Io sono Andriy

A.C. MILAN OFFICIAL

9/29/2023

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00:00 I think that no one can deny me if I say that Shevchenko,

00:04 "Sheva" for all the "Nerazzurri" fans,

00:06 was a complete striker.

00:08 The number of goals scored in his career,

00:10 and in particular those with the Milan jersey,

00:12 testify to that.

00:13 I remember his professionalism,

00:15 his attitude at work, his commitment and the concentration

00:17 he put into everything he did,

00:19 from the pitch to the gym.

00:21 That concentration that he found perhaps his best expression

00:24 when he scored the penalty in the 2003 Champions League final

00:27 against Juventus,

00:28 and the rivalry that he gave the cup to us, the "Rossoneri",

00:31 with his big ears.

00:32 The following year, in 2004,

00:34 Sheva was awarded the Golden Ball,

00:36 which was added to the multitude of trophies

00:38 that the Ukrainian won with the club.

00:41 After his transfer to Chelsea in 2006,

00:43 he returned to Milan two years later.

00:45 I was part of Ancelotti's staff,

00:47 and I remember a Sheva who was out.

00:49 A series of injuries had unfortunately compromised his effectiveness.

00:52 But I, like the entire "Rossoneri" people,

00:55 will always remember him as one of Manchester's heroes,

00:58 and as one of the greatest strikers who were able to light up San Siro

01:01 and exalt the fans.

01:03 The European and world champion Filippo Galli

01:08 was the predecessor, fan and collaborator of Andriy Shevchenko.

01:13 Over the years,

01:15 this is such an important portrait is his birthday present.

01:17 2023 is the year of Andriy Shevchenko's 47th birthday.

01:21 A life that continues in a tumult of strong feelings.

01:25 The first today is for his homeland.

01:27 Sheva does not feel Ukrainian in the sense that once he gave himself the term

01:31 that identified the country of the little Russians

01:33 with that of the great Russians.

01:35 He feels fragilely great Ukrainian.

01:38 And that's it.

01:40 Behind the worried smile of those who think of their homeland at war every minute,

01:43 there has been and there is a lot of football,

01:45 many ups and downs, many emotions.

01:47 He was a fan prodige of a sport as big as the world.

01:50 A virtuoso of the areas of rigor.

01:52 That of Shevchenko is the story of a bad boy

01:55 who at the disco always preferred pizza

01:57 to the rumbling embrace of a sick father.

02:00 As soon as he arrived in Italy in 1999,

02:03 Sheva has always been defined, told and presented

02:06 as a champion in the smell of a golden ball,

02:08 esteemed by the public and the critics,

02:10 to the point of being compared several times

02:12 without this being seen as a heresy

02:14 to the greatest striker of a victorious cycle,

02:17 Marco Van Basten.

02:19 What shoulders were needed,

02:21 what pressure he had to manage.

02:23 A great and wide story of his,

02:26 passed through a narrow crack.

02:28 He had not yet arrived in Milan

02:30 and already the transfer of Shevchenko

02:32 was at risk of skipping.

02:34 The directors of Milan, Adriano Gagliani and Arie Dobraida

02:36 had never gone together to see a player they wanted to take.

02:40 The only time, the first,

02:41 it happened with Andriy

02:43 and it didn't go well.

02:45 In a cold winter evening,

02:47 they went to Kiev to see a Champions League draw.

02:50 Sheva didn't touch the ball.

02:52 He did very little.

02:53 And then Gagliani didn't seem so sure

02:55 to take it at that figure.

02:56 But Braida replied,

02:57 to be calm,

02:58 because he had already been watched several times.

03:00 In the end, he became the second best

03:03 red-black striker after Gunnar Nordahl.

03:05 The first of his 175 goals

03:08 he scored at Lecce, August 1999.

03:11 Emotion, more for the debut in Milan

03:13 than for the final result.

03:15 But still, emotion.

03:16 Definitely a lot.

03:18 Because it was a very difficult game.

03:21 Then, the first game in the league,

03:23 I was able to score immediately.

03:27 When I arrived in Italy,

03:29 I immediately understood that

03:31 goal is important here.

03:34 I was happy.

03:37 But the result,

03:39 I always think about the team's result.

