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[40]Connections: Sports Edition
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Son Heung-min is Tottenham. Tottenham is Son Heung-min.
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Son Heung-min is Tottenham. Tottenham is Son Heung-min.
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[41]Jack Pitt-Brooke
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Aug. 4, 2025Updated 5:05 am EDT
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Son Heung-min’s Tottenham career ended in Seoul, but his 10-year journey with
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them was completed in Bilbao.
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That was where he lifted the Europa League trophy in May, the single moment
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which suddenly made sense of everything else. All of the effort, all of the
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loyalty, all of the goals, all of the tears. Justified by that night in
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northern Spain and the celebrations that followed.
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And it was in Bilbao where Son’s embodiment of Tottenham — and Tottenham’s of
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Son — became complete.
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Nobody understood this before that final better than their head coach at the
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time, Ange Postecoglou. And he used it as motivation.
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“I made him a big focus of our Europa run because I thought he was symbolic of
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where people saw the club,” Postecoglou tells The Athletic. “Obviously he’s an
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outstanding player but was missing that key piece of success.”
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Postecoglou told the players that victory against Manchester United would
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change perceptions of both Son and the club in an instant.
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The players went out and did it for Son, just as they did for Spurs. There was
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no longer any distinction between the two.
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It is rare to see that sort of unity between player and club. But that is what
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Son reached over the course of his decade in north London. It is a profound
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achievement, an unquestioning love, more so than anything won merely on the
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pitch. His place in the history and memory of the club and their community is
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deep, permanent and unambiguous.
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“Sonny is Tottenham,” said an emotional James Maddison on Saturday, preparing
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to play with his captain and close friend for the final time. “And Tottenham is
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Sonny. It’s weird to think about Tottenham Hotspur without Son.”
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For the start of the story of Son and Tottenham, you have to go back not 10
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years but 12. Back to 2012-13, when he was a 20-year-old at Hamburg, starting
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to make an impression in the Bundesliga. It had been hard work establishing
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himself in German football but people were starting to take notice of this
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fast, graceful forward who was already starting to cut through teams.
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Tottenham sent their former manager David Pleat over to watch the South Korean
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in action, but he was not initially convinced. He thought Hamburg looked
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terrible and Son, recovering from an injury at that time, did not look fit.
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Still, Spurs were curious enough to open talks with Hamburg about a move.
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Remember, this was the point when they were starting to think about life after
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Gareth Bale, who joined Real Madrid in the summer of 2013. Young, dynamic
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forwards were very much on their mind.
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Son first moved to Hamburg at the age of 16 (Lars Baron/Getty Images)
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Despite Tottenham’s interest, it was another English club who got closest to
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signing him from Hamburg. Mauricio Pochettino had only been Southampton manager
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for a few months but knew that he needed more speed and goals in their forward
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line for the following season. “Sonny represented exactly the profile that we
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liked: dynamic, good on transitions, could play vertically, could play off both
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sides,” Paul Mitchell, then Southampton’s head of recruitment, tells The
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Athletic. “We wanted to play high pressing, high-octane football in and out of
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possession. He was perfect.”
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So it was Southampton rather than Spurs who were front of the queue in summer
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2013, but Son decided it was not the right time to try his luck in the Premier
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League. He stayed in Germany, moving to Bayer Leverkusen.
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Pochettino, of course, left Southampton for Spurs in summer 2014. Six months
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later, Mitchell followed him. Pochettino and Mitchell knew they had an exciting
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young team at White Hart Lane, but one that needed an extra cutting edge. They
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remembered Son, now playing for a Leverkusen team whose style perfectly mapped
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onto Pochettino’s own brand of pressing. “We never lost the idea of how well he
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aligned to principles we wanted to build in our teams,” Mitchell says.
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The fact that Son was shining in a team that put so much emphasis on running
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and pressing was important, but so was his physical robustness. Over his two
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years with Leverkusen, he only missed four matchday squads out of 94, and they
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were all because of international commitments or suspensions.
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In February 2015, Tottenham sent a scout to Leverkusen to watch a game against
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Wolfsburg. In the first half, Kevin De Bruyne and Bas Dost ripped through
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Leverkusen, building a 3-0 lead. The second half belonged to Son. He started by
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nicking the ball from the hands of Diego Benaglio and rolling it in. For his
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second goal, he sprinted after a long pass, took it down calmly, then lifted it
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over Benaglio with the outside of his right boot. To complete his hat-trick,
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Son cut in from the right and thumped a shot with his left foot through a busy
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penalty area into the bottom corner.
