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Hand-shaking, history-making Heung-min Son certainly knows how to have a good time - and his form for Spurs has left more than just the merchandise smiling.
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00:00Hello, I'm Hyunmin Sun. This is my story.
00:10I started maybe when I was like nine years old and so before 2002 but I growing up with the
00:232002 World Cup in South Korea and watched a lot of games and this was my dream to play World Cup and
00:30yeah I had a good memory for that. Growing up and I watched a lot of times Cristiano Ronaldo
00:36and because he played Manchester United and his teammate Park Ji-sung was a South Korean player
00:44they played together. I watched him a lot of times so he's still my idol.
00:51He's a lot better than me and I just still watch him sometimes on YouTube or some video clips of him
01:01because I can still practice a lot from him. He is my agent. He went to South Korea and then
01:11with some scouters in Hamburg and Nuremberg and they picked three players each team
01:18and then my agent and Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg AS4, they picked me up and I joined the Hamburg AS4.
01:29Of course it was difficult but different as well. You know when I was 16 I left my country
01:35away from my parents but you know I was just thinking this is my dream to play in Europe.
01:41I need to take the chance you know I need to take the chance you know it's not coming every day you know
01:47I just took the chance you know for me it was difficult and away from parents away from country
01:54with 16 years old it's not it's not it's not the easy ones but I was in my head was just I was thinking
02:03this is just my dream I want to just keep working hard you know some people some players want to join here
02:10and no make it you know enjoy then you know I feel sorry I can good I had a good memory and
02:19I changed it to from Hamburg to Leverkusen and then my first game against Hamburg AS4 hat-trick
02:25and this is I feel sorry to to the Hamburg fans or Hamburg City because this is my 19 first memory
02:36because this was my first hat-trick against my ex-team and felt just sorry and my first hat-trick
02:47for me was a dream to play Premier League and before I moved to England I just told the
02:52before manager I want to change to England because
02:58I can't take the chance you know it's mine just dream to play Premier League and I growing up watched
03:04so many games in the Premier League you know and
03:07first game I had a little bit not good performance and everyone was worried about you know it's maybe
03:13the change was too early to from Germany to England everyone was talking about
03:17but I was confident to play here and the all the all the coaching staff and all the
03:25Tottenham behind me is they support me you know he made me better than before you know a lot of better
03:31you know I work really hard training is really good you know even though if I don't play the training
03:37session is always tough and you is always fit you know I can't it's it's big team is impossible
03:44because he is just unbelievable he's got so many goals he can score from everywhere you know
03:49for me it's just one of the best striker and I say after the game as well he's younger than me
03:57but he works really hard yeah this was my dream when when I growing up I was just thinking yeah when I
04:04play professional team everyone just look at me yeah this is my role model this honey like
04:11yeah this was my role this was my dream but I don't know is this the everyone thinking is yeah
04:18sonny is my role model but you know I won last season I won twice the premier play of the moms
04:28this make me so happy this was I think best best thing you can you can do
04:33what you want you know but in Korea they say you should you should dreaming bigger than bigger you
04:45know bigger than what you think you know yeah of course the football players are dreaming about
04:50ballon d'or or about winning winning for title you know and this is one of my dreams

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