03:41 The result, in my opinion,

03:44 is not positive,

03:45 because we tied.

03:47 Andriy, husband and father,

03:51 grew up in the sign of rigor

03:53 and severity of Colonel Lobanovsky.

03:55 Legendary technical commissioner

03:57 of the Soviet Union

03:58 and inventor of the Dynamo Kiev

04:00 European Super Champion of 1975.

04:03 If in the course of his career

04:05 Sheva was a perfect machine

04:07 from a physical point of view,

04:08 he owes it to him,

04:09 to the inflexible teacher and coach

04:11 of Dynamo Kiev.

04:13 The team of the Ukrainian capital,

04:15 50 meters from its Dvirchyshina.

04:17 Always him, always and only Valery Lobanovsky.

04:20 A firm and immutable authority.

04:22 Then, once arrived in Milan,

04:24 he realized that the coaches

04:26 can also change.

04:27 And in Milan,

04:28 they changed quite often

04:29 in his early years.

04:31 But for Andriy Shevchenko,

04:32 Ukrainian by birth and therefore Milanese

04:34 and Milanese by adoption,

04:35 he has never made a difference.

04:37 Whether it was Alberto Zaccheroni

04:39 or Cesare Maldini,

04:40 Fatih Terim or Carlo Ancelotti.

04:42 He has always listened,

04:44 respected, obeyed and signed.

04:46 Always.

04:47 Starting from that incredible treble

04:48 to that incredible 4-4,

04:49 Lazio-Milan was played

04:51 and the scudetto was on the chest of Milan.

04:53 But the Lazio champions,

04:54 at the end of that championship,

04:55 would have won them.

04:57 4-4, what a game!

04:59 The Shevchenko explosion,

05:00 a treble that almost 25 years later

05:02 the fans have certainly not forgotten.

05:04 This game really showed me

05:07 how I am,

05:09 not only in terms of goals scored,

05:11 but also in terms of performance

05:13 that I did in that game.

05:15 Because I remember

05:17 it was a special day

05:19 because to play against Lazio

05:23 there in Rome,

05:25 after the year

05:27 when Lazio lost the Scudetto,

05:29 I am already a player

05:31 that as soon as I arrived in Milan

05:34 I felt this attitude of the fans,

05:38 of the press,

05:40 of the players themselves

05:42 who were waiting for the game.

05:45 I felt that I was fine,

05:48 I was really prepared

05:50 very well for this game

05:52 and I managed to express,

05:54 I managed to show all the best things

05:56 in that game that I could do.

05:58 It is said, Sheva,

06:00 that he never liked to reflect,

06:02 he always tried to regenerate stimuli,

06:05 objectives, horizons.

06:07 The football of respect and work

06:09 taught him by the colonel

06:11 has always been alive in him,

06:13 so much so that it is correct to conceive him

06:15 historically as a professional

06:17 of the team,

06:18 who managed to live

06:20 both with his indispensable individuality

06:23 and to exalt himself

06:25 with the Milan teammates.

06:27 Education and respect,

06:29 first of all,

06:30 this is what Olbanowski taught him.

06:32 That is why Sheva accepted the verdict of 2003

06:34 when he placed third

06:36 in the race for the Ballon d'Or,

06:38 after Pavel Nedved and Paolo Maldini.

06:40 A sobriety and a wait

06:42 then rewarded in 2004

06:44 when he found the right move

06:46 towards the preferences of the greatest European critics.

06:49 Telling Sheva in the important moments

06:51 of his life like a birthday

06:53 also means telling the story of a land,

06:56 that Ukraine,

06:57 has offended several times,

06:59 that despite its wounds

07:01 can continue to mirror in the gentle eyes

07:03 of a wise champion.

07:04 And about Lobanovski,

07:06 the great master,

07:07 Sheva does not run away

07:08 that Valery's last breath

07:10 was just in Zaporizhia,

07:12 just a few steps from that nuclear power plant

07:14 that held the world

07:15 with a sigh for many months.

07:17 It is also for this reason

07:19 that Andriy will never stop throbbing

07:21 and fighting for his threatened and invaded land.

