Happy for him.
Son Heung-min | Spurs
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Good news all round. The PL needs him.
Pride of Asia.
It got a little nervy at the end, but very well deserved. Absolutely delighted for him.
It got a little nervy at the end, but very well deserved. Absolutely delighted for him.
Well shucks
Draft dodging traitor.
Actually pretty happy for him from personal point of view.
Glad for him.
That’s potentially a few millions he’ll be missing out if he needs to serve.
That’s potentially a few millions he’ll be missing out if he needs to serve.
I wonder what he himself thinks about serving? Would he be proud?
Seeing by his celebration after match, i'm sure he is very happy not to serve.
You have to wonder... would they have won if they weren't all under threat of military service?
It's a bloody waste of his time and career.
I wish i will be that happy too one day
I'm not sure if I'm correct, but he has spent a lot of time outside of Korea (I think since his teens). So I doubt he has any real desire to go back just for that.
I'm no expert on this but isn't "military service" for someone like him not just sitting behind a desk? Remember to have read something like that, in that case not really something to be "proud" of and let's be honest, mandatory military service in a 21th century democrazy is really outdated.
Germany is planning to bring it back apparently. Yes, as he's been out of Korea for a while, he can only be a low-level civil servant.
He'd be a civil servant because he never graduated high school. I don't think it has anything to do with him living out of country.
His country is technically still at war, with a crazy dictator...
Not a situation many westerners can relate too...
I'm sure he would be proud in terms of serving his country however he most certainly won't have wanted to do it. Financially would cost him millions and would lose 2 years of his career and probably a 3rd trying to get back to fitness. (4 if he played for the military club team). He serves his country every time he steps on a pitch anyway.
No, we won't bring it back, that's a complete impossibility by our law. There were only a few politicians thinking about it but there is really zero chance for it, it's not compatible with the "Grundgesetz".
I'd say any westerner who has at least some memories of the time before 1990 can relate and let's be real, it's not like any modern war would be fought with soldiers on the ground.
Military service is good, learns you discipline.
Nah, just kidding, glad for him, he won't have to go to the trenches.
Nah, just kidding, glad for him, he won't have to go to the trenches.
Good for him, he’s a nice guy. Winning a trophy as well, that won’t happen often at the club he’s currently with
Can speak for my country, mandatory military service was abolished in 1999-2000 iirc
Good. Now go fecking help beat Liverpool.
Absolutely delighted for him and also very relieved.
Not when you share borders with a country led by a raving madman who happens to have nukes.
It's really good.
He worked his nuts off fair play. Plenty of dog in him.
No, some politicians recently suggested it, but we're far from bringing it back.
Canada's introducing it?
Well played.Seems a bit harsh that he would've been forced to take 2 years out of his successful career for military service. You would think that some further exemptions would apply.
Thanks to the ban on dog meat trade, he'll come for you next.
Hang on, he had to win to avoid military service? That's a pretty fecking barbaric incentive but effective I guess!
What's ridiculous is not that he was to serve in the army, considering his home country situation, but that winning a football game decide if you serve or not. Straight from a shite mercenary movie or Gladiator.
Brilliant. Would have been pretty stupid if one of the world’s best Asian players had his career cut off like that.
Well done.