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Leverkusen lost 5-4 that day, Son’s hat-trick bested by Dost scoring four
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times. But Spurs had seen enough. The scouting feedback to the club was not
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just about those three goals, but his intangible qualities that had to be seen
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up close: How relaxed he was in front of goal. The efficiency of his actions in
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the final third. His two-footedness, but especially his unique capacity to
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surprise opponents by getting unpredictable shots off from either side of the
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goal.
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Leverkusen lost to Wolfsburg that day in 2015 but Son did enough to impress
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Spurs (Bernd Thissen/Getty Images)
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Tottenham had also been interested in West Bromwich Albion striker Saido
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Berahino, but then learned of an issue between Leverkusen manager Roger Schmidt
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and Son. “It gave us this little window of opportunity,” Mitchell recalls.
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“Because we had done all the background checks, all the profiling, checking his
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alignment to the style, we could move really, really quickly.” So fast, in
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fact, that some Spurs staff were frantically Googling their new player’s name
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on the day he signed.
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On August 28, 2015, Son joined Tottenham for £22million ($29m at the current
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rate). Mitchell is still proud of the deal: “That fee for a player of that
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quality is maybe one of the best investments any of us have ever made in our
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careers.”
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Kevin Wimmer still remembers Son’s first day at Spurs. Austrian defender Wimmer
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had arrived at the start of that summer from Koln, Leverkusen’s local rivals.
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But this was the start of a long friendship.
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“On the first day, he was already always smiling,” Wimmer recalls, 10 years on.
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“He knew that I spoke German, so from the first day on, we had a special
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connection. You could just feel that he’s such an amazing character. He was so
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nice to everyone — and to me — from the start.”
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This was an exciting summer at the club, a moment of rejuvenation for an
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improving team. Pochettino and Mitchell had put together a group of hungry
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young players who all looked like they would run through brick walls for their
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new manager and new team-mates. The surprising thing, given what a difficult
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first year Son ended up having, was how easy it looked at the very start.
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On September 17, Tottenham hosted Qarabag of Azerbaijan in their opening Europa
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League group-stage fixture. Son and a 19-year-old Dele Alli made their second
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starts for the club that night. It felt like a window into Spurs’ future, and
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the Korean was shining bright. He swept in an Andros Townsend corner for the
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first goal of a 3-1 win. He scored a second a couple of minutes later from a
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beautiful one-two with Dele. Three days later, Son started again, in the
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Premier League, bursting down the left to score the only goal to defeat
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visitors Crystal Palace. He looked like the Son of the Bundesliga already.
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Son celebrates his first goal for Spurs, against Qarabag (Scott Heavey/Getty
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But this was a false dawn.
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One week later, Son injured his plantar fascia, an important band of tissue on
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the bottom of the foot, against Manchester City. And his debut season never
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recovered. He did not make another start for Spurs for two months. He did not
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score for them again until after Christmas. For the biggest league games, it
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was clear that Pochettino wanted Erik Lamela, Dele and Christian Eriksen in the
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three behind striker Harry Kane. Son only started another 10 league games all
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season after that September injury. Three of them at the very end, the last two
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when Tottenham’s title challenge was over and Leicester City were surprise
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champions.
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The big question over the second half of that season was not just whether Son
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was playing, but whether he was even enjoying it. Nine years on, recollections
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differ about this point. “He has such a positive mindset and attitude,”
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remembers Mitchell, “coming in with a big smile, working hard, we never felt at
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any time that he was ever even considering giving up.” But there were certainly
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those at the club who feared Son’s head was dropping, that his application in
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training was not as good as it could have been. And that he did not look as if
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he was enjoying the challenge of trying to win his place back.
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In August 2016, Son went to Brazil to play for his country at the Olympics.
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When he came back to Spurs, he knew there was an offer for him to return to the
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Bundesliga with Wolfsburg. On one level, it made sense: Son had already proved
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that he could excel in the Bundesliga. And he had not been reluctant in the
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past to move for the good of his career.
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Son’s mind was made up. “I came close to leaving,” Son told London’s Evening
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Standard newspaper in 2019. “I went to (Pochettino)’s office and told him I
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didn’t feel comfortable and wanted to leave for Germany.” Fortunately,
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Tottenham had other ideas. Partly because having invested £22million in him a
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year earlier, they did not want to lose him on the cheap, even if there were
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some internal doubts about him. But also because the football staff knew how
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good he could be. Players like that — with that pace, quality, versatility and
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attitude — do not come along very often. He would have been impossible to
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replace at short notice.
