South Korea · 2018–22Kim Min-jae
Rating
#5
Editorial rank of 33 for South Korea
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The people's rank, live from duel votes
Naples called him il Mostro in his first season there, 2022/23, when he replaced Kalidou Koulibaly and played 35 of 38 league games for a side that had not won Italy since Maradona. That Scudetto came with Serie A's best defender award, the first for an Asian player, and he has since won consecutive Bundesliga titles at Bayern Munich, plus two K League crowns at Jeonbuk and Asian Games gold in 2018.
Shared the era
South Korea legends whose careers overlapped Min-jae's