End-to-end games, edge-of-your-seat entertainment and several eye-catching results - as we all continue to settle in to another Premier League season along came a weekend boasting the highest number of goals per game in the competition's history.Eight matches yielded 39 goals across a marvellously chaotic weekend, as three separate Premier League games witnessed seven goals for just the third time ever.The 21 goals scored on Saturday alone set a record for the most on a single day (featuring up to four matches) in the competition's history.And just when the excitement appeared to be coming to an end, Leicester City's fourth and final goal against Burnley on Sunday also secured this weekend's round of games a place in the top 10 all-time highest scoring Premier League weekends. There are still genuine structural obstacles to Asian players traveling to Europe, following in Son’s footsteps — the distance for one, but also FIFA regulations governing the transfer of minors and the fact that much of youth soccer in Korea is played in schools rather than specialized academies — but more and more clubs are taking an interest in Korean, and Japanese, players, Strachwitz said. “They kind of waved the idea of signing Koreans off.”.Europe’s skepticism about Asian players — that they were either good workers, or highly-paid billboards — was deep-seated. “Park was seen as a good player in England, but in many ways he was invisible.
⚽ … He tries, he tries again and again.”.To Lim, there is a resonance in the way Europe treats its Asian soccer players with the way the United States has sometimes viewed its Asian immigrant communities. Tottenham Hotspur's South Korean striker Son Heung-min began his three-week military training at a marines boot camp on Monday, a report said, … [Sign up for Rory Smith’s weekly newsletter on world soccer: Rory Smith on Soccer.] “It is starting to grow year on year,” he said.The stereotype persists, though. His team were not performing to anywhere near their best before the Korean got the game by the scruff of the neck.And Kane's superb passing shows an existing relationship between the two that, as far as,In Man City's first game of the new campaign, the Belgian ran the show and claimed a goal and an assist for himself,In his thesis the Italian laid out his ideas about the game and it offers an insight into what type of Juve he will try to build,RB Leipzig lost Timo Werner to Chelsea in this transfer window, but in Laimer they have a player who holds greater significance,In the final game of the first round of Serie A fixtures in the 2020/21 campaign, the veteran striker shone for Milan,Since 2015, only 7.8% of all minutes played were by players 21 or younger - the lowest of the Big Five Leagues,The Italian top-flight kicked off this weekend, with the Rossoneri set to feature in the last game of the round at San Siro.Copyright 2020, Footballcritic Inc. All right reserved.Southampton 2-5 Tottenham: Player Ratings, Match Stats and Player Stats,Son scored a perfect 10 FC Rating for his quadruple at St. Mary's,Ronald Koeman tells Riqui Puig to leave Barcelona,Five news stories that show Barcelona's meltdown is getting worse.Is Lautaro Martinez better suited to Barcelona, or Real Madrid?Kevin De Bruyne: Player Rating and Performance v Wolves,What Juventus' Andrea Pirlo thinks about football,Why your team needs a player like Konrad Laimer,Zlatan Ibrahimovic: Player Rating and Performance v Bologna,The kids aren't alright: EPL ranked bottom for offering minutes to young players,How Chelsea and Liverpool could line-up at Stamford Bridge,Edouard Mendy: Chelsea signing's stats v Kepa in 2019/20,Cristiano Ronaldo: Player Rating and Performance v Sampdoria,Heung-Min Son: Player Rating & Performance v Southampton. One is, essentially, as a marketing strategy: a way not simply of winning the hearts and minds of the vast audience available in Japan, South Korea and, especially, China, but of attracting sponsors from those markets, too.The other objective is, perhaps, best illustrated by the case of Park Ji-sung, the former Manchester United midfielder who remains, until Saturday, the only Korean player ever to feature in a Champions League final.“I remember going to see a game in Seoul when Park was playing for Manchester United,” said Lim Hyun-joo, a senior lecturer in sociology at Bournemouth University. Tottenham Hotspur striker Son Heung-min was named one of the top five recruits in his unit as he finished three weeks of compulsory military training in South Korea on Friday.... more » 20.04.2020 07:51. “It was not just Leverkusen fans that loved him; it was fans of lots of clubs.” Pochettino first tried to sign Son when he was still coaching Southampton. The quality is key: they have to be good enough to play.“Eventually, he came back and said he had found two. There you go.Read about our approach to external linking. Son notched his first effort in first-half injury time from Kane’s first-time pass, and the striker slipped the winger in again just two minutes after the break. So did Park, his international teammate.Lee knew he had the faith of his coach: PSV’s Guus Hiddink had, after all, guided that South Korea team to the World Cup semifinals. Southampton, for the first half, were simply superb. One fan tweeted: 'That was … Tottenham had no answer to their attacking play and could not find any rhythm of their own. In August, Leverkusen agreed to a three-year deal with LG, the South Korean electronics firm, to plaster its name on its jerseys.