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So Pochettino explained to Son, in that special way he had with players, that
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the best solution was for him to stay and fight for his place in the team. “We
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were clear with Son that he has to earn his right to play, as we tell
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everyone,” Pochettino later recounted in his book, Brave New World. “He wanted
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to leave after a bad year, but I told him that he was part of my plans and we
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weren’t going to let him go on the cheap. He decided to stay.”
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The uncertainty about Son’s future — combined with his participation in the
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Olympics through the first two weeks of August — meant he was not involved in
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Spurs’ start to the new season. It is hard to plan around someone who had
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“almost both feet out of the door”, as one insider put it.
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Son didn’t feature at all before the first international break began in late
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August, in which he played in one of South Korea’s two World Cup qualifiers
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that window then came straight back to England. But he trained so well on his
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return that Pochettino told staff that he had to start their next league game —
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away at Stoke City on September 10.
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Son kick-started his Spurs career at Stoke in September 2016 (Laurence
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Griffiths/Getty Images)
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It was an inspired choice. Son was electric, scoring twice, the second
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beautifully curled into the top corner from the edge of the box, and setting up
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another goal for Kane in a 4-0 win.
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In a very real sense, this was the true start of his Tottenham career.
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Two weeks later, he scored both as Middlesbrough were beaten, 2-1. Then he got
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the goal in a 1-0 defeat of CSKA Moscow in the Champions League. Five days
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after that, Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City came to White Hart Lane. With Kane
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injured, Son started as a false nine and ran City ragged, inspiring a 2-0 win
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that showed the world how good he and this Spurs team could be.
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So was there ever any real doubt?
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“We had to be patient and accept the noise, because it was a fair early
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reflection,” Mitchell says. “But we had done the work. We had seen how he had
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been in the Bundesliga. We knew the quality. We could feel it in the sessions.
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We could see how dynamic he was, how intelligent, the finishing ability off
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both sides. We were adamant: he will be a top player.”
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Looking back, the most crucial part of Son’s story is not that he came to
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Tottenham in summer 2015. It was inevitable that he would have left Germany for
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the Premier League at some point. Far more important was what happened in
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summer 2016.
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The fact that he considered giving up and waving goodbye to Spurs after one
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difficult year, before staying and succeeding is far more interesting and
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surprising. And significantly more decisive to his eventual triumph.
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Both he and the club continued to reap the rewards for years to come.
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The remarkable thing about Son’s peak is how long it lasted.
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It started in that autumn of 2016 and lasted for at least six years — maybe
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even eight, depending on your view. During that time, he firmly established
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himself as one of the best forwards in football.
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There is very little new that can be said about how good Son was at his peak.
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It was not just that he was fast, although when he hit top speed, few defenders
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in the game could keep up. It was not just that his movement was good, although
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there was barely an offside line he could not catch off-guard. It was not just
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that he was a good finisher, although he would outscore his expected goals
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figure by bigger margins than even Kane year after year. And it was not just
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that he was two-footed, although Mitchell, who signed him, says he has never in
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his life seen a better player with both feet.
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It was all of these things in combination, all of it done with a grace and
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efficiency which made Son look like a feat of engineering. He looked so
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effortlessly smooth and elegant as he burst down the left, opened his body up
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at full speed, and whipped the ball into the far corner. As he did so, he
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radiated a sense of inevitability. One that could be felt by everyone in the
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stadium. Including in the Tottenham dugout.
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Son and James Maddison enjoyed a briefly fruitful partnership (Marc Atkins/
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“When you think about players, particularly in the Premier League, who played
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his position, the output he had of goals and assists was quite extraordinary,”
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says Postecoglou. “He was as good a finisher as you could find from wide areas.
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Even last year, there were times when Sonny breaks through on the left and puts
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it in the bottom corner, across the goalkeeper. You know it’s a goal before
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he’s even struck it.”
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But with Son it was about more than just the aesthetics or even just the
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numbers (his 127 goals make him the Premier League’s joint-16th highest
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scorer). Because his great strength at Tottenham was the importance of the
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goals he scored.
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During those peak Pochettino years, the feeling inside the club was that they
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had three top players, three ‘number ones’ in their squad. There was Kane, the
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ultimate high-volume goalscorer. There was Dele, whose unique talent meant that
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he could break open the biggest games. And then there was Son, whose gift was
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for the difficult matches, and the important goals — the openers and the
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winners.
