[골닷컴] Reporter Dong-Hoon Kang = “Captain” Son Heung-min (29, Tottenham Hotspur) of the Korean national football team is setting various records every day. Previously, after joining the Century Club (played in 100 matches in A match) for the 16th time in the history of Korean football, he was ranked 4th in the top scorer (33 goals) in the A match, and this time, he scored a free kick goal in two consecutive matches in the A match for the first time in Korean football history. He broke the record and set a record.
Son Heung-min scored an additional goal from a free kick with his right foot in the 46th minute of the second half in the friendly match against Chile at the Daejeon World Cup Stadium on the 6th, leading to a 2-0 victory. Then, in the friendly match against Paraguay held at the Suwon World Cup Stadium on the 10th, in the 21st minute of the second half, he scored again with a free kick with his right foot to set the stage for a 2-2 draw. Both free kick goals came from the arc area.
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The Korea Football Association (KFA) announced on the 11th that “Heung-Min Son is virtually the first player in the history of the Korean national team to score a goal with a free kick in two consecutive games.” He added, “It is difficult to say 100% because there were cases where the scoring process was not detailed in some games before the 1960s, but until then, there were very few cases where a goal was scored directly from a free kick, so I am sure Son Heung-min would be the first.”
Son Heung-min scored a goal with a powerful right-footed free kick from behind the arc circle in the 22nd minute of the second half in the match against Myanmar in the second qualifying round of the World Cup held in Bangkok, Thailand on June 16, 2015. scoring a goal All three goals scored from free kicks had in common in the second half of the second half by shooting from near the arc circle.
On the other hand, among Korean players, the player who scored the most goals from direct free kicks in match A is ‘left-footed master’ Ha Seok-ju (54). Ha Seok-ju is ranked first in this category with a total of four goals, starting with the 1996 Korea-China match against China, the 1997 friendly match against Australia, the World Cup qualifier against Thailand, and the 1998 World Cup France match against Mexico with a left-footed free kick.