Political Career
After his retirement in June 2012 Shevchenko immediately joined Ukraine – Forward! and took second place on the party list for the October 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. This despite he had stated a month earlier he wanted to coach after his playing career, “This is the world I understand, the world I want to stay in.” In the election his party won 1.58% of the national votes and no constituencies and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.
In the late 1990s, Shevchenko and other teammates of Dynamo Kyiv publicly backed the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united). During the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election Shevchenko publicly endorsed candidate Viktor Yanukovich.
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