Son Heung-Min is awesome. I know it, you know it, and so does the Asian Football Confederation. How do I know this? First — duh. And second, because the Tottenham Hotspur club captain keeps winning awards like the AFC Asian Footballer of the Year award, one of two awards given to either footballers of Asian descent or footballers who are plying their craft for AFC clubs.
The one we’re interested is the first one — the Asian Footballer of the Year award, which celebrates footballers of Asian descent who are playing football anywhere in the world. And for the fourth time, Son Heung-Min has been awarded that honor, more than any other Asian footballer.
Keep in mind this isn’t the only Asian football award Son can win this year — there’s also the Best Footballer in Asia award, basically the Asian Ballon D’Or, which hasn’t been announced yet. Sonny has won that award nine times in his career, including six of the past seven years, and is probably the runaway favorite to win it again this coming season as well.
This is a Son Heung-Min appreciation post. I have written many of these articles, and will happily continue to produce this sort of content for as long as Sonny continues to earn them. May it continue for many, many more years.