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Just think back to the most memorable Son goals, and how much they mattered.
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The 89th-minute winner at Watford as Spurs chased a top-four place, and
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Champions League qualification, in his first season. The decider at Borussia
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Dortmund in the Champions League in 2017. The opener against the same
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opposition in the first leg of a last-16 tie in that competition in 2019. The
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first ever official goal at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium against Palace later
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that spring. The winner against City in a Champions League quarter-final first
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leg six days later.
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Best of all, the ultimate Son performance, was when Spurs went to the Etihad
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Stadium to try to defend that one-goal lead.
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City were all over them from the start and had already pulled level in the tie
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when, in the seventh minute, a loose ball fell to Son on the edge of the box.
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First touch, right foot, in off goalkeeper Ederson’s legs. Two minutes later,
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after Lucas Moura broke down the right, Eriksen found him and he produced a
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moment of pure Son genius: a perfect first touch away from Kyle Walker, opening
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his body up, and then whipping the ball into the far top corner.
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Everything good about Son was encapsulated in that moment: clinical, graceful,
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in a moment with the highest possible stakes.
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Even after that, he kept getting better — and more decisive. He scored a
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stoppage-time winner at Aston Villa in February 2020, the second of his two
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goals that day, when playing with a broken arm, and the first goals in 2-0 home
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defeats of City and Arsenal behind closed doors, due to the pandemic, that
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autumn.
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His best season of all was 2021-22. It started with Son getting the first goal
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of the brief Nuno Espirito Santo era, another winner against City, and it ended
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with him scoring 12 times in the last 10 league games as Antonio Conte’s Spurs
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stormed past Arsenal to seal fourth, the Korean ending up sharing the Golden
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Boot with Mohamed Salah of Liverpool on 23 Premier League goals.
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Spurs fans will all have their own favourite Son moment. When he scored his
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100th Premier League goal — becoming one of only 34 players to do so — in a win
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over Brighton in April 2023, his friends chose to mark the achievement. Ben
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Davies — Son’s long-time Tottenham team-mate and best friend — hosted a dinner
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party at his house to celebrate.
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And it’s not just Davies and Wimmer — Son has had an incredible bond with
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dozens of the players he has shared a dressing room with at Spurs. It’s not
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hard to see why.
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When Tottenham went to South Korea in the 2022 pre-season, every member of the
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travelling party arrived at their hotel to find personalised gifts in their
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rooms from Son to thank them for coming to his homeland.
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It was the same story when they went there again last year. Everyone on the
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tour got gifts from Son’s personal brands. Even Postecoglou got a cap, shorts,
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a T-shirt and some toiletries. He made sure to impress upon his squad the
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importance of Son’s gesture.
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“I would constantly tell the players, because we had a young group, that the
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measure of any person is not always their achievements,” Postecoglou says.
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“It’s about how they treat other people. Sonny didn’t have to do those things,
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it’s his generosity. I could see that the players understood: giving back is
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just as important as any accomplishments you make.
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“He was constantly doing that, constantly giving back. It was a great example
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to everyone, myself included, that irrespective of how great a career you have
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and how high the esteem you’re held in, it’s the way you treat people that’s a
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greater measure than anything else.”
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When Son was given gifts by adoring fans on such tours — and he got a lot — he
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took time to say thanks and treasured every one of them, having them loaded
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into a van to take home with him.
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This has always been the way with Son.
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From the time in his first few months at Spurs when he organised and paid for a
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big Korean banquet at the training ground for players and staff. Or how Son
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would always invite Wimmer to his home after training, so that his mother could
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cook for his team-mate. (“His mum is such a lovely person,” Wimmer says, “she
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always took care of me, like I was also her son.”)
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Son shared a close bond with Wimmer and Walker in his early years at Spurs
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(Alex Livesey/Getty Images)
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Or just the little acts of kindness that he imparts every single day. His
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generosity in meeting fans, recording videos for them, signing photographs
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after training when everyone else has driven home, anything to brighten their
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day. Anyone who knows Son or has worked with him will tell an identical story
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of him being delighted to see them, asking how they are, how their family is.
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People who have not seen Son for a long time will get messages out of the blue
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checking in on them and their loved ones.
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Which is why people who know Son say that, however impressive he is as a
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footballer, he is even more impressive as a person. He is idolised by millions
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but still sees himself in other people, and makes time for every single one.
