Shevchenko goes into politics.
Andriy Shevchenko, first among goal scorers in his part of the world, is leaving soccer to become a politician. He gave Ukraine a victory over Sweden with two sharp, superbly angled headers in Kiev during the Euro 2012 tournament last month. But those goals — taking him to 48 in 111 national team appearances — were the last of a career that made him one of the best, and richest, strikers of his time. The mind, as we saw in Kiev, was still sharp. But the body was telling him to go before he deteriorated further still. His back was aching, his thigh was strained. And after he suffered a kick to his knee, not even Shevchenko could lift Ukraine to another victory. So what does a revered former player, one enriched by his moves to Milan and to Chelsea and then back to his first club, Kiev, do with the rest of his life? “Probably I will shock all of you,” Shevchenko announced via the Dynamo Kiev club Web site. “My future will not be linked to football in any way. It will be linke