Confrontation as a soccer team ace
Salah celebrates hand top scorer on social media
Son included 10 nominees for ‘Goal of the Year’
Football Association “Two EPL players jumped”
The box office weighs more than the World Cup
I’m sorry about the ‘mock test’ against Ghana
▲ Heung-Min Son (Tottenham Hotspur)
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After Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain), Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur) took part in another matchup of the Korean national football team’s ‘Frenzy June’. It is a match against Mohammed Salah (Liverpool), who share the title of top scorer in the English Premier League (EPL).
An official from the Korea Football Association announced on the 26th that the last opponent of the national football team, led by coach Paulo Bento, in the 4th consecutive A match next month was decided with Egypt. Bentuho will face Brazil on the 2nd of next month, Chile (Daejeon World Cup Stadium) on the 6th, Paraguay (Suwon World Cup Stadium) on the 10th, and then face off against Egypt on the 14th. After the friendly match in 2005, the 18th match in 17 years is expected to be the Sangambeol again.
▲ A photo and congratulatory message of Son Heung-min, who entered Incheon International Airport with the ‘Golden Boot’ posted on his Twitter by Muhammad Salah (Liverpool), captain of the Egyptian national team on the 26th.
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The reason Egypt, which is ranked 32nd, three places lower than Korea in the FIFA rankings, is attracting attention is because of Salah. After a fierce competition with Son Heung-min for the top scorer, Salah shared the title of joint top scorer with 23 goals. Heung-Min Son will compete with two 30-year-olds of the same age, including Neymar, who boasts the highest ransom, and Salah, the best goalkeeper in the EPL.
On the 23rd (Korea time), Egyptian captain Salah, who had a gloomy expression on his face even after receiving the trophy as if he was disappointed with the co-scorer, will also play an ‘armband match’ with Son Heung-min. On this day, three days after winning the award, he retweeted the video of Son Heung-min arriving at Incheon International Airport with the top scorer trophy (golden boot) and wrote, ‘Congratulations, Sonny!’
As if considering Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)’s ‘no-show’ incident in mind, a high-ranking football association official said in a phone call with the Seoul newspaper that day, “I couldn’t pinpoint Salah (played or not) in the match A conditions, so I was confused about 2 players from the EPL. The contract was written to include the person’s name,” he explained. In fact, Salah and Mohammed Elneni (Arsenal) were the only EPL players in the Qatar World Cup final qualifier last March.
However, the match against Egypt is not the best choice due to the nature of this 4 consecutive match, which is a ‘mock test’ for the Qatar World Cup. Egypt’s trip to Qatar was canceled, and although it is an African team, it is different from Ghana. As the Football Association, which has suffered a major blow to ticket sales revenue due to the COVID-19 outbreak over the past two years, seems to have been thinking about the ‘performance’ rather than the ‘quality’ of the evaluation match as the competition between Son Heung-min and Salah for the top scorer drew a lot of attention.
Meanwhile, Son Heung-min was named in the list of 10 candidates for ‘Goal of the Year’ for the 2021-22 season announced by the EPL Secretariat on the same day. The goal scored in the 34th minute of the 35th round home match against Leicester City on the 1st was nominated. If Son Heung-min receives this award again, it will be his second award in his career following the ’70m running goal’ against Burnley in the 2019-20 season.
Byung-gyu Choi, staff reporter