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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.
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 ...
He is the youngest player to ever reach 100 international caps in the world at 24 years and 35 days, [note 1] and the all-time leading goalscorer of the South Korean national team with 58 goals. After dominating Asian competitions including the 1978 Asian Games , he left for West Germany and played for Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen .
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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.
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 ...
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