Son Seational’s Son Heung-min wins the 2020 AFC International Player Award

Kang-in Lee, 7th in the International Player Category

Ji So-yeon and Jang Seul-gi placed 5th and 6th in the’Best Female Player’ category

Son Heung-min
Son Heung-min

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Bo-in Jang = Heung-min Son (29) of Tottenham Hotspur, an English professional footballer, received 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 is selected by reflecting fan votes through 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.”

Next, 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 October the 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’ award, which was given by AFC through the annual awards ceremony, three times in 2015, 2017, and 2019.

The 2020 awards ceremony was canceled in the aftermath of a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), and AFC hosted the’Asia’s Choice-2020 Fan Awards’ online.

The winners were selected by reflecting the results of the votes of fans (60%) and experts (40%).

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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