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Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine)

Ukraine’s campaign is only one victory old. But “Sheva” is back — and it seems not even a post-match shunt is going to stop him at Euro 2012. After scoring both goals in his side’s 2-1 victory over Sweden, Andriy Shevchenko was involved in an automobile accident — but fortunately for the co-hosts neither he nor his wife were injured. Shevchenko’s car was rammed in the back by an SUV in the early hours as the couple was waiting at an pedestrian intersection in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. The moment of Andriy Shevchenko’s return as a striker properly to be feared arguably came shortly after the 62nd minute of the match on Monday evening, when the Ukrainian steered in a surgically-precise header to give the home team a 2-1 win. Kiev’s Olympic Stadium took up a chant that had last been heard in its walls in the late 1990s, when a then precocious Shevchenko was still playing for Dynamo Kiev and his glory days AC Milan and Chelsea still lay years before him. For months Shevchenko’s seemingly endless health complaints had prevented him from managing the pace and consistency necessary even for the low standards of Ukraine domestic league, and many leading sports publications in the country had declared him too old and injured to take the field for the national team. But not now. — Agencies