Son Heung-Min. Great for MLS? Absolutely. Goal of the Year winner? Pause.

Since Son Heung-Min joined Major League Soccer, the league has had another bona fide player to tout as a fresh face in his prime playing the American game.

It’s been great for a league that has long been chastised for being full of aging Eurostars looking to collect a final paycheck. Sure, there are still plenty of those — see Charlotte’s Wilfried Zaha and Vancouver’s Thomas Müller as examples — but for the most part, MLS has focused a lot more on grassroots approaches to bettering the sport from an academy level and finding a lot of that investment now cracking the first team across many of of MLS’s 30

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