Without SON, LEE is king! Lee Kang-in stands tall as the best player...He beat his best friend → He won for the fourth consecutive year

Oct 17, 2025

Without SON, LEE is king! Lee Kang-in stands tall as the best player...He beat his best friend → He won for the fourth consecutive year
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Without SON, LEE is king! Lee Kang-in stands tall as the best player...He beat his best friend → He won for the fourth consecutive year
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Without Son Heung-min, Lee Kang-in was the king of Asia. Lee Kang-in won the Asian International Player of the Year Award.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) presented Lee Kang-in with the 'Asian International Player of the Year' award at the AFC Awards 2025 held at the King Fahad Cultural Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Lee Kang-in, the ace of the Korean national soccer team, performed brilliantly in the 2024-2025 season. His team Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) recorded a "quadruple" 'quadruple (four wins)' from Ligue 1, the UEFA Champions League, Trope de Champion, and the Coupe de France. Lee Kang-in faithfully played his role in the rotation and assisted his team in winning the championship.




Without SON, LEE is king! Lee Kang-in stands tall as the best player...He beat his best friend → He won for the fourth consecutive year
Yonhap News
Without SON, LEE is king! Lee Kang-in stands tall as the best player...He beat his best friend → He won for the fourth consecutive year
Yonhap News
He also became the second Korean player to win the UEFA Champions League after Park Ji-sung, who played for Manchester United in the past.

Lee Kang-in became the winner of the award, beating Iran's Mehdi Taremi and Japan's Kubo Takefusa. With Lee Kang-in's award, the honor of the award went to the South Korean player for the fourth consecutive year. Son Heung-min won the award in 2019 and 2023. Kim Min-jae won the award in 2022. The awards ceremony was not held from 2020 to 2021 due to COVID-19.

Lee Kang-in is a player with mourning. He won the Men's Youth Player Award at the AFC Awards in Hong Kong in 2019. At the FIFA U-20 World Cup held in Poland that year, he led South Korea to the first runner-up in history and won the "Golden Ball (Best Player)".




Without SON, LEE is king! Lee Kang-in stands tall as the best player...He beat his best friend → He won for the fourth consecutive year
Without SON, LEE is king! Lee Kang-in stands tall as the best player...He beat his best friend → He won for the fourth consecutive year
Yonhap News
Lee Kang-in is making remarkable achievements, but the task remains. This is because like last season, this season is also being given a rotation role. With the main players on the line, the number of opportunities to play has increased, but they are not steadily getting a chance to play. Lee Kang-in has to raise his sense of play more than anything else ahead of next year's North American World Cup. For this reason, there are continuous opinions that they should move to a team that can play. In order to remain the best player in Asia next year, a change is needed to make a leap to the starting lineup.








This article was translated by Naver AI translator.