Son Heung-min

Son Heung-min

Son Heung-min (Korean: 손흥민 ; born 8 July 1992) is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and captains the South Korean national team.Widely regarded as one of the best wingers in the world and also one of the best Asian players in European football history, Son is often considered an icon in his home country and in Asia, and was nominated for the Ballon d'Or in 2019, the highest-ever rank so far by an Asian player. Son was also the first Asian player in history to score more than 50 goals in the Premier League.Born in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, Son joined Hamburger SV at the age of 16 and debuted in the German Bundesliga in 2010. In 2013, he moved to Bayer Leverkusen for a club record €10 million before signing for Tottenham for £22 million two years later, becoming the most expensive Asian player in history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Son Heung-min has received more than 6,620,973 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Son Heung-min is the 1,416th most popular soccer player (down from 733rd in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from South Korea (down from 54th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular South Korean Soccer Player.