Sheva to quit Chelsea for regular football

Andriy Shevchenko will quit Chelsea by the end of the month because the London side cannot guarantee him regular first-team football, Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti said yesterday.

The Ukraine striker and former European Footballer of the Year, who turns 33 on Saturday, has been linked with a return to former club Dynamo Kiev but no deal had been struck with any club yet.

"Shevchenko will decide to go play for another team," said the Italian, who coached the Ukraine captain last season at Milan where the striker was on loan from Chelsea.

"He will take this decision; it is not our problem to choose the team right for him," Ancelotti said after a training session for today's Premier League game against promoted Burnley at Stamford Bridge.

"I spoke with Shevchenko and he would like to play with continuity here. For me it is difficult to give him this possibility and I think that he has taken the right decision."

The Ukraine captain was in Kiev yesterday to talk to his former club Dynamo, local media reported.

"I've said it many times it was my dream to bring Andriy," Dynamo president Ihor Surkis said. "There's a good chance that he will join us but nothing has been agreed just yet."