Son Heung-min is "GOAT", Cha Bum-kun, Park Ji-sung, S grade... Asia's All-Time Tier List Revealed

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A reporter from global media ESPN identified and released the tiers of players from Asia. Son Heung-min (LAFC) was evaluated as the only Asian "GOAT (Greatest Of All Time)," which means the best in history.

Barak Fever, a Mexican-Israeli journalist, released a tier list of Asian players on his social media (SNS) on the 8th (Korea time). The players were divided from GOAT, the highest tier, to S, A, and B. A total of five South Korean players were named.

Son Heung-min was in the only GOAT grade. Son Heung-min is considered the best player in Asia in name and reality, playing only for Tottenham in the English Premier League for 10 years, becoming the first Asian player to become the top scorer in the EPL and leading his team to win the UEFA Europa League last season. Son Heung-min was also the best player in Asia recently selected by soccer content media such as Mad Football and Final Score Football.

Following Son Heung-min, Cha Bum-keun and Park Ji-sung were classified as S-grade along with Iran's Alida Ai and Japan's Shinji Kagawa. Along with Son Heung-min, there can be no disagreement over the S-grade evaluation of Cha Bum-keun and Park Ji-sung, who are considered the best players in Asia beyond Korea. However, it is worth tilting your head that Ali Daiei and Gagawa are in the same grade as Cha Bum-keun and Park Ji-sung.

Kim Min-jae (Bayern Munich) was the only Korean player listed in the A grade. Japanese Keisuke Honda, Hidetoshi Nakata, Yuto Nagatomo (FC Tokyo), and Shunsuke Nakamura were also present. On top of that, Paulino Alcantara, born in 1896, who played for FC Barcelona in Spain in the 1910s and 1920s, and Saudi Arabia's Saeed Al-Owa Iran were classified as A.

In the last B grade, Kazuyoshi Miura (Fukushima United), who was born in 1967, is still active, along with "Wild Horse" Kim Joo-sung. Japanese players were Shinji Okazaki, Makoto Hasebe, Takumi Minamino (AS Monaco), and Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton and Hove Albion) in B grade, while Iran's Mehdi Mahdavikia and Javad Nekunam, Saudi Arabia's Sami Aljaber and Uzbekistan's Eldor Shomurodov (Bashakshehir).

Of the 22 Asian players included in the tier list, five were South Korean, but three were in the S grade or higher alone, including Son Heung-min. In Japan, the largest number of 10 people were selected, but all except Kagawa (grade A) were below grade A.

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