Competing with 9 players including Holland and Havertz Fan voting until the 27th local time
Son Heung-min (Tottenham), the star of Korean soccer, appeared as a candidate in the special English Premier League (EPL) Team Striker of the Year category chosen by fans.
On the 21st (local time), the EPL Secretariat informed fans to vote for the best 11 for the 2023-2024 season through its website and revealed 60 candidates for the 'Fan Team'.
Among these, the secretariat announced that the final selection will be two strikers, two attacking midfielders such as wingers, two central midfielders, two center backs, two full backs, and one goalkeeper.
Tottenham captain Son Heung-min was included among the 10 candidates named as strikers.
Son Heung-min finished this season with 17 goals and 10 assists. He ranked 8th in the league scoring rankings and tied for 3rd in assists rankings.
He left a deep impression on fans by recording a record of over 10 goals and 10 assists for the third time in his career.
It is a record previously recorded by only five stars, including Wayne Rooney, Muhammad Salah (five times), Eric Cantona, Frank Lampard (four times), and Didier Drogba (three times).
Son Heung-min's biggest competitor is Erling Haaland, the leading striker of the championship team Manchester City. 파워볼사이트
Holland was the top scorer with 27 goals, and his team Manchester City also achieved the feat of becoming the first player in EPL history to win four consecutive games.
Prominent strikers such as Kai Havertz, who is in charge of the front line of Arsenal, which competed for the title until the final game of the league against Manchester City, Darwin Núñez of Liverpool, and Matheus Cunha, who forms the top two with Hwang Hee-chan of Wolverhampton, were also included in this list.
Son Heung also ranks 3rd in the scoring rankings is Alexander Isaac (Newcastle, 21 goals), and in joint 4th place are Dominic Solanke (Bournemouth) and Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa, 19 goals), Yoan Wissa (Brentford), and Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest). Compete with Min.
Fan voting will be held until the 27th, and the final best 11 will be revealed on the 28th. You can vote by accessing the EPL website.
This is separate from the season's best 11 selected by the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA).
Son Heung-min, who has played in the EPL since 2015, has been selected in the PFA Best 11 only once.
He had the honor of being included in this list for the first time as an Asian player in the 2020-2021 season.
However, in the 2021-2022 season, when he showed his best performance, he was disappointed that he was not selected as one of the PFA Best 11.
He scored 23 goals and became the joint top scorer with Salah (Liverpool), but was not listed as one of the top three strikers in the EPL.
At the time, in the striker category, Sadio Mane (Liverpool at the time) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United at the time, Al-Nasr), who played together with Salah, were selected. 한국야동