Son Heung-min

South Korean association football player (born 1992)

Son Heung-min (born 1992) is a South Korean association football player. He was born in Chuncheon on 8 July 1992.

Son competed in association football as a forward. The clubs and national sides on that record are Hamburger SV (2010–2013), 73 appearances and 20 goals, Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (2015–2025), 333 appearances and 127 goals, Bayer 04 Leverkusen (2013–2015), 62 appearances and 21 goals, the South Korea national under-17 football team (2008–2009), 18 appearances and 7 goals and the South Korea men's national football team (from 2010), 144 appearances and 56 goals. That career was played out in Premier League. He had begun working by 2010.

Son appeared at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, football at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. He studied at Dongbuk High School.

Son was the son of Son Woong-jung.

Hamburger SV was founded in 1887.

Son Heung-min is covered in 77 language editions of Wikipedia, a rough measure of how far the name has carried beyond South Korea.

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