07:25 "It is a continuous snake"

07:27 Sheva said,

07:28 "between the magic of his goals

07:29 and the anguish of his people".

07:31 Space, for the moment,

07:32 then, to magic.

07:33 Two of his best goals in Milan

07:34 were scored in the same way,

07:36 Slalom between the opposing defenders

07:37 and unstoppable shot,

07:38 against Udinese in 2001

07:40 and against Lecce in 2003,

07:42 always at San Siro.

07:43 I think it is a goal that characterizes

07:45 my technical things so much,

07:50 because if we see records

07:52 of goals I scored in Dinamo,

07:54 we find many goals like this.

07:57 A goal that I like a lot,

07:59 a dribbling,

08:01 something of power,

08:03 of strength,

08:04 with a touch of precision.

08:06 2002, as a solar year,

08:08 was the most difficult.

08:09 He had to grow,

08:10 he couldn't do it,

08:11 his coach Carlo Ancelotti

08:12 asked him new things,

08:13 there was the wind of competition

08:15 and the Ukrainian grass was like

08:17 it was blocked.

08:18 The last months of the season

08:20 2001-2002

08:21 and the first months of the season

08:23 2002-2003

08:24 were few goals

08:25 and some exclusions

08:26 from the team from the first minute.

08:28 Against Real Madrid of the Galacticos,

08:30 Sheva scored then.

08:31 In November 2002, Milan won,

08:33 great night of the Champions League,

08:35 but he confessed candidly

08:36 "When I don't play,

08:37 I accept the decisions with my head,

08:39 but I can't do it with my heart".

08:41 Honest admission,

08:42 no controversy.

08:43 I am an honest person,

08:45 what I feel I can't hide from anyone.

08:49 It was seen so much that I suffered so much

08:52 in that moment that I didn't play.

08:54 I knew why I didn't play,

08:56 because after a long injury

08:58 it's difficult to get in better shape.

09:01 As a team I had important games

09:04 and I couldn't always play,

09:09 I knew it,

09:10 but my heart couldn't accept this

09:13 because I always wanted to play

09:15 and I was telling the truth.

09:18 As his wife Kristen knows

09:20 and as his sons Jordan, Alexander and Ryder know,

09:23 Andriy won everything he could win

09:25 at the club level,

09:26 World title excluded.

09:28 He celebrated, he rejoiced,

09:29 he raised trophies

09:30 and received awards.

09:32 But Sheva knows

09:33 that football doesn't always have the same face.

09:35 He generously grants and takes away mercilessly.

09:39 Sheva knows,

09:40 today, in his mature age,

09:41 many congratulations Andriy,

09:43 that the cycles are always very different between them.

09:46 He met two Istanbul,

09:48 the 1999 one,

09:50 with Milan eliminated in the same evening

09:52 by the Champions League and UEFA Cup,

09:54 and the 2005 one, against Liverpool.

09:57 "This is a sport called football,

09:59 it's done like this",

10:00 Andriy said,

10:01 immediately after the 3-3 with Liverpool

10:03 and the relative penalties.

10:04 The same sense of the relative

10:06 that two years earlier

10:07 had allowed him to come out of the negative moment

10:09 and to score,

10:10 as he had never done before,

10:12 including the decisive goal

10:14 in the final of the Champions League in Manchester.

10:16 "In football, it's always like this,

10:18 there are moments

10:20 when everything becomes easy,

10:22 moments when you really need to

10:25 give everything

10:27 and show yourself.

10:28 I think that moment

10:30 was a positive moment for the team,

10:33 because everyone was fine

10:35 and we started well.

10:37 It was our luck

10:39 that we played all the games

10:41 in the Champions League

10:43 and we showed great character,

10:45 even when things didn't go well.

10:48 You could see a lot of teams on the pitch

10:51 and that's why we won,

10:54 I think it's an important thing.

10:56 We let the league go,

11:01 also because we understood

11:03 that we couldn't...

11:05 we lost too many points,

11:07 especially, I think,

11:09 because of the tension

11:11 and because we spent a lot of energy

11:13 for the Champions League games

11:15 and we couldn't get three points

11:17 with a small team

11:19 that we needed so much

11:21 in every game

11:23 to be able to fight for the Scudetto.

11:25 [Music]

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