Son Heung-min documentary: weight loss, Korean BBQ and an appetite for football

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Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min reacts after losing to Liverpool in the English Premier League. Photo: Reuters

Published: 2:17pm, 2 Feb 2021Updated: 2:17pm, 2 Feb 2021

“Football is everything in my life,” says Son Heung-min in Sonsational: The Making of Son Heung-min and that really comes across in the new 90-minute Amazon Prime Sport documentary released last month.

The 28-year-old South Korean superstar lives for his career to the point where his new house is chosen in large part as it is closer to the Tottenham Hotspur training ground and because its swimming pool and gym aid his recovery, especially when he suffers from insomnia after night games.

There is nothing much else in the house, thanks to Son’s father, Son Woong-jung, who exhibits a commitment to minimalism that Marie Kondo might deem unsentimental. If it does not help Son become a better footballer then out it goes.

A former footballer who retired through injury, Son senior is single-minded: “Mine is a father’s heart that wants his son to focus on soccer.”

He has guided the English Premier League star’s career from the start and he still does to the point where he wakes his son up for training every morning.

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