{"id":87928,"date":"2025-10-10T17:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=87928"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:41:59","slug":"son-heung-min-set-to-make-s-korean-history-in-brazil-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/son-heung-min-set-to-make-s-korean-history-in-brazil-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Son Heung-min set to make S. Korean history in Brazil friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea captain aims to surpass legends Cha Bum-kun and Hong Myung-bo in upcoming clash<br \/>\nSEOUL<br \/>\nSouth Korea captain Son Heung-min is set to break his country\u2019s record for most appearances for the men\u2019s national team when they host Brazil on Friday.<br \/>\nThe Los Angeles FC striker is poised to win his 137th cap in the glamour friendly in Seoul, which acts as build-up towards the World Cup in North America next year.<br \/>\nSouth Korea and Brazil have both qualified for the 2026 finals, for what will be the 33-year-old Son\u2019s fourth World Cup.<br \/>\nFormer Tottenham skipper Son, who moved to Major League Soccer in August, is tied with former defender Hong Myung-bo and ex-striker Cha Bum-kun with 136 games for South Korea.<br \/>\nSon will trump Cha and Hong \u2014 who is now South Korea\u2019s coach \u2014 assuming that he takes to the field at Seoul World Cup Stadium against Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s Brazil.<br \/>\nIf he does not play then, he will have another chance at home to Paraguay on Tuesday, when there will also be a commemorative event to mark his achievement.<br \/>\nSon made his senior international debut in December 2010 and has scored 53 goals.<br \/>\nBrazil thrashed South Korea 4-1 when they met in the last 16 at the 2022 Qatar World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea captain aims to surpass legends Cha Bum-kun and Hong Myung-bo in upcoming clash SEOUL South Korea captain Son Heung-min is set to break his country\u2019s record for most appearances for the men\u2019s national team when they host Brazil on Friday. The Los Angeles FC striker is poised to win his 137th cap in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":87945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87946,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87928\/revisions\/87946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}