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“He is exactly as you see him,” says Postecoglou. “Sometimes, the public
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perception of a person is a lot different to how they actually are. But with
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Sonny, there was no difference in the way the public perceived him to how he
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was in private.
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“The one thing about Sonny that people don’t understand is that he’s lived in a
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goldfish bowl for pretty much the entirety of his career, he’s always had eyes
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on him. To live in that sort of cauldron for as long as he has, and I doubt you
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could find one person to say something negative about him, is just incredible.”
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If deciding not to leave Tottenham in summer 2016 was the making of Son, it was
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another decision four years later that built his legacy.
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The 2020-21 season was a strange time at Spurs. Jose Mourinho was in charge,
|
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football was still being played behind closed doors due to Covid-19, and after
|
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a strong start, the team went into a sharp decline. Kane already knew that City
|
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wanted him, and at the end of that season he would try to escape there. Son was
|
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28 then, and at his physical peak. He was good enough to play for any team in
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the world. But it was at this point — when he could have done anything he
|
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wanted — that he again decided to stay.
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A new long-term contract was agreed that autumn, then announced in July 2021.
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It was for another four seasons, which have turned out to be Son’s last four at
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the club.
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Kane finally got his move, to Bayern Munich, in 2023 — the summer Postecoglou
|
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arrived as head coach. With Hugo Lloris also on his way out, it was time for a
|
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new captain. And Postecoglou had a decision to make. “I thought the key thing
|
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in looking for a leader was a unifier,” the Australian explains. “And this is
|
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who Sonny is. He could literally sit at any table in the lunch room, whether it
|
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was staff or players, and get a conversation going. That was going to be
|
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important for us.
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“His demeanour at the training ground, and the way he trained, was almost like
|
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he was a first-year player every time he was out there. If your leaders are not
|
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engaged, or lack enthusiasm, at any stage, that filters through to the whole
|
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group. But he would not allow that to happen.”
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[GettyImages-2216329805-scaled-e1754160217711]
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Son waves goodbye to the Tottenham fans with the Europa League trophy in his
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arms (Justin Tallis/Getty Images)
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In Postecoglou’s second season, Son’s last at Spurs, their captain struggled
|
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with injuries. He only scored two league goals after Christmas. He looked like
|
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he had lost some of his explosive pace, the burst that always gave him the
|
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space to shoot. He was absent for the big games — Eintracht Frankfurt away in
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the quarter-final’s second leg, both legs of the semi against Bodo/Glimt — on
|
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Spurs’ way to Bilbao.
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But Postecoglou still knew how important Son was going into that final. Even
|
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though he knew his skipper was not fit enough to start the game, and that
|
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Richarlison had proven how useful he could be playing on the left. So
|
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Postecoglou reminded his players of Son’s significance, as the living
|
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representation of the club. Lifting that trophy would change perceptions of
|
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him, just as it would of Tottenham as a club.
|
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|
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“If we can elevate Sonny to a level above some of the best players that have
|
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ever played for this club by winning something and having him lift a trophy,
|
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we’re all going to be part of something special,” Postecoglou told his players.
|
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“We’re going to be part of his legacy.”
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|
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This is why the images at the end of the match, with Son overwhelmed by
|
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emotion, were so powerful. The fact he had stayed through the hard times made
|
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his eventual triumph, leading Spurs to the promised land, even more emphatic.
|
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His journey was Tottenham’s journey. His vindication was Tottenham’s
|
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vindication. His tears were Tottenham’s tears.
|
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|
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Few players get to leave after a moment this perfect or this fulfilling. His
|
||||
10-year arc at Spurs was complete. But even fewer players deserve the perfect
|
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ending like Son did.
|
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|
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Because he embodied the joy of football played well, the shared thrill as he
|
||||
burst past a defender, the graceful way he found the corner of the net. But
|
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also because he embodied the joy of people. He never hid his emotions on the
|
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pitch, or his love for his team-mates or colleagues or the fans who supported
|
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him.
|
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|
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When he scored, or Spurs won, he radiated happiness, as if he felt he was the
|
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luckiest man in the world to be getting these goals for this team. And he
|
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wanted fans to share that luck and share that joy with him, too.
