Andriy Shevchenko, on the eve of the presentation of the main individual award of the year - the "Golden Ball", gave an interview to PROsport magazine, in which he stated in particular: "Yes, I have heard and read that Shevchenko is supposedly the best this year. But let others judge that, not me. I am not one of those who shouts about their merits at every corner. I know what I am worth in football, and I simply try to do my job as well as possible - in every game. The 'Golden Ball' would be the best evidence of what I have achieved in football, from the very first kick of the ball in my life to this day. \n\nShevchenko named his head as his strongest quality - his "ability not to stop before obstacles. If something stands in my way, I always find the strength, options and ways to overcome it. Unlike many footballers from the former USSR, I never gave up, never let my hands drop." \n\nTo the question of why Shevchenko named his newborn son Jordan, Andriy answered as follows: "I wanted my son to have an Anglo-Saxon name. I didn't even think of naming my son Oleksiy or Volodymyr. My wife is American, and it was much easier for me to enter the culture than for her - into mine. I want my son to become a citizen of the world, raised in different cultures and to speak confidently in Russian, English, and Italian."\n\nwww.sports.ru\n\nP.S. A lot has been said about Andriy Shevchenko's patriotism as a citizen of Ukraine, let's leave that to his conscience. Something else is surprising. In various interviews with foreign publications, Shevchenko constantly emphasizes that his favorite poet is Taras Shevchenko. From the current excerpts of the forward's interview it becomes clear that Ukrainian culture for Shevchenko, who lived in Kyiv for 19 years, is too complicated, and knowledge of the Ukrainian language is not obligatory for his descendant. Although Shevchenko himself speaks Ukrainian as if it were a foreign language, but that is already a completely different story…