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Article: Sheva: 'I believe in Jose' ; THE CHELSEA ENIGMA. Owner's favourite player is determined to earn respect and win over candid manager
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 10, 2006
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Not so long ago, Andriy Shevchenko was the original Chelsea
"untouchable". Try as he might - and he tried mightily - Roman
Abramovich couldn't prise his friend and favourite player away from
Milan.
That all changed last summer, when an offer of [pound]30.8
million for a striker nearing his 30th birthday, and with his
American wife, the model Kirsten Pazik, desperate to move to London
to raise their children, proved irresistible. Shevchenko asked to go
and the Italians relented.
It has not been the happiest of moves and, on Friday morning,
Shevchenko woke up to headlines telling him he did not feature among
an elite of eight Chelsea players named by the manager, Jose
Mourinho. They were his ...