Son Heung-Min: My Story | FourFourTwo
Hand-shaking, history-making Heung-min Son certainly knows how to have a good time - and his form for Spurs has left more than just the merchandise smiling.
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00:00Hello, I'm Hyunmin Sun.
00:09This is my story.
00:14I started maybe when I was like nine years old and also before 2002, but I growing up
00:23with the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and watched a lot of games and this was my dream
00:29to play World Cup and I have a good memory for that.
00:33I growing up and I watched a lot of times Cristiano Ronaldo because he played Manchester
00:39United and his teammate was Park Ji-sung, a South Korean player, they played together.
00:46I watched him a lot of times, that's why he's still my idol.
00:53He's a lot better than me and I just still watch him sometimes in YouTube or some video
01:00clips of him because I can still practice a lot from him.
01:08My agent went to South Korea with some scouts in Hamburg and Nuremberg and they picked three
01:18players in each team and my agent in Hamburg as well, they picked me up and I joined them.
01:29Of course it was difficult but different as well and when I was 16 I left my country away
01:35from my parents but I was just thinking this is my dream to play in Europe.
01:43I need to take the chance, it's not coming every day, I just took the chance.
01:50For me it was difficult and away from parents, away from country at 16 years old, it's not
01:58the easy ones but in my head I was just thinking this is just my dream, I want to just keep
02:06working hard.
02:07Some people, some players want to join here and not make it, enjoy it and I feel sorry.
02:16I have a good memory and I changed from Hamburg to Leverkusen and then my first game against
02:24Hamburg I scored a hat-trick and I feel sorry to the Hamburg fans or Hamburg city because
02:35this is my first memory because this was my first hat-trick against my ex-team and
02:42I felt just sorry and it was my first hat-trick.
02:47For me it was a dream to play in the Premier League and before I moved to England I just
02:51told my manager I want to change to England because I can't take the chance, it's my dream
03:01to play in the Premier League and growing up I watched so many games in the Premier
03:05League and the first game I did a little bit not good performance and everyone was worried
03:12about maybe the change was too early from Germany to England, everyone was talking about
03:17it but I was confident to play here and all the coaching staff and all the Tottenham behind
03:26me, they support me, they make me better than before, a lot better.
03:32I work really hard, training is really good, even if I don't play the training session
03:38is always tough and you're always fit.
03:41I can't, his big team is impossible because he's just unbelievable, he scores so many
03:47goals, he can score from everywhere, for me he's just one of the best strikers and I say
03:54after the game as well, he's younger than me but he works really, really hard.
03:59This was my dream, when I was growing up I was thinking when I play for a professional
04:05team everyone just look at me, this is my role model, this is Sonny, this was my dream
04:14but I don't know if everyone is thinking Sonny is my role model but you know I won, last
04:24season I won twice the Premier League, this made me so happy, this was I think the best
04:31thing you can do, dreaming you can do what you want but in Korea they say you should
04:43dream bigger than what you think.
04:48Of course the football players are dreaming about Ballon d'Or or winning a title, this
04:55is one of my dreams.