Son Heung-min, who scored'Wonder Goal' in last season's Burnley match, was included in the three finalists of the FIFA Puskas Awards given to the player who scored the best goal.
FIFA announced the finalists by category for the'The Best FIFA Football Awards 2020' on their website.
The awards ceremony will be held on the 17th local time.
Son Heung-min was named as the three finalists of the'The Fuskas Awards', who voted the'best scorer' for the 2019-2020 season.
Son Heung-min showed'Wonder Goal' in the 16th round of the English Premier League with Burnley last December, sprinting 70m on his own, running away from 6 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'.
Based on this, Son Heung-min, who was included in the 11 nominations for FIFA's'The Fuskas Awards' announced last month, was included in the three finalists along with Giorgian de Arascaeta (Flamengo) and Luis Suarez (Barcelona). .
The finalists for FIFA'Player of the Year' were compressed into a three-way match between Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski.
Established in 1991,'FIFA Player of the Year' was integrated with the French Football's Ballon d'Or in 2010, and has been awarded separately since 2016.
In the 10 years from 2008 to 2017, Ronaldo and Messi shared more than five times.
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