KIEV - Former European Footballer of the Year Andriy
Shevchenko has agreed to rejoin Dynamo Kiev from
Chelsea.
"Shevchenko has signed a two-year contract," the Ukrainian club
said on their website on Saturday.
Kiev added the 32-year-old Ukraine striker would be presented as
their player on Sunday.
On Friday, Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti said he could not
guarantee Shevchenko first-team football.
"I spoke with Shevchenko and he would like to play with
continuity here. For me it is difficult to give him this
possibility and I think he has taken the right decision (to move),"
Ancelotti said.
Shevchenko never justified the club record 30 million pounds fee
that Chelsea paid AC Milan for him in 2006. He scored only nine
league goals in his first two campaigns and was loaned back to the
Italian team last season.
With Ukraine still in with a chance of qualifying for next
year's World Cup, the 2004 European Footballer of the Year faced a
season on the fringes at Chelsea.
Shevchenko, who left Kiev for Milan in 1999, was also in danger
of being left out of the London club's Champions League squad when
it is named on Tuesday.
The Ukraine captain is one of the leading scorers in the
Champions League and will get a chance to add to his tally of goals
with Kiev, who have been drawn in Group F with holders Barcelona,
Inter Milan and Rubin Kazan.
They got his name spelled wrongly...
