{"id":10562,"date":"2025-10-09T10:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=10562"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:59:23","slug":"son-heung-min-set-to-make-south-korean-history-in-brazil-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/sports\/son-heung-min-set-to-make-south-korean-history-in-brazil-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Son Heung-min set to make South Korean history in Brazil friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul (AFP) \u2013 South Korea captain Son Heung-min is set to break his country&#8217;s record for most appearances for the men&#8217;s national team when they host Brazil on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Los Angeles FC striker is poised to win his 137th cap in the glamour friendly in Seoul, which acts as build-up towards the World Cup in North America next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea and Brazil have both qualified for the 2026 finals, for what will be the 33-year-old Son&#8217;s fourth World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Tottenham skipper Son, who moved to Major League Soccer in August, is tied with former defender Hong Myung-bo and ex-striker Cha Bum-kun with 136 games for South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Son will trump Cha and Hong &#8212; who is now South Korea&#8217;s coach &#8212; assuming that he takes to the field at Seoul World Cup Stadium against Carlo Ancelotti&#8217;s Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If he does not play then, he will have another chance at home to Paraguay on Tuesday, when there will also be a commemorative event to mark his achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Son made his senior international debut in December 2010 and has scored 53 goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil thrashed South Korea 4-1 when they met in the last 16 at the 2022 Qatar World Cup.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul (AFP) \u2013 South Korea captain Son Heung-min is set to break his country&#8217;s record for most appearances for the men&#8217;s national team when they host Brazil on Friday. The Los Angeles FC striker is poised to win his 137th cap in the glamour friendly in Seoul, which acts as build-up towards the World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}