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KIEV, May 30: AC Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko has been awarded Ukraine’s ‘Merited Master of Sports’ honour by the country’s State Sports Committee, it was announced on Friday.
Shevchenko scored the decisive penalty in a shootout to give Milan a 3-2 victory over rival Italians Juventus in Wednesday’s Champions League final.
“The Merited Master of Sports” is Ukraine’s highest sports honour, a legacy from the Soviet era usually presented to Olympic or world champions.
The Dynamo Kiev teams which won the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1975 and 1986 were the last Ukrainian footballers to receive this honour.—Reuters
