LONDON A half-hour or thus after Tottenham Hotspur had edged out Manchester City in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final, the club's supplementary 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 virtually his talent, but it was not until those few weeks next he went supernova - that England, and Europe, started to afford Son the star treatment: the direct whose non-attendance is worth fretting over, the player who might lead his team to the Champions League title.On the hours of daylight of the total adjoining Liverpool in which he might glue his area as a global superstar, it is worth asking why.In the summer of 2013, Bayer Leverkusen was hasty 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 deal next LG, the South Korean electronics firm, next Son becoming a brand ambassador. European football has long seen players from East Asia as one of two things. One is, essentially, a artifice not suitably of winning the hearts and minds of the vast audience handy in Japan, South Korea and, especially China, but of attracting sponsors from those markets, too.The supplementary acuteness is, perhaps, best illustrated by the war of Park Ji-sung, the former Manchester united midfielder.ROLE MODELSThere is a artifice 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 enjoyable 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 shocked by the reception in Korea: every the people went crazy for him. It was a total contrast."Park spent seven years at archaic Trafford, and was held in high idolization by both fans and his manager, Alex Ferguson. Park's virtues were not necessarily related to his talents, though: He was cherished for his industry, his energy, his discipline. He would often be tasked next man-marking the opposition's biggest threat.It was a war assay of how Europe views Asian players: they might sell jerseys, tickets and backing deals off the sports ground 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 way in has focused a lot on his hard work, his discipline, his filial piety."It is not necessarily conscious, not a deliberate attempt to devalue him. But there is a artifice 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 personal ad backing in Japan, South Korea and China.The quickest route to a vast supplementary audience seemed to be importing a player, a local hero, but few teams had the familiarity or deed to recruit next much confidence. Apertura approved 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 tribute was hardly effusive."A lot of clubs were not really responsive," said Johannes Graf Strachwitz, one of Apertura's co-founders. "They kind of waved the idea of signing Koreans off."Europe's scepticism virtually 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, united the Dutch team PSV Eindhoven, along next 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 vary thoughts virtually me."By his own estimation, it took him a year or thus to win them over."I had to slope the stereotype of an Asian player, and it took quite a get older to prove my deed 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 trouble for a coach," Strachwitz said.In Son's case, of course, that is every true, but it does not begin to complete 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 obedient workers, but for potential superstars, too.Son is nevertheless topic to the stereotype. In time, he may nevertheless be the man to rupture it.NYTIMES
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