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"I wanted to bring Son Heung-min". An episode revealed by the Austrian head coach
Ralf Rangnick (68, Germany), Hong Myung-bo Team's last A-match warm-up match in March, introduced his relationship with Son Heung-min (34, LAFC) when he was the head coach of a professional team in the past.
According to local reports, including Sky Sports' Austrian version, Rangnick confessed at a pre-official press conference in Vienna, Austria, on the 31st (Korea time), a day before the warm-up match against South Korea, that "I wanted to bring Son to Hoffenheim when he was 18 years old."
After dropping out of Northeast High School from FC Seoul Youth, Son Heung-min joined the Hamburg SV Youth Team in Germany and headed to the European stage, and later made his professional debut through Hamburg Youth. Coach Rangnick said Son Heung-min was leading Hoffenheim in the German Bundesliga when he was a U-19 youth in Hamburg, and that he recognized Son's talent early on and pushed for recruitment.
Coach Rangnick said, "(Son Heung-min's recruitment) has almost reached an agreement," but he was belatedly disappointed with the failed transfer. "Since then, Son Heung-min has become the most popular player in Asia and an absolute legend at Tottenham," he said, adding, "If you look at the situation of Kevin Danso's team now, Son Heung-min seems to be really needed."
In preparation for the warm-up match against South Korea led by head coach Hong Myung-bo, Rangnick said, "I think South Korea will show better performance than it did during the last Ivory Coast (0-4 loss). "I don't think I can score three to four goals lightly (against Korea like Ivory Coast)."
Coach Rangnick then said, "We will give as many players as possible and as many players as possible a chance to prove themselves," and expressed his intention to make the most of the rules that can be replaced up to 11 chapters according to the agreement between the two teams.
The warm-up match between Korea and Austria will be held at 3:45 a.m. on the 1st of next month at Ernst Havel Stadion in Vienna, Austria. It is Hong Myung-bo Team's last warm-up match before the announcement of the final entry for the World Cup.
In the first warm-up match of the A-match period in March, South Korea was defeated 0-4 by Ivory Coast, but Austria defeated Ghana 5-1. Austria is the first team to play in the World Cup finals in 28 years since the 1998 French competition, and this is the first time it has faced South Korea.
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