Son Heung-min is pretty good at what he does.
The Tottenham star just finished the Premier League season with 23 goals, tying Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah for the Golden Boot. Notably, the Korean scored none of his goals from the penalty spot while Salah scored five.
Son has been one of the top players in the Premier League for some time now, having scored double-digit league goals for six consecutive seasons while also ranking near the top of the league’s assist charts during that span.
Plenty of fans and pundits would say the 29-year-old is still underrated, especially after he got shut out entirely of the recent PFA awards. But the Spurs star’s father thinks his son still has a ways to go.
Son Woong-jung, himself a former pro player, gave an interview in 2018 when he said his son was “absolutely not world class.” Four years later, has his mind changed at all?
“There is no change even now,” Woong-jung told Daum. “Heung-min is not yet world class.”
Asked what makes someone world class, Woong-jung replied: “He is a player who can survive in the best clubs in the world. I think it will be possible if Heung-min grows by 10 percent in all fields.”
Complacency doesn’t seem likely to set in for the Tottenham striker as long as he is taking his father’s advice. Maybe it’s tough love, but it could also ensure the striker keeps striving for bigger and better things.
“I’m always cautious,” Woong-jung said. “A crisis comes when you say, ‘This is enough.'”
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