With his goal against Liverpool in the Premier League on September 30, Korean striker Son Heung-min raised his scoring record for European clubs to 200.
In the 36th minute, the match at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, after Richarlison's cross, Son Heung-min rushed in to open the score for Tottenham. That was his 151st goal for the London team in all competitions. Previously, he scored 20 goals for Hamburg and 29 goals for Bayer Leverkusen. In addition, he also contributed a goal for the Hamburg youth team in the German fourth division.
Son is currently ranked sixth on the list of players with the most goals for Tottenham. If he scores nine more goals, he will take fifth place from Cliff Jones. Harry Kane, who moved to Bayern in the summer, still holds the record of scoring 280 goals for Tottenham. The next three positions belong to Jimmy Greaves (268 goals), Bobby Smith (208 goals) and Martin Chivers (174 goals).
Son Heung-min (right) celebrates a goal in Tottenham's 2-1 win over Liverpool in round 7 of the Premier League on the evening of September 30.
Son was discovered in Korea, before joining the Hamburg youth team in 2008, when he was just 16 years old. After seven years of playing football in Germany, he joined Tottenham for 33 million USD. The 31-year-old striker was crowned Premier League top scorer in the 2021-2022 season, won the 2019-2020 Premier League Best Goal, FIFA Puskas 2020, reached the 2018-2019 Champions League final and the 2020 Federation Cup final. 2021.
Son became Tottenham captain on August 12, after Kane left for Bayern. Center back Curtis Romero and midfielder James Maddison are vice-captains. In the 2023-2024 season, the new Tottenham captain scored six goals in eight matches.
Son Heung-min is also the captain of the Korean team, where he contributed 37 goals in 113 matches. He ranked third in the list of players with the most goals for the team, after Cha Bum Kun with 58 goals and Hwang Sun Hong with 50 goals.
Along with Arsenal, Tottenham is one of two teams that have not lost a match in the 2023-2024 Premier League. They are ranked second with 17 points, while Man City leads with one point more.
Tottenham improved significantly compared to eighth place at the end of last season. Previously, during the summer transfer window, President Daniel Levy replaced interim coach Ryan Mason with Ange Postecoglou, the Australian coach who had just won two consecutive Scottish championships with Celtic. Postecoglou also won the Asian championship in 2015 with Australia and won the Japanese championship in 2019 with Yokohama Marinos Club.
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