Former European Footballer of the Year Andriy Shevchenko has agreed to rejoin Dynamo Kiev from Chelsea.

"Shevchenko has signed a two-year contract," the Ukrainian club said on their website yesterday.

Kiev added the 32-year-old Ukraine striker would be presented as their player today.

On Friday, Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti said he could not guarantee Shevchenko first-team football.

"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 he has taken the right decision (to move)," Ancelotti said.

Shevchenko never justified the club record £30 million fee that Chelsea paid Milan for him in 2006. He scored only nine league goals in his first two campaigns and was loaned back to the Italian team last season.

With Ukraine still in with a chance of qualifying for next year's World Cup, the 2004 European Footballer of the Year faced a season on the fringes at Chelsea.

Shevchenko, who left Kiev for Milan in 1999, was also in danger of being left out of the London club's Champions League squad when it is named on Tuesday.

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