Ibrahim won the award ahead of UAE club Al Ain’s Ismail Ahmed and Nassir Al Shamrani of Saudi club side Al Hilal. Ibrahim had become his country’s first recipient of the AFC Player of the Year Award in 2006. The Al Sadd man was again in imperious form in this season’s AFC Champions League, with the Qatar international putting in a series of dazzling shows on Asian club football’s biggest stage as Al Sadd made it to the last eight.
