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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Dongchan Kim = National soccer team defender Kim Min-jae (26, Napoli) was selected as the first player of the month in Italian professional soccer Serie A as an Asian player.
Italian professional soccer Serie A announced on the 30th of last month, “Napoli defender Kim Min-jae has been selected as the player of the month for September.”
Kim Min-jae recorded the most votes in a fan vote for Rodrigo Bekang (Udinese), Merrih Demiral (Atalanta), Theo Hernandez (AC Milan) and Sergei Milinkovic (Lazio), who competed for the September Player of the Year nominations. did.
Napoli’s Kvicha Kvaratskelia (Georgia) was also selected as Serie A Player of the Month for August.
Serie A representative Luigi de Siervo said, “Kim Min-jae showed his ability by effectively defending Serie A’s representative strikers Ciro Immobile and Olivier Giroud,” explained the reason for selecting the player in September.
Min-jae Kim, who played in the Turkiye (Turkey) league last season, wore a Napoli jersey in July of this year, and scored in a match against Lazio in September. .
This is the first time that an Asian player has been selected as the Player of the Month in Serie A, an Italian professional football team that has been awarded awards since the 2019-2020 season.
Napoli lead the league with 5 wins and 2 draws in the 2022-2023 season.
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