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Awarded with a total of 24 points, beating De Arascaeta and Suárez
The second Asian player
Son Heung-min (28, Tottenham) won the FIFA Pushka award for his ’70-meter Wonder Goal’ that he scored against Burnley last season.
He is the first Korean player to win the Pushka Award and the second in Asia.
Son Heung-min was selected as the winner of the Pushka Award at the ‘The Best FIFA Football Awards 2020’ held online at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, on the morning of the 18th (Korean time).
The ‘The Best FIFA Football Awards’ is an annual FIFA event that selects and awards the best players and coaches during the year.
The Pushka Prize was established in 2009 after the late Ferenc Pushkasi, the Hungarian soccer legend.
Regardless of competition, gender or nationality, the award is awarded to determine the best goal scored in a soccer game during the year.
Son Heung-min is the first Korean player to receive the Pushka award.
As an Asian player, this is the second award after Mohammed Paiz Subri (Malaysia) in 2016.
Son Heung-min was honored with a fantastic goal in the English Premier League (EPL) game against Burnley last December.
At that moment, Son Heung-min, who caught the ball from Tottenham’s field, ran for about 70 meters alone and shook the net with a right shot in the penalty area after escaping from 6 Burnley players.
Subsequently, this goal was selected by the EPL Secretariat for the 2019-2020 season, followed by ‘Goal of the Year’ by the British public broadcaster BBC, and ‘Goal of the Year’ by the British sports outlet The Athletic. It was selected as ‘Goal’ and was recognized as the best goal.
FIFA unveiled the 11 candidates last month and among them, Giorgian de Arascaeta (Flamengo) who fired a “ mid-distance kick from above ” and Luis Suárez (Barcelona) who did an exquisite heel kick, together to Son Heung-min, I put it on the three finalists.
The final winner was voted on by fans (50%) and a panel of soccer experts (50%).
According to the votes cast by FIFA, Son Heung-min obtained 13 points in the vote of the experts and 11 points in the vote of the fans, for a total of 24 points.
In the fan vote he was the one with the most 13 points, followed by Arascaeta with 22 points.
Suarez scored 20 points adding 11 expert votes to 9 fan votes.
FIFA announced Son Heung-min’s award and said: “It was all a fascinating 12 seconds for Son Heung-min until he shook the goal net on the other side of his field.” I fell in love.
“I introduced him.
Then Gary Lineker, the legendary English striker, who played for Tottenham, called it “ one of the best solo goals ever seen ”, adding that the public agreed with this vote.
Meanwhile, Son Heung-min was also nominated for the FIFA-International Soccer Players Association (FIFPro) Top 11 Forwards category, but did not receive the award.
/ yunhap news
