Bae Woong-ki, a reporter from Korean media Sportalkorea, wrote an article praising Son Heung-min’s performance over the past ten years and calling him a Korean football legend. 13 years ago, Son Heung-min burst into tears when the Korean team was eliminated in the first internati

Korean media sportalkorea reporter Bae Woong-ki wrote an article praising Son Heung-min 's performance over the past ten years and calling him a Korean football legend.

3 years ago, Son Heung-min burst into tears when the Korean team was eliminated in the first international competition of his career. The "crybaby maknae" at that time has now become a symbol of Korean football, leading the team forward. In the

World Cup preliminaries, with the consecutive goals of Oh Sehun , Son Heung-min and Bae Junho, the South Korean team defeated Kuwait 3-1.

In this game, Son Heung-min directly hit the penalty kick he won in the 19th minute of the first half, successfully scoring the 50th goal in his national team career (130 games). This makes him stand side by side for second place on the all-time best goal scoring list, tied with Hwang Sun-hong (50 goals in 103 games), the head coach of the Daejeon Citizens, and one step away from tying the record of the first Cha Bum-geun (58 in 135 games). ball) is only one step away.

Now, Son Heung-min is preparing to face the stage of his fourth World Cup. In the World Cup, he has scored 3 goals and is tied as the joint top scorer with Ahn Jung-hwan and Park Ji-sung (former Jeonbuk Hyundai consultant). Although Sun Xingmin's World Cup results are not satisfactory-the 2014 Brazil World Cup and They were eliminated in the group stage of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, and although they entered the top 16 of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, they were unable to show their best form due to an orbital fracture.

Especially in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil 10 years ago, the Korean team's tragic exit made Son Heung-min cry on the court. His young desire for the game made all Korean fans feel distressed. Now he has grown into one of the world's top attackers. 1 and became a symbolic figure of Korean football.

Son Heung-min's first goal for the national team occurred on January 18, 2011 against India in the 2011 Asian Football Confederation (afc) Qatar Asian Cup Group C round 3 match (4-1 win). At that time, Son Heung-min, who was only 18 years and 194 days old, scored his first goal for the national team in the 36th minute of the game with an assist from Park Ji-sung, and ranked second in the history of the A team as the youngest scorer.

Among Sun Xingmin's 50 goals, the most goals were scored with his right foot, with a total of 31 goals; followed by 15 goals with his left foot and 4 goals with his header. Son Heung-min's three goals in the World Cup (against Algeria in 2014, Mexico and Germany in 2018) were all scored with his left foot. His hat trick appeared in the 2018 Russia World Cup Asian Qualifiers against Laos in September 2015 (8-0 win). This was Son Heung-min's first and only hat trick. His doubles, including hat tricks, totaled 9 times.

Son Heung-min is also a "fixed penalty expert". He has scored 6 goals through free kicks and 8 goals from penalty kicks. He is the top scorer in these events. His goals were widely distributed, with 17 goals outside the penalty area and 33 goals inside the penalty area. His scoring times were distributed in 17 goals in the first half, 30 goals in the second half and 3 goals in overtime.

So far, Son Heung-min has scored 24 goals in the World Cup qualifiers, in addition to 16 goals in friendly matches, 7 goals in the Asian Cup, and 3 goals in the World Cup. By continent, he scored 32 goals in Asia, 7 goals in South America, 5 goals in Central and North America, 4 goals in Africa, 2 goals in Europe, and scored against Colombia and Laos (each 5 goals) contributed the most goals.

In the last game of the year against Palestine, Son Heung-min will once again challenge new history. He scored 9 goals in 2015, and he also scored 9 goals this year. If he scores one more goal, he can refresh his personal single-year scoring record.