Ballon d’Or: Son Heung-min moves step closer to ‘dream’ as he joins Virgil Van Dijk, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo on longlist

• Spurs’ South Korean superstar is among first-nominees on 30-man longlist but no place for last year’s winner Luka Modric
• No Asian players have won men’s award but Japan’s Homare Sawa won women’s equivalent in 2011