LONDON A half-hour or in view of that after Tottenham Hotspur had edged out Manchester City in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final, the club's further stadium was every but empty.A handful of fans remained, gazing out at the field, not quite ready to leave. Most of them had come to see Son Heung-min.The South Korean has long been an icon to those fans but, in Europe, it is different. There has never been any doubt nearly his talent, but it was not until those few weeks later he went supernova - that England, and Europe, started to afford Son the star treatment: the focus on whose non-attendance is worth fretting over, the player who might lead his team to the Champions League title.On the day of the truth neighboring Liverpool in which he might gum his area as a global superstar, it is worth asking why.In the summer of 2013, Bayer Leverkusen was sudden of a main sponsor. That June, at a cost of a club-record 10 million (S$15.4 million), the German team signed Son from Hamburg. In August that year, Leverkusen inked a three-year agreement later LG, the South Korean electronics firm, later Son becoming a brand ambassador. European football has long seen players from East Asia as one of two things. One is, essentially, a pretentiousness not handily of winning the hearts and minds of the vast audience friendly in Japan, South Korea and, especially China, but of attracting sponsors from those markets, too.The further insight is, perhaps, best illustrated by the charge of Park Ji-sung, the former Manchester allied midfielder.ROLE MODELSThere is a pretentiousness of looking at Korean or Japanese players that is the construction of an Asian masculine topic through the lens of the stereotype of the 'obedient citizen'.LIM HYUN-JOO, sociology lecturer, on the customary ways Asian players are viewed in Europe."Park was seen as a good player in England but, in many ways, he was invisible," said Lim Hyun-joo, a senior lecturer in sociology at Bournemouth University. "I was horror-struck by the reception in Korea: every the people went crazy for him. It was a truth contrast."Park spent seven years at antiquated Trafford, and was held in tall esteem by both fans and his manager, Alex Ferguson. Park's virtues were not necessarily joined to his talents, though: He was cherished for his industry, his energy, his discipline. He would often be tasked later man-marking the opposition's biggest threat.It was a charge psychoanalysis of how Europe views Asian players: they might sell jerseys, tickets and support deals off the auditorium but, on it, they are - first and foremost - good workers."It is the idea of the model minority," Lim said. "The coverage of Son that I've gate has focused a lot on his difficult work, his discipline, his filial piety."It is not necessarily conscious, not a deliberate try to devalue him. But there is a pretentiousness of looking at Korean or Japanese players that is the construction of an Asian masculine topic through the lens of the stereotype of the 'obedient citizen'."Almost 10 years ago, Apertura Sports noticed a gap in football's transfer market. More and more German clubs were hoping to win fans and commercial support in Japan, South Korea and China.The quickest route to a vast further audience seemed to be importing a player, a local hero, but few teams had the familiarity or achievement to recruit later much confidence. Apertura settled to be the bridge.With a Mandarin-speaking scout, Apertura set out to locate Chinese players, but found two Koreans instead. It pitched them to German clubs, but the appreciation was hardly effusive."A lot of clubs were not in fact responsive," said Johannes Graf Strachwitz, one of Apertura's co-founders. "They kind of waved the idea of signing Koreans off."Europe's scepticism nearly Asian players - that they were either good workers, or highly-paid billboards - was deep-seated.In 2003, Lee Young-pyo, a star of the Korean 2002 World cup squad, allied the Dutch team PSV Eindhoven, along later Park.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 semi-finals."He knew me well," Lee said. "However, my teammates had swap thoughts nearly me."By his own estimation, it took him a year or in view of that to win them over."I had to perspective the stereotype of an Asian player, and it took quite a time to prove my achievement to my fellow teammates," he said.The stereotype persists, though. Even now, Apertura finds that clubs have a "specific idea" of the type of player they might locate in Asia."They see them as dedicated, reliable, hard-working, respectful of older people, and never a hardship for a coach," Strachwitz said.In Son's case, of course, that is every true, but it does not begin to reach justice to the full range of his abilities as a player.The longer he demonstrates that, the more likely it is that clubs will begin to disregard it, that they will see in Korea and Japan not just for disciplined and trustworthy workers, but for potential superstars, too.Son is still topic to the stereotype. In time, he may still be the man to rupture it.NYTIMES
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