On August 29, 1999, the Serie A of the Italian Champions begins. Milan plays at the Via del Mare for the first match of the new season, against Lecce. The year before, Zaccheroni’s gang had won the Scudetto in Perugia, but now there is a big change in attack. In the center is Andriy Shevchenko, a Ukrainian striker who with the Dinamo Kiev jersey had scored a hat-trick in 44 minutes, with Rebrov who had then put the exclamation point on the 0-4 victory at the Camp Nou, against Barcelona.
It’s Sheva’s first matchwho would play 321 more times for Milan. With 175 goals scored, a Golden Ball and the Champions League victory in 2003. Weah broke the deadlock in the second half, then Savino equalised halfway through the second half. A few minutes later, it was Shevchenko who put Milan back in the lead: an action by the usual Weah, the ball passed to Bierhoff who headed it in for the Ukrainian to score the 2-1. In the end it was a draw, with the Giallorossi doing well to equalise in the final minutes.
Shevchenko arrived from Dynamo Kiev for 41 billion lire. A significant figure considering that only two years earlier Ronaldo had cost 48 billion. However, Sheva will make history with Milan, both in Serie A and in Europe.