Son Heung-min

Heung-Min Son
Heung-Min Son (2018)
Personnel
Surname	Son Heung-min
birthday	July 8, 1992
place of birth	Chuncheon ,  South Korea
size	183 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
2008	FC Seoul / Dongbuk High School
2008-2010	Hamburger SV
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2010	Hamburger SV II	6 0(1)
2010-2013	Hamburger SV	73 (20)
2013-2015	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	62 (21)
2015–	Tottenham Hotspur	160 (53)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2008-2009	South Korea U17	15 0(7)
2011–	South Korea	79 (24)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of March 26, 2019

Son Heung-min ( kor. 손흥 민 , born July 8, 1992 in Chuncheon ), known in German-speaking countries under the customary name sequence Heung-Min Son , is a South Korean football player . He has been under contract with Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League since the 2015/16 season and can be used as a center and winger.

society

Son came to the Hanseatic city in 2008 as part of a cooperation between Hamburger SV and the South Korean Football Association, together with his two compatriots Jong-Pil Kim and Min-Hyeok Kim , to visit the club's own football internat . This was organized by the chairman of the German-Korean Sports and Culture Association (DKSV), Chae Gue-chun. Son played in the 2008-09 season in the Junior B league , where he had once in the A-Junior Bundesliga was used. In the 2009/10 season he played firmly in the A youth . In the second half of the season he was also used six times in the second team in the fourth-class Regionalliga Nord and scored one goal.

For the 2010/11 season, Son moved up to the professional squad and on his 18th birthday received a professional contract valid until 2012. After strong performances in pre-season games, his two-year contract was extended to 2014 just a few weeks later. The HSV coach at the time, Armin Veh , described Son as a "jewel". Shortly before the start of the 2010/11 season , Son broke his metatarsus in a friendly against Chelsea after scoring the winning goal to make it 2-1, and was out for six weeks. He made his competitive debut on October 27, 2010 in the DFB-Pokal game against Eintracht Frankfurt . He played his first Bundesliga game three days later against 1. FC Köln , in which he also scored his first goal. On November 20, 2010, he scored two goals in a Bundesliga match for the first time in the 3-2 away defeat against Hannover 96 .

For the 2013/14 season , Son moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen within the Bundesliga . He signed a contract valid until June 30, 2018. Son played his first game for the Werkself in a 3-1 home win against SC Freiburg on matchday one on August 10, 2013. His goal made it 2-1 to help Leverkusen win.

On August 28, 2015, Son moved to the English first division club Tottenham Hotspur . He signed a contract valid until 2020. Here the South Korean was able to quickly develop a regular position as a back-up for center forward Harry Kane and regularly played in the European Cup with the Londoners. In the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League , Son reached the final with Tottenham, but lost to league rivals Liverpool there . In mid-February 2020, the winger broke his arm in the league game against Aston Villa and was out for a long time. During the forced break ordered due to the global COVID-19 pandemic , the association announced on April 6, 2020 that Son will receive compulsory basic training for three weeks with the South Korean Navy from April 20 following his quarantine and then to London should return.

National team

After finishing second at the U-16 Asian Cup with South Korea in 2008, he took part in the U-17 national team at the U-17 World Cup in Nigeria in 2009 and scored three goals in five games. When he reached the quarter-finals, he was one of the top performers of his team and is highlighted in the tournament report as a “left midfielder with good running and dribbling skills, dangerous with long-range shots”.

On December 24, 2010, Son was appointed to the squad for the 2011 Asian Cup in Qatar . At the tournament he played several times as a substitute and won the bronze medal with the South Korean team.

On May 9, 2014, he was appointed to the provisional squad of the South Korean national soccer team for the 2014 World Cup by coach Myung-Bo Hong . On June 17, 2014 in the first game against Russia in the Arena Pantanal in Cuiabá , which ended 1: 1, Son was elected Man of the Match .

In January 2015 he took part again in the Asian Cup in Australia and achieved the silver medal with South Korea. In the final against Australia he scored the interim equalization to 1: 1 in stoppage time of regular time.

Son scored two goals in the finals of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In the defeat of South Korea against Mexico , he shortened by a long shot to the final result of 1: 2. In the game in Kazan against Germany , he scored the goal in the 96th minute to make it 2-0 by pushing the ball into the empty German goal left by Manuel Neuer during a counterattack .

successes

National team

• Football Championship East Asia : East Asia Champion 2008
• Asian Games 2018

Awards

• Footballer of the Year in South Korea : 2013, 2014
• Tottenham Hotspur Player of the Year: 2019, 2020

Others

• His brother Son Heung-yun (* 1989) played in the Hamburg Oberliga in 2013 at SV Halstenbek-Rellingen .
• In 2014, Son was in a relationship with South Korean singer Bang Min-ah from girl group Girl's Day .

Web links

Commons : Heung-Min Son  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Heung-Min Son in the database of weltfussball.de
• Heung-Min Son in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Pröpping: Adventure in another world. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . October 6, 2008, accessed June 1, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Sören Bachmann: SV Eichede brings reinforcements from the Far East. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Retrieved June 1, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Son is Veh's storm jewel. (No longer available online.) In: Hamburger Morgenpost . July 11, 2010; Archived from the original on July 13, 2010 ; accessed on June 1, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Course set: Son, Besic and Stepanek extend. (No longer available online.) In: hsv.de. November 4, 2010, archived from the original on December 13, 2014 ; accessed on June 1, 2014 . 
5. ^ Lars levelow: candidate carousel for the defense. In: Welt Online . July 12, 2010, accessed June 1, 2014 . 
6. ↑ 2: 3 defeat against 1. FC Köln. (No longer available online.) In: hsv.de. October 30, 2010, archived from the original on December 13, 2014 ; accessed on June 1, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Heung Min Son moves to Bayer Leverkusen. (No longer available online.) In: hsv.de. June 13, 2013, archived from the original on July 18, 2014 ; accessed on June 1, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Heung-Min Son changes to Tottenham Hotspur ( memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) bayer04.de, accessed on August 28, 2015
9. ↑ Heung-Min Son deal agreed tottenhamhotspur.com, accessed on August 28, 2015 (English)
10. ↑ Football - Champions League Armbreak: Tottenham against Leipzig even without Son , focus.de, accessed on February 18, 2020
11. ↑ Son update , tottenhamhotspur.com, accessed on April 6, 2020 (English)
12. ↑ FIFA (Ed.): FIFA U-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009 - Technical Report and Statistics . Zurich 2009, p. 179
13. ↑ Bundesliga stars of the 2014 World Cup - Part 3: South Korea with Heung-Min Son to Brazil. In: fussballnationalmannschaft.net. May 9, 2014, accessed June 1, 2014 . 
14. ↑ FIFA.com, accessed June 30, 2014
15. ↑ Son Heung-yun at transfermarkt.de

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Son is the family name here, Heung-min is the first name.