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Jul 24 2024

Kim Min-jae and Lee Jae-sung will also meet soon

According to the Korea Football Association on the 20th, Hong met with Son Heung-min somewhere in London, England, on the afternoon of the previous day local time.

"Son Heung-min had a team practice game on Saturday (20th), and the meeting took place on the afternoon of the 19th. We talked alone for about an hour," a KFA source said. "What we talked about is an issue that Hong will discuss in person."

Coach Hong, who visited Europe in search of a foreign coach to assist him, is accompanied by a staff member who is fluent in English and Spanish.

At the meeting with Son Heung-min, he bit the employee and "double-handed."

As the new national team is launched in a very chaotic atmosphere, Son Heung-min, who is so influential inside and outside the team that he cannot compare with other players, seems to have sent a message that he hopes to hold the center well.

Coach Hong, who has always emphasized "one team," said at a press conference at a K-League game after the nomination of the national team head coach, "It is true that the national team has many good players," adding, "If you put your talent on the top of dedication and sacrifice, you will exert enormous power, but if you put it on the top of your selfishness, you will not be able to demonstrate it."

Son Heung-min is the first to meet with the player since Hong became the head coach of the national team.

On the 20th, Hong will move to Germany to meet Kim Min-jae (Munich) and Lee Jae-sung (Mainz), the core players of the national team's defense and midfield, respectively.

It is then reported that he plans to go to Serbia and meet Hwang In-beom and Seol Young-woo, who are eating together in Tsurvena or Zvezda.