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DONETSK - A six year old boy, whose joyful celebration of an Andriy Shevchenko's winning goal for Ukraine against Sweden became an online hit, has been rewarded with chance to meet his heroes.

Television pictures captured six-year-old Tymur Shamanov‘s
wide-eyed and open-mouthed delight at Shevchenko’s goal and the
images quickly found their way on to websites.

Shamanov visited the team at their training camp in Kyiv on
June 13 and was handed a shirt by Shevchenko and other
players.

“This boy came to us, we gave him a shirt. We are very glad
that we have supporters like this – maybe one day he will play
for the team,” midfielder Serhiy Nazarenko told reporters ahead
of the second Group D game against France on June 15.