The Korea Football Association announced yesterday that the free kick goal scored by Son Heung-min against Paraguay was the first free-kick goal scored by a Korean player in two consecutive matches in A match.
In the friendly match against Chile on the 6th, Son Heung-min scored an additional goal with a right-footed free kick in the 46th minute of the second half to lead the team to a 2-0 victory. I put it.
In this regard, the Korea Football Association said, "Heung-min Son is virtually the first in the history of the Korean national team A match for a player to score a goal directly from a free kick in two consecutive games."
The reason why the word 'de facto' was attached is because the scoring process of some games before the 1960s was not recorded in detail.
Because of this, the Football Association explained, "It is difficult to say 100%, but up to that time, there were very few cases where a goal was scored directly from a free kick."
Son Heung-min scored a goal with a powerful right-footed free kick from behind the arc in the 22nd minute of the match against Myanmar in the second Asian qualifying round of the 2018 Russia World Cup held in Bangkok, Thailand on June 16, 2015.
Heung-Min Son appeared in 101 matches of Match A and scored 3 of 33 goals from direct free kicks.
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