Shevchenko seals Milan homecoming

AC Milan will hope for another goal rush from Andriy Shevchenko after re-signing the 31-year-old Ukraine forward from Chelsea FC for an undisclosed fee.

Homeward bound
No details of the contract signed by Shevchenko have been revealed, but Milan director Adriano Galliani said the Rossoneri were delighted to welcome back a striker who scored 127 goals in 208 Serie A games while at the San Siro between 1999 and 2006. "We have brought home the player who scored more goals than any other in our shirt over the last 50 years," Galliani said. 'Sheva' himself said the move felt as good as winning the UEFA Champions League.

Glory days
Chelsea had announced on their website at the weekend an agreement for the transfer of Shevchenko, whose initial seven seasons with Milan yielded a vintage crop of one Scudetto, one Coppa Italia, the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League title, the 2003 UEFA Super Cup and, on a personal level, the Ballon d'Or for European footballer of the year in 2004. However, the one-time FC Dynamo Kyiv prodigy failed to reproduce that form in a Chelsea shirt, registering only nine Premier League goals in 47 matches.

Recruitment drive
Shevchenko follows Ronaldinho, Gianluca Zambrotta, Marco Borriello and Mathieu Flamini in signing for the Rossoneri this summer. Carlo Ancelotti's team start their European campaign in the UEFA Cup first round as a result of their fifth-place finish in Serie A last term.