Son Heung-min of’Burnley War Wonder Goal’ wins 2020 Puskas Award… 2nd in history in Asia

Son Heung-min won the 2020 Puskas Award. [사진 FIFA 트위터 캡처]

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Tottenham Hotspur Son Heung-min (28) became the main character of the FIFA Foucas Awards.

At the’The Best FIFA Football Awards 2020′ held online on the 18th, the ’70m Wonder Goal’, which was selected against Burnley last season, was selected at the Puskas Award, which commemorates the most fantastic goal in a soccer game of the year.

Son Heung-min showed’Wonder Goal’ in the 16th round of the English Premier League (EPL) against Burnley last December, sprinting 70m on his own, jumping out of six opponents and jumping into the penalty area and shaking the net with a right foot shot.

At that time, the goal of the year was’Goal of the Year’ of the British public broadcaster BBC’s’Goal of the Year’, followed by’Goal of the Year’ by the British sports media The Athletics, and the 2019-2020 season selected by the EPL Secretariat. Was selected as’Goal’.

In the vote of fans (50%) and football expert panel (50%) on this day, Son Heung-min overtook Luis Suarez (Barcelona) and Giorian de Arascaeta (Flamengo) to receive the final award.

Son Heung-min became the second Puskas winner in Asia and the first Korean winner after Mohammed Paiz Subree from Malaysia in 2016.

Reporter Lee Ji-young [email protected]

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