Tottenham’s Son Heung-min of England’s professional football team won the 2020 Asian Football Federation (AFC) International Player Award.
AFC announced on the 24th (Korea Time) that Son Heung-min received 25.03 points in the vote result of’Asia’s Choice-2020 Best International Player’, which reflects fan votes on its website.
This award is given to a male player from Asia who plays for a professional team that is not part of the AFC, and was selected based on his performance in his team and national team last year.
Son Heung-min easily beat Iran’s Medi Taremi (29, FC Porto), who took second place (19.34 points), to the top.
AFC explained, “Son Heung-min had a great year with Harry Kane, boasting amazing breathing and scoring 22 goals for Tottenham.”
In addition, Son Heung-min introduced that he received the 2019-2020 season’Tottenham Player of the Year’ award, the 2020 Korea Football Association (KFA)’Player of the Year’ award, and last year’s England Premier League (EPL)’Player of the Month’ award.
Last year, he was the second player from Asia to receive the FIFA Pushka Award.
Previously, Son Heung-min received the’International Player of the Year’ three times in 2015, 2017, and 2019, given by AFC through the annual awards ceremony.
Kang-in Lee (20, Valencia) was in the 7th place (0.74 points) in this category.
Eli Carpenter (21, Olympiad Lyon), who received 26.93 points, was selected as the best female player.
Ji So-yeon (30, Chelsea Women), who was nominated for the nomination, was in 5th place (9.59 points), and Jang Seul-gi (27, Incheon Hyundai Steel) was in 6th place (3.80 points).
In the Best Young Player category, Won Doo-jae (24, Ulsan Hyundai) ranked third (16.20 points).
Won Doo-jae was selected as the best player in the tournament by leading the Korean national team’s championship at the AFC Under-23 (U-23) Championship held in Thailand in January last year, and contributed to Ulsan’s recapture in the AFC Champions League in December. Also did.
In the Best 2020 AFC Champions League (ACL) player category, Bitgaram Yoon (31, Ulsan Hyundai), who was honored as the best player (MVP) with 4 goals and 3 assists, placed 2nd after Persepolis goalkeeper Hamed Lark (47.14 points). 19.62 points).
Junio (35, Ulsan Hyundai), who scored 7 goals, placed 5th in this category (6.54 points).
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