Son Heung-min became the first Asian player in Premier League history to score 100 goals when he netted against Everton
Key Highlights :
1. Son Heung-min has become the first Asian player to score 100 Premier League goals, the latest milestone in a career full of many.
2. Son hit the century mark with a 10th-minute strike against Brighton Hove Albion at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on Saturday (local time).
3. Son is also the first player to register 100 goals and 50 assists for Spurs.
4. Tottenham won the match 2-1 to improve to 53 points, good for fifth place and three back of Manchester United.
5. The right-footed shot from outside the box was Son's seventh of the Premier League season and 11th in all competitions.
6. Son began his senior club career in Germany in 2010, spending three seasons with Hamburger SV and another three with Bayer Leverkusen before taking his talent to London.
7. Son scored four goals in the 2015-2016 season for Tottenham, his first Premier League campaign, and went on to score in double figures in the next six seasons in a row.
8. He scored a career-high 23 goals last season en route to becoming the first Asian to win the Golden Boot as the league's scoring leader.
9. Tottenham's Korean striker Son Heung-Min celebrates after scoring the opening goal of the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Brighton and Hove Albion at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, April 8. AFP-Yonhap
10. This season, Son has eight matches left to try to extend his double-digit scoring streak to seven.
Son Heung-min has become the first Asian player to score 100 Premier League goals, the latest milestone in a career full of many. The South Korea international has now scored in all but one of the league’s seasons and is one of only five players to have reached the century mark. He has also scored in the FA Cup, League Cup and Champions League, and has been a major part of Tottenham Hotspur’s success over the years. Son Heung-min’s goals have helped the club finish in the top four on three occasions and reach the Champions League semi-finals in 2017. He is also the first player from South Korea to score in the Premier League.
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