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Ognenovski wins Asian Player of the Year award Australian defender Sasa Ognenovski has been named the Asian Player of the Year by the region's football governing body.
Ognenovski, the 31-year-old captain of South Korea's Seongnam Ilhwa club, edged out four other finalists from Iran, Bahrain and Kuwait. Attendance at the Asian Football Confederation's awards ceremony Wednesday in Malaysia was a prerequisite for the award. Several candidates playing for European clubs were unable to make it. Ognenovski helped his club win the AFC Champions League in Tokyo last week with a 3-1 victory over Iran's Zob Ahan. The four other finalists at the ceremony were two from Iran—Farhad Majidi and Farshid Talebi—as well as Kuwait's Bader Al Mutawa and Bahrain's Husain Salman.