Son Heung-min

Son Heung-min

LW · LAFC · South Korea

Son Heung-min at the 2026 World Cup

Son Heung-min is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC and captains the South Korea national team. A left winger for South Korea, Son Heung-min is tasked with stretching defences and creating from wide at the 2026 World Cup.

South Korea go into the tournament as dark horses at 0.4% per Polymarket's live market, and much of that case rests on set-piece threat: exactly the area Son Heung-min is there to drive. His understanding with Kim Min-jae could decide how South Korea's tournament unfolds.

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South Korea's Group A fixtures