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Server Djeparov won the AFC Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2011. Akram Afif won the AFC Player of the Year award in 2019 and 2023. The AFC Player of the Year is an annual prize presented by Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It is awarded to the Asian player who has the best performance at AFC club(s) in a calendar year.
Each juror selects 5 best footballers and awards them 6, 4, 3, 2 points and 1 point respectively from their first choice to the fifth choice (Before 2017, the first-choice was awarded 5 points rather than 6). The trophy of the Best Footballer in Asia is awarded to the player with the highest total of points.
Peizhang Jackson He (Chinese: 何佩璋; pinyin: Hé Pèizhāng) is a Chinese former American football running back. He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils. He became the first Chinese-born player to play for a Power Five conference team when he appeared in a game against the UCLA Bruins on December 5, 2020. [2]
Player of the Year: 1999 Asian Cup top scorer: 1996 Asian Cup All Stars: 1996 Asian All Stars: 1993, 1998, 1999 2014 Myung-bo Hong South Korea: Defender: Man 1992–2004 Asian Cup All Stars: 2000 Asian All Stars: 1993, 1997, 2000 2014 Sami Jaber Saudi Arabia: Forward: Man 1988–2008 — 2014 Harry Kewell Australia: Midfielder Forward: Man 1996 ...
Koo was born on August 3, 1994, in Seoul, South Korea. [5] [6] He played soccer growing up and won a regional kicking competition in South Korea. [7]He moved to the United States when he was 12 years old to live with his mother, who had gone to New Jersey two years earlier to work as a nurse while Koo's father remained in Seoul as a professor at Induk University.
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And yet, in 2019-20, players of Asian descent made up only 0.7% of NCAA Division I women’s basketball players; 0.4% of Division I men’s basketball players; and 0.3% of Division I football players.
AFC Asian Player of the Month: August 1997 [56] AFC Asian Footballer of the Year: 1999; IFFHS World's Top Goal Scorer: 2000 (20 goals) [57] Order of Courage: 2005; Asian Football Hall of Fame: 2014; IFFHS Legends: 2016 [58] AFC Asian Cup Fans' All Time Best XI: 2018 [59] IFFHS Asian Men's Team of the 20th Century: 1901–2000 [60] Iranian ...