{"id":43405,"date":"2025-08-04T00:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43405\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T00:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:43:13","slug":"son-to-mls-lafc-reportedly-reaches-verbal-agreement-with-tottenham-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43405\/","title":{"rendered":"Son to MLS! LAFC Reportedly Reaches Verbal Agreement With Tottenham Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Major League Soccer will soon be home to another global icon, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/tottenham-hotspur-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> legend and South Korean superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/heung-min-son-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Son Heung-min<\/a> has reached a verbal agreement to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/los-angeles-fc-lafc-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles FC<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1952132774909059189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">multiple reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Son announced his decision to leave Tottenham after 10 years in an emotional press conference on Saturday. Son had his farewell with the club on Sunday with his teammates, Newcastle players and almost 65,000 fans at Seoul World Cup Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">The pre-season friendly in South Korea between the Premier League teams ended 1-1, with the high point being Son\u2019s second-half exit in likely his last game for Tottenham. The 33-year-old captain was surrounded by both sets of players before eventually sitting on the bench in tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Son scored 173 goals in 454 games for the London club but was unable to find the target in what Frank said is likely to be his last appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">His trademark &#8220;camera&#8221; goal celebration was, however, borrowed by Brennan Johnson who put Tottenham ahead after four minutes with a low shot from the edge of the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Want great stories delivered right to your inbox?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Create or log in to your FOX Sports account<\/a>, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!<\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 1<\/p>\n<p>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MLS.vresize.160.160.medium.0.png\" alt=\"MLS\" class=\"team-logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"\/> Get more from the MLS Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Soccer will soon be home to another global icon, as Tottenham Hotspur legend and South Korean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-43405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}