Early Life
Shevchenko was born in the family of praporshchik Mykola Hryhorovych Shevchenko in 1976. In 1979 his family moved to the newly built neighborhood in Kiev - Obolon (Minsk District was created in 1975). In Kiev Shevchenko went to the 216th City School and in 1986 (aged 9) enrolled into football section coached by Oleksandr Shpakov. Because of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, together with his sport group he was evacuated temporarily from the city. At an early age, he also was a competitive boxer in the LLWI Ukrainian junior league, but eventually he elected to move on to football.
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