After Son Heung-min decided to leave Tottenham and go to play for the American League, Dong Fangzhuo commented that in his mind, Son Heung-min is the best Asian player in the five major leagues.
Dong Fangzhuo's comments are as follows:
Son Heung-min finally ended his ten-year Tottenham football career, and many people are discussing whether he is the best player in Asia. In history, in my opinion, he is indeed the best person in Asia among the top five leagues.
No matter how difficult it is to survive in Europe as an Asian player, or after coming to the Premier League from the Bundesliga, he faced disagreement, and people did not expect him as an important link, but slowly reached the absolute core of the team, became the captain of the team, and became the symbol of the team. It should be said that the whole experience is not as simple and easy as everyone imagines.
You should know that in fact, many European teams actually have very high standards for a player, and they even say that many people are wearing tinted glasses looking at you and staring at you. So, it is really difficult to gain a foothold in a Premier League team, become an absolute core, become a captain, and become the winner of the Golden Boot Award for a season.
So it is not easy to see that Son Heung-min has gone through the way. In addition to saying that as his father, he is constraining his guidance, discipline and constraints, or that he is constantly working hard, striving and making progress himself. It should be said that a strong mentality is also an important magic weapon for him to become such an excellent player.
No matter what, it seems to be collective honor to many other seniors, whether it is Cha Bang Geun or Park Ji-sung, but many people are discussing that he does not have as many collective honors as others like Park Ji-sung and Cha Bang Geun. But his personal abilities, let’s put aside collective honors because this involves the team issues. However, as an individual, as a player, his position in the team, his role, the core tactics he brings, the influence he brings, and the value he brings, is really irreplaceable.
In the Tottenham team, Kane even took on part of the role of Kane after he left. So when a winger can assume the role of a center, you can see how much the team relies on him. Son Heung-min's ability is indeed irreplaceable at least in Tottenham.
Although it seemed that I slowly reached the brink of the team last season and it seemed that my condition was not as good as before, this may also be related to the head coach's aggressive tactics. However, his performance last season cannot be determined to become the best Asian player on the historical list, at least he won all kinds of individual awards.
So in my opinion, Son Heung-min is indeed the best Asian player in the five major leagues in history at present