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“My role does not change, I am a freelance advisor and I will continue to do what I have always done: help my country, Ukraine, as much as I can”: said Andry Shevchenko, before taking to the golf green for the All Star Match preceding the Ryder Cup, comments to ANSA on his appointment as freelance advisor to the president of Ukraine, Zelensky.
Andry Shevchenko, golf
The former Ukrainian striker is at Marco Simone in Guidonia where he will soon take part in the exhibition match, one of the events of the Ryder Cup. Andrij Mykolajovyč Ševčenko is a Ukrainian football manager and former footballer, playing as a forward.
Considered one of the strongest and most complete strikers of all times, [1] [2] he made his debut in Dynamo Kiev, with which he won five Ukrainian championships and three national cups. In 1999 he joined Milan, where he played for seven seasons, winning a scudetto, a European Super Cup, an Italian Super Cup, a UEFA Champions League and an Italian Cup.
In 2006 he was purchased by Chelsea, with whom he won an FA Cup and an English League Cup. In the summer of 2008 he returned to Milan on a one-year loan. Upon returning to Chelsea, he terminated his contract with the English to return to Dynamo Kiev, with whom he won a Ukrainian Super Cup in three years.
With the Ukrainian national team he participated in the 2006 world championship and the 2012 European championship played at home, at the end of which he retired from competitive activity. He won the Ballon d’Or in 2004 (after finishing third in the 1999 and 2000 editions) and in the same year he was included by Pelé in the FIFA 100, list of the 125 best living footballers.
With 67 goals in 143 games, he occupies seventh place respectively in the ranking of scorers in UEFA club competitions and eleventh in that of players with the most appearances. With 111 matches played and 48 goals scored, he is the second player with the most appearances for the Ukrainian national team after Anatoly Tymoshchuk and the first in terms of goals scored.
[3] [4] He is also second in the ranking of the best scorers in the history of Milan, after Gunnar Nordahl, and fifth in that of the best scorers in the history of Dynamo Kiev; with Milan he scored 14 goals in the derbies against Inter, becoming the best scorer in the history of the derby.
