LIST OF CONTENDERS FOR AFC PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2008 (in alphabetical order; list as of today) 1. Ala’a Hubail (Bahrain and Al Kuwait – Kuwait) 2. Ahmad Ajab (Kuwait and Al Qadsiya – Kuwait) 3. Aleksandar Duric (Singapore and Singapore Armed Forces FC – Singapore) 4. Ebrahim Sadeghi (Iran and Saipa – Iran) 5. Fabio Cesar (Qatar and Umm Salal – Qatar) 6. Hawar Mullah Mohamed (Iraq and Al Khor – Qatar) 7. Indra Sahdan Daud (Singapore and Home United – Singapore) 8. Ki-hyeon Seol (Korea Republic and Fulham – England) 9. Mark Bresciano (Australia and Palermo – Italy) 10. Mark Schwarzer (Australia and Middlesbrough – England) 11. Mohamad Alhamwi (Syria and Al Karama – Syria) 12. Mohammad Shahril Ishak (Singapore and Home United – Singapore) 13. Mosab Balhous (Syria and Al Karama – Syria) 14. Rashid Saleem (Bahrain and Al Najma – Bahrain) 15. Salih Sader (Iraq and Al Ansar – Lebanon) 16. Mohamed Salmeen (Bahrain and Al Muharraq – Bahrain) 17. Timur Kapadze (Uzbekistan and Kuruvchi – Uzbekistan) 18. Ulugbek Bakaev (Uzbekistan and Kuruvchi – Uzbekistan) 19. Yong-jo Hong (DPRK and FK Bezanija – Serbia) 20. Young-pyo Lee (Korea Republic and Tottenham Hotspur – England) 21. Yuji Nakazawa (Japan and Yokohama F Marinos – Japan)
********ING ARAB FOOTBALL CONFEDERATION!! What a ********ing joke!!!!!!!!! No park? and not that iranian players have done anything this year but only one?and Sadeghi wtf 3 ********ING BAHRAINIES ARE YOU JOKING? This is shit And mark my words! the worst arab player on this list will get the award what else can you expect from the ARAB football confederation ,********ing douche bags
I would also like to agree that the AFC is extremely amateurish not giving the player of the year to the actual player of the year. I could've vomited when Tim Cahill didn't get it in 2006 and even more when Nakamura was beaten last year. It's a total joke.
And Park Ji-sung in 2005 when he won the double in Holland with PSV and led the club to the semifinals of the Champions League that year. (And scored a goal against Milan) This award has been a joke for quite some time now. Neither Seol Ki-hyeon nor Lee Young-pyo deserves to be on that list. They've done absolutely nothing this year. Some of our top players in K-League would've been better nominees.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHA I am pretty sure Park is better than this guy;whoever the ******** he is: 12. Mohammad Shahril Ishak (Singapore and Home United – Singapore) lol
Only 4 months passed and they already announced the 2008 AFC Player of the Year's final list? I don't think this is the final list, those players probably have 10 or 20 points that's why they are on the list, just wait until December.
hmm.. I have no Idea why you pissed off, I mean only 8 players from the list are Arab and 98% of them have no chance to win it, Actually they have no threat to the other Asian players. I'm happy to see European based players on the list, this is a good start.
I'm outraged. More Singaporean players than Chinese?! Lol.. kidding But its still a joke list. Who has ever taken this thing seriously after they decided not to seriously consider European players?
MARK MY WORDS!!! An arab is gonna win this! They did not include Nakamura and Park so that they can easily choose between Bahrain and ...
That's true; but when they put a Bangladeshi player instead of Park or Naka be sure that they are not even watching Shatskikh. ********in afc
why the hell Nakazawa in that list? I am not saying he has not done anything, if they had to include one player from Japan, they had much better option...