The first person in team history! Son Heung-min s decade at Tottenham: Premier League Golden Boot, Europa League Championship and Racial Discrimination

This Sunday, Tottenham played against Newcastle in South Korea, which may be the last game of Son Heung-min's career

"Thank you for your arrival, this is the second year in a row, and it feels incredible, and we can't wait to start tomorrow's game. Before starting the press conference, I want to tell you that I decided to leave Tottenham this summer, and the club understood and helped."

"This is the most difficult decision in my career, and it makes me very proud to have spent ten years at the club. I feel that I have achieved all the goals I can achieve here, and I am grateful to the team for being able to agree to my decision. ”

For Son Heung-min, after spending ten years in Tottenham, winning the championship and being able to leave gloriously in front of Korean folks

, at least in Asia, his position as the king of football has not been shaken by anyone. With Son Heung-min's performance in the Premier League over the years, it is difficult for him to catch up with him in a short period of time

, and more importantly, in the tenth year, after ten years of persistence, the Tottenham captain won the first championship in team history in so many years, and was also the first championship in his club career

, but no matter what, after age, A winger is the biggest killer. In fact, since last season, Son Heung-min has been marginalized in Tottenham's team

Even if he is the captain, even if he is a legend of meritorious deed in the team, he should leave or leave when the club changes. Moreover, Son Heung-min takes the initiative to leave, which makes him more humane, rather than waiting to have conflicts with the club and then break up with his face

33-year-old Son Heung-min has oil in the fuel tank, but playing football in a wealthy club, especially the giants who want to compete for the championship, seems to be a bit extravagant. The best way is to go to Saudi Arabia to make gold or go to the United States to retire. The best plan is to go to the European League. The middle and lower-level team played for two years and then retired. Looking back at Son Heung-min's decade of Premier League Tottenham, I found that there would be too many difficulties and honors to reach the top. In the summer of 2015, Son Heung-min transferred from a Bundesliga pharmaceutical factory to the Premier League Tottenham. For this reason, the team spent 30 million euros transfer fee, so the round of fate turned around. Son Heung-min became a legend in the team step by step. So far, Son Heung-min played 454 games for Tottenham, winning 173 goals and 101 assists. He is one of the representative figures of the club in the past decade. Last season, Son Heung-min won the UEFA Europa League with Tottenham and won the championship as the captain. This is not only Son Heung-min's first championship in his career, but also his first championship in his club career

If no club champion scored, perhaps Son Heung-min is just a legend, not a legend, and is not even enough to compete for the first place in the history of the team

But after the UEFA Cup, everything is different, his first championship, the club's first championship, plus the goal assist data and time of playing, if someone had said before that an Asian could compete for the Premier League BIG6 team in the Premier League, the team would compete for the team. Shi No. 1, that's really crazy

"There are so many wonderful memories here, this decision is really hard to make, but I need a new environment to challenge myself, and it needs a little change. Ten years is a long time. I came to North London when I was 23 years old. I was still a child at the time. Now I will leave here as a mature and proud man. I want to say thank you to all Tottenham fans, thank you for your love, I hope this farewell is the right time, I hope everyone can understand and respect my decision. ”

Son Heung-min gave his peak period to Tottenham, which is worthy of the club and the fans. Kane learned from Demolish to leave early, and there were at least ten and eight championships. Demolish left Tottenham to win 28 championships, and also took the personal footballer to prove that he stayed in Tottenham fans and for money

But now, Son Heung-min is fully qualified

2021/22 season, Son Heung-min won the Premier League Golden Boot with 23 goals in 35 rounds, which established his position as the Asian king of football. It is a very milestone honor for him personally and the ceiling of Asian players. It will basically not be broken for a long time in the future

Son Heung-min's peak period is 2 From 019 to 2022, as the main player of Tottenham, he entered the 18/19 Champions League final and won the 21/22 Premier League Golden Boot. In 2019, he also won the Puskas Award

. At the same time, his value soared like his competitive state. At the age of 28, he was 90 million euros, which was 10 million yuan away from becoming a 100 million yuan man. The second largest Asian player value in history is Kim Min-jae and Kubo Jianying. The two have reached 60 million euros, but for Sun 100 million yuan, they are still far behind

2021-2022 Premier League Golden Boot - 23 goals (0 penalties)

2021 FIFA Puskas Award winners

4 Premier League hat tricks (Villa, Leicester City, Burnley and Southampton are the best four)

Champions League quarter-finals against Manchester City, leading the team to the Champions League finals

Sun Kai connects 47 times with the first double team in Premier League history

Tottenham Premier League history assist king (77 times)

Tottenham Premier League history scorer list 5 (173 goals)

4 Premier League best player of the month

Premier League history goal list 16 (127 goals)

Premier League history assist list 13 (77 assists)

As the captain of Tottenham Hotspur team, he won the 2024-2025 UEFA Cup championship

Whether in terms of value, data or honor, it will take a long time for others to chase the status of the Asian king of football In November 2017, in the Premier League against West Ham, he was insulted by the opponent's fans, "Selling CDs," which was not the following after the club issued a condemnation statement. In recent years, Son Heung-min has encountered the most serious racial discrimination in the past 21 years. In a Premier League game against West Ham, Tottenham lost to Manchester United 1-3 at home. In the game, Son Heung-min fell to the ground with exaggerated results, resulting in Manchester United's subsequent goal cancellation. After the game, Son Heung-min was criticized by Manchester United coach Solskjaer, but some fans were overly emotional and made racial discrimination remarks on Son Heung-min online. This time, after being subjected to large-scale cyber violence and racial discrimination, the London police began an investigation: "We investigated online racial discrimination against a famous London player, and 12 people were arrested or questioned by the police. The police have been taking action for the past two weeks and reached a peak last night (May 20). The 12 men are suspected of using words or actions to incite racial hatred."

However The London police did not announce the specific identities of these people, but revealed that the eight arrested people were aged 20 to 32 and lived in various parts of the UK. They are very typical English football hooligans. For Son Heung-min, the most uncomfortable racial discrimination comes from teammates. From Tottenham's locker room in June 24, Bentankur joked on a show broadcast in Uruguay that Son Heung-min and his cousins all looked the same. He said: "Son Heung-min, or Son Heung-min's cousins, they all look the same." Bentankur then posted a message on his social media to apologize to Son Heung-min. He wrote: "Brother! I'm sorry for what happened, it's a tasteless joke. You know I love you, I will never disrespect you, nor will I hurt you or anyone. I love you, brother!"

Sun Heung-min responded on social media: "I talked to Bentankur. He made a mistake, he knew. He apologized. He would not deliberately say offensive words. We are brothers, everything has not changed. We have let this thing pass, we are united, we will fight for our club before the season."

Then the FA official made racist remarks against Bentankur about Son Heung-min.

Then the FA officials made racist remarks against Bentankur about Son Heung-min. In terms of punishment, he will be suspended for seven games and fined £100,000.

The official FA said that Bentankur constituted a "serious violation" defined in FA Rule E3.2, because it includes references to nationality and/or race and/or ethnicity (whether explicit or implied)

Whether he was intentional or unintentional, when he said that, he had subconsciously the stereotype of Asians to the extreme

In the past decade, Son Heung-min has been legendary enough that he has set a good template for players from Asia, and the yellow race can also play well in the five major European leagues and become the core of the giants