Al Sadd forward Afif won the award for the 2nd time after leading Qatar to the AFC Asian Cup title at home in 2023.
Published On 29 Oct 2024
Qatar’s Akram Afif hasactually been called the Asian Football Confederation’s Player of the Year for a 2nd time, along with Kiko Seike from Japan, who protected the females’s title at the local body’s yearly awards event in Seoul.
Afif, who had formerly won the award in 2019, was provided with the prize following his critical efficiencies in Qatar’s effective defence of their Asian Cup title on home soil earlier in the year.
“I’m worried like I’m about to take a charge in the last,” Afif stated as he accepted the award on Monday.
“I thank my spouse and all the nationwide group members, coaches, administrators and medical group.
“I will attempt onceagain to win this award for a 3rd time.”
In February, the 27-year-old Al Sadd forward endedupbeing the veryfirst gamer to rating a hat-trick in the Asian Cup last and netted 8 times throughout the competition to safe the award ahead of Jordan’s Yazan Al-Naimat and South Korean Seol Young-woo.
Afif is just the 3rd gamer to win the prize numerous times, following Japan’s Hidetoshi Nakata, who won in 1997 and 1998, and Server Djeparov of Uzbekistan, who won in 2008 and 2011.
Seike issuccessful Australia’s Sam Kerr to win the ladies’s award ahead of Australia’s Cortnee Vine and Kim Hye-ri of South Korea and is the 4th Japanese gamer to cla