Park Jin-seob, who captained Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors to the Korean soccer title this fall, has been nominated for the league MVP award.
The Korea Skilled Soccer League (Ok League) introduced nominees for main end-of-season awards on Thursday.
For the MVP honor, Park shall be up towards Pablo Sabbag of Suwon FC and Lee Dong-gyeong of Ulsan HD FC.
Primarily a middle again in earlier seasons, Park turned himself right into a defensive midfielder underneath new head coach Gus Poyet and helped Jeonbuk clinch their report tenth Ok League 1 title on Oct. 18 with 5 matches left to play. With Park serving as the important thing cog of their defensive system, Jeonbuk have conceded the fewest objectives within the league thus far with 31 in 36 matches.
Sabbag is main the Ok League 1 with 17 objectives in 32 matches in his first season in Korea, attempting to maintain Suwon FC out of the relegation zone.
Lee began the season with the navy membership, Gimcheon Sangmu FC, and had 13 objectives and 11 assists in 34 matches with them. Following his discharge from the navy service, Lee returned to Ulsan, the place he recorded one help in two matches earlier than struggling a damaged rib earlier this month.
MVP winners have typically come from league champions. Park will attempt to grow to be the primary Jeonbuk participant to be so honored since Hong Jeong-ho in 2021.
Park can be up for a spot on the Ok League 1 Greatest XI squad. Jeonbuk have a candidate in each place, with one goalkeeper, 4 defenders, 4 midfielders and two forwards set to be chosen.
Poyet is taken into account the front-runner for the Coach of the 12 months award, having lead Jeonbuk to the title a season after they narrowly prevented being relegated to the second division. He shall be up towards Ryu Byeong-hoon of FC Anyang and Hwang Solar-hong of Daejeon Hana Citizen FC.
Gangwon FC midfielder Lee Seung-won, FC Anyang ahead Chae Hyun-woo and FC Seoul midfielder Hwang Do-yun are the three nominees for the Younger Participant of the 12 months award. Gamers who’re 23 or youthful with lower than three years {of professional} expertise are eligible for this award, and so they should even have performed no less than half of the season to be nominated.
Head coaches and captains for the golf equipment, and soccer journalists will vote on these awards beginning Monday. The winners shall be introduced on the annual awards ceremony on Dec. 1 in Seoul.
