Ballon 'd'or winner in 2004,the fourth-highest scorer in the history of European club competition with 61 goals,and my favourite player.
There was a time when he was counted among the best strikers in the world,and that was not too long ago,he was right up there with the likes of ronaldo(the brazilian one),thierry henry ; and his mere inclusion in the starting eleven gave the oppositions' defenders sleepless nights.He was the serie a top scorer twice over,voted as UEFA's best forward at one time,he also made his way into FIFA 100 by Pele,and i can go on like this on and on but the fact is now,he isn't even a mere shadow of what he used to be.Many Sheva fans believe that his move to Chelsea was where it all started to go wrong for sheva.It was definitely Jose mourinho's ego that hindered Sheva's settling into the chelsea team,Sheva was made to feel alienated and a foreigner even among his own team-mates.This clubbed with the dearth of playing time that he was afforded was what eventually got to him,in fact can get to any player no matter how gifted and talented he might be.I couldn't understand why he was not playing even though he was definitely far more superior than Drogba and Pizarro and co.Now if anyone saw the goal that he scored in the FA cup against Tottenham he would realise that this was a player of a sheer quality,and to whose quality justice was not being done,and very wrongly so.Oh how i wonder how different everything could have played out if Jose kept his Ego aside and had gone by true talent and quality,he did his best to alienate players like Sheva and Ballack,and partly succeeded in that.He left Chelsea in a very bad state when he and chelsea mutually parted ways, had it not been for the ingeniousness of Avram grant chelsea would have had a torrid season.But damage had been done and Sheva was no longer the player he used to be.
Next season he returned to MIlan so that he may regain his form and his deft touch,i had high hopes from him and felt that at Milan he would definitely be afforded some decent amount ofplaying time but this was also not to be,and another season went down the drain and now i was sure that Sheva is no longer even half the player he used to be.Then he returned to chelsea this season with doubts and speculations already debilitating him even before he kicked a ball.
I thought he oughtta retire from football so has to save himself some grace that could still be his due to his past performances.But i'm quite happy that he did'nt do that and the fighter that he is,he has moved to his old hunting ground at Dynamo Kyiv.
To be honest i don't expect too much from him because i've already been proven wrong twice over(first his transfer to chelsea and then his loan move to Milan both ended in a disaster fotr his career).But i'd want him to score and score some more especially in the Champions League even though their group is tough one,i want Sheva to take his team once again to the semi finals just like he did some 10-11 years ago.I'm praying this time and i'm writing these last lines with tears in my eyes because i want him to succeed and i want it so much that i can't describe it.I want him to be counted once again with the elite in world football and i want him to etch his name in the history books of football forever.Oh i want it so sooooo much.
Now he begins his new tryst with destiny and i hope he proves his detractors wrong , and especially score against Jose mourinho's Inter.
FROZA SHEVA FOREVER.
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