[골닷컴] Reporter Dong-hoon Kang = The Korea Professional Football Federation (hereinfollowing referred to as “the Federation”) and K-League’s official video game partner Electronic Arts (hereinfollowing referred to as “EA”) won the ‘EA SPORTS K LEAGUE Player of the Month’ award for the 2022 season. Month)’ selects the sixth protagonist.
The EA SPORTS Player of the Month award is held in the K League, Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, and Ligue 1, and is given to the player with the best performance every month in each league. For 4 candidates selected through the first round of voting (60%) of the Federation TSG Technical Committee, the second K League fan voting (25%) and EA FIFA Online 4 (hereinfollowing referred to as ‘FIFA Online 4’) user voting (15) %), and the results of the 1st and 2nd rounds are added up to determine the winner.
Starting with the Player of the Month award in September, fan voting will be held on the K-League official website rather than the existing K-League event page. After registering as a member of the K-League official website, you can vote once per day per ID. The voting period is from September 29 to October 2 at midnight.
The winners of the Player of the Month award are given benefits such as ▲ a trophy, ▲ patching the player of the month award on the uniform for the season, ▲ displaying ‘Player of the Month’ on the FIFA Online 4 player card. For the September Player of the Month award, Barlow (29, Jeonbuk Hyundai), Shin Jin-ho (34, Pohang Steelers), Oh Hyun-gyu (21, Suwon Samsung), and Jeka (25, Daegu FC) were named.
Barrow contributed to the team’s lead competition with his unrivaled performance, recording six goals and one assist in five matches played in September. Shin Jin-ho, who is showing the best form this season, showed his ambition to join the league’s Best Eleven by adding four assists in September alone.
Hyungyu Oh scored a total of 4 goals in September, including the 2 goals he won in the Super Match, and showed a sense of scoring that did not cool down. In September, Jeka, who emerged as a new solver in Daegu, won MOM (Distinguished Game Player) and Round Best Eleven twice each, and Round MVP once.
Meanwhile, EA has been participating as an official video game partner of the K League since 2017. In addition to the Player of the Month award, EA and the Federation are running various promotions together, such as the FIFA Online 4 advertisement in the K-League stadium, and the ‘FIFA Online 4 Most Selected Player’ award for the player who received the most selection by game users.
