Tottenham star Son Heung-min’s father Son Woong-jung has reportedly been 'summarily indicted’ for charges relating to 'abusing young players at his South Korean football training centre'.
The Tottenham captain started his side’s first two Premier League matches of the season and bagged a brace as Spurs thrashed Everton 4-0 last weekend.
The 32-year-old is in line to feature when his team travel to Newcastle on Sunday for their third match of the campaign.
According to Seoul-based news agency Yonhap, regional prosecutors in Chuncheon have said that Son and two of his assistant coaches at the Son Football Academy have been ‘ordered to pay an undisclosed fine and to complete a training programme designed to prevent further child abuse’.
And if the court or the defendants decide not to seek a public trial, the prosecutors’ orders will be finalised.
One of the assistant coaches is Son’s older brother Heung-yun. The three coaches are accused of ‘physically and verbally abusing young players’.
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The outlet have explained that the parents of one player reported Woong-jung and his staff to police in March. They claimed that their son had ‘sustained injuries to his thigh area that required two weeks of treatment’ after Heung-yun had ‘struck him with a corner flag’ during a training camp in Japan.
The boy’s parents said that Woong-jung had ‘hurled profanities at players for making mistakes’ during football sessions which had taken place at the same Okinawa camp.
The news agency reported that they had obtained and viewed video clips that showed Woong-jung ‘kicking a player during a match’ and other coaches ‘hurling profanities at players’. Woong-jung has maintained that many of the charges are ‘not true’ and has said that he ‘hasn’t done anything that was not based on love for the players at the academy’.
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Son Heung-min is one of Tottenham’s longest serving players, having joined the club from Bayer Leverkusen in 2015.
The forward has bagged 164 goals and 84 assists in 410 appearances for the Lilywhites and helped the club reach the Champions League final in 2019, where they lost 2-0 to Liverpool in Madrid.
Last season, Son featured 35 times in the Premier League and contributed 17 goals and 10 assists as his team narrowly missed out on Champions League qualification after finishing fifth in the table, two points behind fourth-place Aston Villa. The star has also racked up 48 goals in 127 appearances for South Korea and currently captains his country.