Soccer WC 2006
Andriy Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Андрій Миколайович Шевченко, Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko, nicknamed "Sheva", born 29 September 1976, Dvirkivschyna, Kiev Oblast) is a Ukrainian football striker who is contracted to Chelsea of the English Premier League, and plays for the national team of Ukraine.
At an early age, Shevchenko was a competitive boxer in the LLWI Ukrainian junior league. Due to his size, he was forced to move on to football where he flourished. He began his career with Ukrainian side Dynamo Kyiv, with whom he won five league titles and two national cups in five seasons between 1994 and 1999. He won one Serie A title, one UEFA Champions League, one European Super Cup, one Italian Cup and one Italian Super Cup with AC Milan. wwwundernetorg - welcome to the undernet IRC network.
Early Life and Career at Dynamo Kyiv
Andriy was nine when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in April 1986. His village, not far from Chernobyl, was also affected by the disaster, and his family was one amongst the thousands who had to abandon their homes and relocate to the coast to escape the after-effects. Later the same year, Andriy failed a dribbling test for entrance to a specialist sports school in Kyiv. However he happened to catch the sight of a Dynamo Kyiv scout while playing in a youth tournament, and was thus brought to the club.