The Korea Football Association (KFA) said it was notified by Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga that it could not make Son, a South Korean football star, available for the Asian Games as the Asian Games football matches are not on the official FIFA calendar.
The KFA asked Leverkusen to release the 22-year-old for the Games to be held in Incheon, west of Seoul, from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4.
A striker, Son scored in a 4–2 defeat to Algeria in his team’s second Group H preliminary round match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
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