Son Heung-min, who destroyed Australia, celebrates free-kick → 2024 goal of the year...This year's event is the Cup quarterfinals
Jan 06, 2025
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The Korea Football Association announced on the 6th the results of voting for the '2024 KFA Goal of the Year' and the '2024 KFA Game of the Year' selected by fans. As a result of fan voting, Son Heung-min's free kick goal from the match of the year against Australia and the same game was selected as the goal of the year.
The voting took place on the KFA's marketing platform PlayKFA from Dec. 5-26. 2,607 PlayKFA members participated through the app and website.
Of the eight 'match of the year' candidates, the Asian Cup quarter-final match against Australia was selected by 64% of soccer fans who voted. South Korea scored the first goal in the match against Australia and was taken away, but Hwang Hee-chan's penalty in extra time in the second half tied it. In the 14th minute of the first half of extra time, Son Heung-min's free-kick goal was scored, and he won a thrilling 2-1 come-from-behind victory after 120 minutes of bloodshed.
The match against Kuwait in the third qualifying round of the 2026 North Korea-China World Cup, which won 3-1 with an overwhelming performance on the road, came in second with 13.6% of the choices. With captain Son Heung-min absent due to injury, the Iraq match in the third qualifying round for the October World Cup, which won 3-2 at Yongin Mir Stadium, came in third with 12.7%.
In the vote of the 'Goal of the Year', Son Heung-min's thrilling extra-time free-kick goal in the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup against Australia topped the list with 48.8% of the vote participants. In second place is a goal (23.2%) that Lee Kang-in made with a powerful right-footed shot over three defenders with a solo breakthrough against Singapore in the second qualifying round of the World Cup. In third place is Cho Kyu-sung's heading goal (10 percent) in the match against Saudi Arabia in the round of 16 at the Asian Cup.
Son Heung-min won this year's goal honor by fans for the second consecutive year following the 2023 goal of the year. In 2023, he was named the goal of the year for scoring a mid-range shot at home against Singapore in the second qualifying round of the World Cup.
The Korea Football Association holds fan voting to select 'Goal of the Year' and 'Game of the Year' for the men's and women's national team games held at the end of the year. In the past, anonymous or duplicate voting was possible through web pages or SNS, but from this time on, the voting was conducted with the participation of members who logged in to the PlayKFA platform.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