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Additional reporting: Charlie Eccleshare, Jay Harris, Dan Kilpatrick
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[76] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/football/efl-league-one/
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[77] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/football/efl-league-two/
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[78] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sports-memorabilia-and-collectibles/
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[79] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/college-basketball/
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[80] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/football/world-cup/
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[81] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mma/
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[82] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/
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[83] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/football/mls/
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[84] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/motorsports/
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[85] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/nascar/
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[86] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/nba/
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[87] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/nfl/
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[88] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/nhl/
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[89] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/football/nwsl/
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[90] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/olympics/
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[91] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/opinion/
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[92] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sports-leadership-personal-development/
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[93] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/football/premier-league/
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[94] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/football/scottish-premiership/
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[95] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/football/serie-a/
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[96] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/football/
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[97] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sports-betting/
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[98] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sports-business/
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[99] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/tennis/
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[100] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/top-sports-news/
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[101] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/wnba/
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[102] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/womens-college-basketball/
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[103] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/football/womens-euros/
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[104] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/womens-hockey/
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[105] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/football/womens-football/
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[106] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/football/womens-world-cup-soccer/
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[107] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/ink/
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[108] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/podcasts/
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[109] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/news/
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[110] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/arizona/
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[111] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/atlanta/
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[112] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/baltimore/
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[113] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/bayarea/
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[114] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/boston/
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[115] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/buffalo/
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[116] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/carolina/
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[117] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/chicago/
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[118] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/cincinnati/
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[119] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/cleveland/
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[120] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/columbus/
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[121] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/dfw/
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[122] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/denver/
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[123] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/detroit/
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[124] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/houston/
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[125] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/indiana/
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[126] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/jacksonville/
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[127] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/kc/
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[128] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/vegas/
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[129] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/losangeles/
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[130] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/memphis/
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[131] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/miami/
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[132] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/mn/
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[133] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/nashville/
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[134] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/neworleans/
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[135] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/newyork/
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[136] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/oklahoma/
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[137] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/oregon/
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[138] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/orlando/
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[139] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/philly/
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[140] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/pittsburgh/
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[141] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/sacramento/
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[142] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/sanantonio/
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[143] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/sandiego/
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[144] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/seattle/
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[145] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/stlouis/
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[146] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/tampabay/
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[147] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/utah/
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[148] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/dc/
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[149] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/wisconsin/
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[150] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/calgary/
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[151] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/edmonton/
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[152] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/montreal/
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[153] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/ottawa/
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[154] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/toronto/
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[155] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/vancouver/
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[156] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/location/winnipeg/
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[157] https://www.ebay.com/b/Sports-Memorabilia-Fan-Shop-Sports-Cards/64482/bn_1857919?mk[%E2%80%A6]55-0&siteid=0&campid=5339067565&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1
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[158] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sports-betting/odds/
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[159] https://www.fubo.tv/stream/the-athletic/?irad=2158783&irmp=5579095&ftv_campaign=PtnrUS_TA_VanityURL&sharedid=PtnrUS_TA_VanityURL
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[160] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/tickets/
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[161] https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/athletic?source=athletic&onboarded=false&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fathletic%2Fwelcome2%2F%3Fredirect%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252Fathletic%252F6522100%252F2025%252F08%252F04%252Fson-heung-min-is-tottenham-tottenham-is-son-heung-min%252F
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[162] https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/groups?Pardot_Campaign_Code_Form_Input=7FQLH
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[163] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/about/
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[164] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/careers/
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[165] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/code-of-conduct/
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[166] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/edit-guidelines/
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[167] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/contact-us/
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[168] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/press/
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[169] https://theathletic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
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[170] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/forgot-password2/
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[171] https://theathletic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
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[172] https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428-Terms-of-Service
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[173] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/newsletters/the-pulse/
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[174] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/newsletters/the-bounce/
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[175] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/newsletters/the-windup/
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[176] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/newsletters/prime-tire/
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[177] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/newsletters/full-time/
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[178] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/newsletters/until-saturday/
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[179] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/newsletters/scoop-city/
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[180] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/newsletters/the-athletic-fc/
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[181] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/newsletters/moneycall/
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[182] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/newsletters/red-light/
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[183] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/
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[184] https://www.nytimes.com/
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[185] https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/10940941449492-The-New-York-Times-Company-Privacy-Policy
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[186] https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/cookie-policy#how-do-i-manage-trackers
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[187] https://theathletic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
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[188] https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap/
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[189] https://twitter.com/TheAthletic
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[190] https://facebook.com/TheAthletic
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[191] https://instagram.com/TheAthleticHQ
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[192] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-athletic-sports-news/id1135216317
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[193] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theathletic
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