Lee Kang-in was nominated for the La Liga Team of the Season on Tuesday, the only Mallorca player to make the 47-man shortlist announced by the Spanish league and EA Sports.
Napoli and Mallorca may be joining the flood of European football clubs headed for Korea this summer, with local media reporting Wednesday that the two teams could be playing a friendly here as early as next month.
Lee Kang-in of Mallorca, right, fights for the ball with Atletico Madrid’s Pablo Barrios during a La Liga game in Madrid on Wednesday.
Mallorca midfielder Lee Kang-in’s good form earned him yet another accolade on Tuesday, with statistics accumulator WhoScored.com naming him among the best XI players in Europe for the football week that ended on April 17.
Lee Kang-in became the first Korean footballer ever to score two goals in one La Liga game on Sunday, bagging a brace to lead Mallorca to a 3-1 victory over Getafe in a performance the club summed up in one word: “King.”
Mallorca manager Javier Aguirre blamed star midfielder Lee Kang-in and Koreans fans in general for his side’s 1-0 loss to Real Betis on Sunday, claiming that La Liga has scheduled the games unfairly to try and appeal to Asian fans.
Lee Kang-in scored a crucial equalizer for Mallorca on Sunday, holding fourth-place Real Sociedad to a 1-1 draw in a La Liga clash at home in the Balearic Islands.
Mallorca jumped up to eighth place on the La Liga table on Saturday after a fiery 4-2 win over Villarreal allowed them to overtake the Castellón side.
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