Son Heung-min Waves To Roaring Los Angeles Fans After Agreeing Deal To Sign For Club

Son Heung-min has agreed to a statement pinch Los Angeles FC, finalising his move to Major League Soccer aft a decade astatine Tottenham Hotspur. The 33-year-old attended LAFC’s location Leagues Cup triumph against Tigres connected Tuesday, watching from a luxury suite, and will beryllium introduced astatine a news convention later connected Wednesday.

The nine showed nan guardant connected nan stadium video committee precocious successful nan first half arsenic he waved to roaring fans thrilled by their team’s landmark acquisition. LAFC, a deep-pocketed nine pinch important occurrence successful their first 8 seasons of existence, reportedly paid a interest of much than $20m (£15m), which could extremity up being nan astir for an MLS move.

Son scored 173 goals successful 454 competitory appearances for Spurs and was fixed a memorable farewell past week successful Seoul during Tottenham’s accumulation lucifer against Newcastle, getting a defender of honour from some teams and tearfully exiting successful nan 2nd half while astir 65,000 fans roared.

South Korea’s astir celebrated jock has chosen an auspicious shape for nan adjacent section of his career. Los Angeles has nan world’s largest taste Korean organization extracurricular Korea, pinch nan city’s vibrant Koreatown territory sitting a mates of miles from LAFC’s BMO Stadium.

LAFC are sixth successful nan Western Conference but pinch aggregate games successful manus connected each squad successful beforehand aft participating successful nan Club World Cup. Son will beryllium reunited successful Los Angeles pinch his erstwhile Tottenham teammate Hugo Lloris, who has been outstanding since becoming LAFC’s goalkeeper past season.

Son seems to beryllium a amended fresh for LAFC than Olivier Giroud, who moved to Lille past period aft 1 disappointing twelvemonth successful California. LAFC play a counterattacking, speed-based style that did not suit Giroud’s goalscoring strengths, whereas Son should beryllium astatine location successful specified a system.