Ukraine star Shevchenko, who joined the English Premiership champions from AC Milan for 30 million pounds (55 million dollars) in May, knows exactly what it takes to win Europe's leading club competition after helping Milan to success in the 2003 edition.

The former Dynamo Kiev player also played in the 2005 final, when Milan were beaten by Liverpool on penalties, and believes Chelsea are perfectly equipped to win the tournment.

Shevchenko told Chelsea's website: "As a player my objective is always the same. My team comes first. I have the same objectives as the team. They have won the league and I would like to help the team to win the Champions League.

"Chelsea have been consistently wanting me for the past three years and I wanted to play for a club with great champions, great organisation, great management and Chelsea was the one I chose.

"When you put all those things together you come up with one objective, which is to win. You can really only see at the end of the year how things work out but I feel the team has the quality."

Jose Mourinho's side were beaten in the Champions League second round by eventual winners Barcelona last season, and had lost at the semi-final stage in the previous two seasons.

Mourinho, who won the competition with Porto in 2005, brought in Shevchenko to provide the cutting edge Chelsea have lacked at times in Europe.

Shevchenko is training with his new teammates in Los Angeles as they prepare for Saturday's friendly match against the MLS All-stars.

He added: "They are great players and a great group. I felt there was a real togetherness in the team. Everyone has accepted me really well.

"This change in clubs has only helped increase my motivation. It has only been one training session but it is a good style, a little different to what they do at Milan, but you are talking about two good styles for training and for me it only helps motivate me."