Shevchenko was named coach of the Ukraine national team in July 2016 following their disappointing Euro 2016 campaign and the hitman enjoyed a decorated career in European football, most notably with AC Milan.
The striker, who turns 40, won the Champions League with the San Siro giants in 2003 and Ballon d’Or in 2004 – and netted a total of 175 goals in 322 appearances for the Rossoneri in two separate spells.
In 2006, Shevchenko joined Chelsea in a big-money £30m deal but failed to reproduce the form he showed in Serie A at the west London club.
He netted just nine Premier League goals in two seasons at the Stamford Bridge club before being shipped back to Milan.
Sheva then ended his career with boyhood club Dynamo Kyiv – the place where it all started for him.
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1934: Lance Gibbs – former West Indies off-spinner (82).
1941: David Steele – former Northamptonshire and England batsman (75).
1955: Gareth Davies – former Wales captain and fly-half (61).
1956: Lord Sebastian Coe – Olympic 1,500 metres champion in 1980 and 1984, chairman of the London 2012 Olympic Games organising committee and currently president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (59).
1957: Chris Broad – former England and Nottinghamshire batsman, now an International Cricket Council referee (58).
1957: Mark Nicholas – former Hampshire captain, now a broadcaster and writer (58).
1976: Kelvin Davis – former Southampton, Ipswich, Luton, Wimbledon and Sunderland goalkeeper (40).
1980: Michael Carberry – Hampshire opener who made his Test debut for England in March 2010 (35).
1981: Rikki Clarke – former England all-rounder who plays for Warwickshire (34).
1982: Amy Williams – gold medallist at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (33).
1984: Per Mertesacker – Germany and Arsenal defender (31).
