CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 It was a night worthy of a picture or two for Son Heung-min.<\/p>\n
Son scored two goals in a three-minute span in the first half off assists from Carles Gil to propel the MLS All-Stars past the LIGA MX All-Stars 4-3 in Wednesday night\u2019s Major League Soccer All-Star Game.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Football Club forward celebrated both goals with his\u00a0signature \u201ccamera\u201d celebration\u00a0\u2014 mimicking holding an old-fashioned camera, framing the shot with his fingers and then pretending to snap a picture.<\/p>\n
Son was named the game\u2019s MVP.<\/p>\n
Chicago Fire\u2019s Philip Zinckernagel and FC Cincinnati\u2019s Evander da Silva Ferreira also scored for the MLS All-Stars in front of 35,197 at Bank of America Stadium.<\/p>\n
Luis Gabriel Rey sent a running header off a free kick past Matt Freese, the United States men\u2019s national team goalkeeper, 10 minutes into the game to give Liga MX a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Then Son took over.<\/p>\n
The LAFC forward fielded a pass from Gil on the left side of the pitch, settled the ball and\u00a0slid a well-placed shot\u00a0past a diving Carlos Acevedo to even the score at the 20-minute mark.<\/p>\n
Son gave MLS the lead for good just moments later when Gil hustled to stop the ball from going out of play and fired a pass back in front of the goal. Son\u00a0buried the shot\u00a0in the back of the net.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s an unbelievable player,\u201d said Hany Mukhtar, a midfielder for Nashville FC, said of Son. \u201cHe\u2019s a world class player for a reason. He shows it every week, and we all know how good he is. We see it in training, and I\u2019m not surprised at what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zinckernagel made it 3-1 MLS in the 42nd minute when he\u00a0scored off a rebound.<\/p>\n
Liga MX got to within 3-2 early in the second half on a goal by Salomon Rondon, before Ferreira\u2019s goal in the 58th minute gave MLS some cushion. Jose Pardela added a late goal in extra time for LIGA MX to make it 4-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 It was a night worthy of a picture or two for Son Heung-min. Son scored…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,74,1254,76,75,1083,127],"class_list":["post-417525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-fc","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}