Son Heung-min

I'll be honest — Son Heung-min is one of those players who makes you forget you're watching sports and think you're watching art. From his decade at Tottenham Hotspur, where he became one of the Premier League's most lethal left wingers, to captaining South Korea on the world stage, Sonny has always delivered with a smile that somehow makes the goals hit harder. The 2021-22 Golden Boot he shared with Mohamed Salah felt like the universe correcting a long overdue debt. He's fast, two-footed, relentlessly hard-working, and genuinely seems like a good dude — which in modern football is almost as rare as the goals he scores. Watching him move into his MLS chapter feels bittersweet, but if anyone can make LA LAFC appointment viewing, it's him.

Name (English)

Son Heung-min

Name (Japanese)

孫興慜

Reading

そん・ふんみん

Born

July 8, 1992 (age 34)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

Origin

Chuncheon, South Korea

Height

183 cm

Occupation

association football player

High school

Dongbuk High School

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son%20Heung-min
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%AB%E8%88%88%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q439722

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.