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Son Heung-min named South Korean Player of the Year for a record 4th time

  /  JaniceHo37

Son Heung-min has been named the South Korean's best player of the year for a record fourth time.

The Korea Football Association announced on Thursday that Son, the attacking stalwart for Tottenham Hotspur, was voted the Male Player of the Year for 2019.

Son was also honoured in 2013, 2014 and 2017. The fourth award breaks a tie with three-time honoree Ki Sung-Yeung, who earned the award in 2011, 2012 and 2016.

Son topped the voting by the media and the KFA‘s election committee. Players were award points based on a top-three vote, and Son came away with 209 points.

Son became the all-time Korean scoring leader in European club football on Nov. 6 when he scored a pair of goals in a UEFA Champions League match to move past former Bundesliga legend Cha Bum-Kun's mark of 121.

Earlier in the year, Son helped lead Spurs to their first UEFA Champions League final. He scored 20 goals in 48 matches during the 2018-2019 season, one shy of his career high, and has 10 in 22 matches so far in the 2019-2010 season.