Ukraine’s Andriy Yarmolenko. Reuters
KIEV: Andriy Shevchenko’s retirement after Euro 2012 left a huge void in Ukrainian football and it has taken time for the younger generation to throw up a new leader.
Step forward Andriy Yarmolenko, whose 22 goals have established him as the player most likely to fill the role a full decade after he was saddled with the tag of the “new Shevchenko”.
Back in 2006, Dynamo’s former head coach, Anatoliy Demyanenko, told a news conference that the club’s scouts had found “a new Shevchenko within 130 kilometres of Kiev”, without saying who it was.
The secrecy led to jokes from …read more
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