Tottenham Hotspur star Heung-Min Son became the first Asian player to score 100 Premier League goals after his stunning strike vs Brighton on Saturday.

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The 30-year-old, who joined Spurs in 2015, also made history by becoming the first Asian player to ever win the Golden Boot. At the conclusion of the 2021–22 season, both Son and Mohamed Salah of Liverpool, who is Egyptian, finished with 23 goals.

The South Korean was scoring an average of once per 3.8 games, which is half of his results from the previous season, when he scored once every 1.8 games. Son has scored just three goals in the Premier League since the end of the international break in September; his other three goals came in a thumping of relegation hopefuls Leicester City.

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He is renowned for his lightning-quick speed, finishing ability, two-footedness, and play-linking skills.

He joined Bayer Leverkusen in 2013 for a club-record €10 million, then two years later, he signed with Tottenham for £22 million, making him the most expensive Asian player in history.

He broke Cha Bum-kun’s record for most goals scored by a Korean player in European competition while playing for Tottenham and rose to the highest Asian goalscorer in both Premier League and Champions League history. After his fellow countryman Park Ji-sung in 2019, he became the second Asian to ever start in a UEFA Champions League final. He was the first Asian player to win the Premier League Golden Boot in the 2021–2022 season, sharing it with Mohamed Salah.

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Son’s accomplishments outside of football are seen as a source of pride for South Koreans, and he has been included in the Forbes Korea Power Celebrity 40 list from 2019, where he finished third in 2022.

Son was awarded the Cheongnyong Medal in June 2022 for his football accomplishments, the highest honor of merit in sports awarded to a citizen of South Korea.