Tadanari Lee celebrates after scoring the winning goal in the final against Australia in the Asian Cup football tournament on Sunday.

Japanese defender Yuto Nagatomo made a clean cross from the lefthand side in the fourth minute of the second half of the extra time in the AFC Asian Cup final on Sunday. The ball found the foot of Tadanari Lee, a forward for Sanfrecce Hiroshima, and went into the net before the Australian goalkeeper could do anything about it.

It was one of the most dramatic goals in the history of the AFC Asian Cup final. Lee is a fourth-generation Korean-Japanese, whose original name is Lee Chung-sung. Born in Tokyo, he started playing football when he was in primary school. In 2001 he joined the FC Tokyo youth team and was selected to Korea's U-20 team in 2004. Because he was discriminated against in Japan in middle and high school, Lee often said his dream was to become a member of the Korean national team. But he had difficulties adjusting to life in Korea due to lack of fluency in the language and got little help from teammates. 

Hurt and disappointed, Lee returned to Japan in 2005 and applied for Japanese citizenship in 2006, against fierce opposition from his family. He became a naturalized Japanese citizen in February 2007. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Lee was selected for Japan's U-23 team and won the gold medal. He was subsequently added to the roster of the Japanese national team for the Asian Cup. His game winner against Australia was his very first goal for the national team. He celebrated by firing an invisible arrow into the air.

Some interpret his ceremony as an allusion to Iconiq, better known in Korea as Ayumi, a third-generation Korean-Japanese singer who was formerly a member of a Korean girl group Sugar. According to Japanese media reports, Lee and Ayumi have been in relationship since 2008.

Lee has the Japanese surname Oyama but still keeps Lee on his uniform.