Son Heung-min, captain of the South Korean men's national football team, speaks to reporters before a training session for the FIFA World Cup at Zions Bank Training Center in Herriman, Utah, Tuesday (local time). Yonhap
HERRIMAN, United States — Gearing up for his fourth FIFA World Cup this summer, South Korea captain Son Heung-min is closing in on a record in a career full of many.
Son has netted three goals so far in his World Cup career, tied with retired stars Ahn Jung-hwan and Park Ji-sung for the most by a South Korean player. Son had a goal in his World Cup debut in Brazil in 2014 and had two more four years later in Russia.
One more goal will make Son, 33, the best South Korean goal scorer in World Cup history, but the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) star insisted Tuesday he wasn't paying much mind to his individual stats.
"Obviously, it's impossible not to be hearing about these records. People have been telling me about them, and fans have taken great interest in them," Son told reporters at Zions Bank Training Center in Herriman, in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, the site of the national team training camp. "But I've just not been thinking too much about them. If I put the team above all else and worry about how I can best help the team first, then goals will naturally follow. That's how I've been playing my whole career, and that mindset won't change."
