Former Dynamo Kyiv and AC Milan soccer great Andriy Shevchenko received certification to become a soccer coach on Nov. 8, Ukraine’s football federation announced.
He can now coach lower league teams and has the right to become an
assistant head coach in the nation’s premier league. He along with 24 others completed
training courses that lasted from April 1 to Nov. 8 to receive an A diploma
given by UEFA, Europe’s top soccer governing body.
To become head coach in the premier league, a UEFA PRO diploma is required.
The 37-year-old’s illustrious career spanned 15 years, and included spells
with Dynamo Kyiv, AC Milan and Chelsea. He was a feared striker who won soccer’s
most prestigious individual award, the Ballon d’Or, in 2004, and won the
European continent’s most prized club tournament, the Champions League, with AC
Milan in 2003.
He led Ukraine to the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and
finished his career with his first club, Dynamo Kyiv, in 2012 before
unsuccessfully running for parliament later that year.
Kyiv Post
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