{"id":16374,"date":"2013-11-15T04:43:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T12:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16374"},"modified":"2013-11-15T07:44:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:44:52","slug":"afc-annual-awards-2013-nominees-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/11\/15\/afc-annual-awards-2013-nominees-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Annual Awards 2013: nominees announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>AFC has announced the list of nominees for the 2013 AFC Player of the Year award on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran and Esteghlal ace Javad Nekonam, AFC Champions League winners Guangzhou Evergrande captain Zheng Zhi (China) and Ha Dae Sung (Korea Republic; FC Seoul) are in contention for the topmost AFC Player of the Year accolade.<\/p>\n<p>Guangzhou Evergrande&#8217;s Brazilian import Luiz Guilherme Da Conceicao (Muriqui), who won the AFC Champions League&#8217;s Most Valuable Player and Top Goalscorer awards, will be vying with his teammate Dario Leonardo Conca (Argentina) and FC Seoul&#8217;s Motenegro ace Dejan Damjanovic for the AFC Foreign Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>Yuto Nagatomo (Japan; Inter Milan), Son Heung-min (Korea Republic; Bayer Leverkusen) and Keisuke Honda (Japan; CSKA Moscow) are in the fray for the Asian International Player of the Year honour.<\/p>\n<p>The awards will be presented at a grand ceremony on November 26, 2013, at the Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AFC Player of the Year 2013<\/strong><br \/>\n(in alphabetical order)<\/p>\n<p>Ha Dae Sung (Korea Republic and FC Seoul)<br \/>\nJavad Nekonam (Iran and Esteghlal)<br \/>\nZheng Zhi (China and Guangzhou Evergrande)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asian International Player of the Year 2013<\/strong><br \/>\n(in alphabetical order)<\/p>\n<p>Keisuke Honda (Japan; CSKA Moscow)<br \/>\nSon Heung-min (Korea Republic; Bayer Leverkusen)<br \/>\nYuto Nagatomo (Japan; Inter Milan)<\/p>\n<p><strong>AFC Foreign Player of the Year 2013<\/strong><br \/>\n(in alphabetical order)<\/p>\n<p>Dario Leonardo Conca (Guangzhou Evergrande; Argentina)<br \/>\nDejan Damjanovic (FC Seoul; Montenegro)<br \/>\nLuiz Guilherme Da Conceicao Silva (Guangzhou Evergrande; Brazil)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, AFC has announced the list of nominees for the 2013 AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":3198,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}