Nekounam among Top Ten Asian Players of 2008
IRNA - Professional Iranian football player, Javad Nekounam, was selected as one the Top Ten Asian Players of 2008 on Wednesday.
Javad Nekounam occupies the fourth place of the rankings.
Fully recovered Nekounam, an Iranian player with the Spanish club Osasuna, also joined the Iran soccer squad after a one-year injury layoff on May 18.
Top Ten Asian Players Of 2008 include:
1 - Park Ji Sung (Manchester United and South Korea) 2 - Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka and Japan)
3 - Brett Emerton (Blackburn and Australia)
4 - Javad Nekounam (Osasuna and Iran)
5 - Server Djeparov (Bunyodkor and Uzbekistan)
6 - Hawar Mulla Mohammad (Anorthosis Famagusta FC and Iraq) 7 - Shunsuke Nakamura (Celtic and Japan)
8 - Hong Yong-jo (FC Rostov and North Korea)
9 - Ahmed Ajab (Al Qadsia and Kuwait)
10 - Ali Ashfaq (VB Sports and Maldives)
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