What is the 2024 'match of the year' selected by soccer fans? Son Heung-min's 'goal of the year' for the second consecutive year.

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What is the best game of our national team selected by soccer fans last year?

He won the Asian Cup quarterfinals against Australia after a close game in extra time, and Son Heung-min's free-kick goal was also selected as the "goal of the year."

Reporter Lee Dae-gun's report.

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The quarterfinals of the Asian Cup, which tied the score with Hwang Hee-chan's penalty kick in extra time in the second half.

The game goes into extra time, and again Hwang Hee-chan gets a dramatic free kick.

Son Heung-min, who is a kicker, winds his right foot and puts it in the left corner of the goal.

The national team will reach the semifinals by beating Australia after 120 minutes of bloodshed.

This is why soccer fans handpicked it as 2024's 'Game of the Year'.

More than 6 out of 10 people chose this game.

The match against Kuwait in the third round of the World Cup held in November last year came in second place, and the match against Iraq, which was held earlier, came in third place.

'Goal of the Year' also came from 'Game of the Year'.

Son Heung-min's come-from-behind free-kick goal in the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup took the top spot.

Son Heung-min won the 'Goal of the Year' honor for the second consecutive year following 2023.

[Son Heung-min / Team captain (February last year): We don't need any excuses, any hardships, any pain, we're going to run with only one goal]

Lee Kang-in's goal in the second World Cup qualifying match against Singapore came in second place, and Cho Kyu-sung's header in the round of 16 at the Asian Cup came in third.

Since 2022, the Korea Football Association has selected "Play of the Year" and "Goal of the Year" as fan voting, but unlike before, this time, only members who logged in to the website were voted.

I'm Lee Daegun of YTN.

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