October 30 – Qatar’s Akram Afif and Japanese star Kiko Seike have been topped the AFC males’s and ladies’s gamers of the yr at a glitzy award ceremony on Tuesday evening in South Korea.
Afif led Qatar to the Asian Cup title in February and completed the match as high scorer with eight targets, together with three penalty strikes within the closing towards Jordan. He additionally received the AFC award in 2019.
Afif was introduced with the trophy after his performances had been instrumental in Qatar’s profitable defence of their Asian Cup title on residence soil earlier within the yr. He was additionally instrumental in Al Sadd SC’s double-winning home marketing campaign, starring with 26 targets and 11 assists in 22 league video games.
He joins Japan’s Hidetoshi Nakata and Server Djeparov of Uzbekistan as the one gamers to win accolade twice.
“In fact I’m pleased with myself and what I did, however I would like extra,” he mentioned. “Everybody desires extra, everybody desires to be higher than yesterday, so I wish to be the primary one to do it 3 times.”
Seike took the ladies’s prize after serving to the Urawa Purple Diamonds Women win a second straight Japanese league title, setting a file for targets scored in a single season.
She additionally scored seven extra instances as Urawa received the AFC Girls’s Membership Championship in 2023 and likewise featured for the Nadeshiko on the Girls’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023, earlier than serving to them qualify for the Olympic Video games.
She signed for Brighton in England in July.
The lads’s AFC Coach of the Yr honour went to Japan’s Go Oiwa, who guided Japan to a second AFC U23 Asian Cup in Could, making him the primary two-time winner of the award having beforehand received it in 2018 with Kashima Antlers.
South Korea’s Park Youn-jeong received the ladies’s equal. She is the youngest ever head coach to take the reins of a South Korean nationwide crew at any age group along with her appointment to the U20 girls’s aspect in 2023, and taking them to the U-20 Girls’s World Cup Colombia 2024.
Iran star Saeid Ahmad Abbasi picked up the AFC Futsal Participant of the Yr prize after shining on the AFC Futsal Asian Cup Thailand 2024, the place he was named the match’s Most Invaluable Participant and Yili Prime Scorer.
Australia’s Ellie Carpenter turned the inaugural recipient of the AFC Asian Worldwide Participant of the Yr (Girls) accolade, edging fellow nominee Yui Hasegawa of Japan to the highest prize.
FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, was given the honorary Diamond of Asia Award. One hopes he took away extra than simply the diamonds with this award. His shut allies the Qatar Soccer Affiliation have been honoured with the AFC Asian Cup Host Appreciation Award, whereas the Saudi Arabian Soccer Federation acquired the AFC President’s Recognition Award for Excellent Contribution.
AFC Annual Awards Seoul 2023 Roll of Honour:
AFC Diamond of Asia
Gianni Infantino
AFC Asian Cup Host Appreciation Award
Qatar Soccer Affiliation
AFC President’s Recognition Award for Excellent Contribution
Saudi Arabian Soccer Federation
AFC Member Affiliation of the Yr
Platinum: Japan Soccer Affiliation
Diamond: The Soccer Affiliation of Thailand
Gold: All Nepal Soccer Affiliation
Ruby: Lao Soccer Federation
AFC Regional Affiliation of the Yr
Central Asian Soccer Affiliation
AFC President’s Recognition Awards for Grassroots Soccer
Gold: Soccer Australia
Silver: All India Soccer Federation
Bronze: Vietnam Soccer Federation
AFC Coach of the Yr (Girls)
Park Youn-jeong (Korea Republic Girls U20 and KOR)
AFC Coach of the Yr (Males)
Go Oiwa (Japan U23 and JPN)
AFC Futsal Participant of the Yr
Saeid Ahmad Abbasi (IRN)
AFC Girls’s Participant of the Yr
Kiko Seike (Urawa Purple Diamonds Women/Brighton & Hove Albion and JPN)
AFC Participant of the Yr
Akram Afif (Al Sadd SC and QAT)
AFC Asian Worldwide Participant of the Yr (Girls)
Ellie Carpenter (Olympique Lyonnais and AUS)
AFC Asian Worldwide Participant of the Yr (Males)
Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur and KOR)
AFC Youth Participant of the Yr (Girls)
Chae Un Yong (Wolmido SC and PRK)
AFC Youth Participant of the Yr (Males)
Abbosbek Fayzullaev (CSKA Moscow and UZB)
AFC Referees Particular Award
Yuichi Hatano (JPN)
Turki’ Abdullah Al Salehi (OMA)
Ibrahim Yousif Al Raeesi (UAE)
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