{"id":165364,"date":"2025-09-18T12:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165364\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:05:06","slug":"lafc-son-heung-min-claims-first-major-league-soccer-hat-trick-since-leaving-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165364\/","title":{"rendered":"LAFC: Son Heung-min claims first Major League Soccer hat-trick since leaving Tottenham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Son Heung-min scored his first Major League Soccer hat-trick as Los Angeles FC won 4-1 at Real Salt Lake on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The South Korea forward struck twice in the opening 16 minutes to put LAFC 2-0 up before completing his treble to make it 3-1 on 82 minutes.<\/p>\n

That took the 33-year-old’s tally to five goals in six games for LAFC since ending his 10-year spell with Tottenham to move to the US last month.<\/a><\/p>\n

“It’s amazing to get my first hat-trick in the MLS,” said Son. “I’m very happy and grateful to everyone.<\/p>\n

“Even if I don’t score, I enjoy playing for this club and getting a good result away from home.<\/p>\n

“I’m enjoying every single moment, every single training session and every single game.”<\/p>\n

Team-mate Denis Bouanga completed the scoring with his 94th goal in all competitions for LAFC, putting him above Mexico forward Carlos Vela<\/a> as the club’s all-time leading scorer.<\/p>\n

Bouanga, who joined from French club St-Etienne in 2022, now has 19 MLS goals this season and is behind only Nashville’s English striker Sam Surridge (21) and Inter Miami superstar Lionel Messi (20).<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old Gabon forward unselfishly laid the ball off for Son to register LAFC’s second hat-trick in as many games, after Bouanga scored a treble in Saturday’s 4-2 win at the San Jose Earthquakes.<\/p>\n

LAFC’s latest win lifted them to fourth in the Western Conference, above the Seattle Sounders, and they have six regular-season games remaining.<\/p>\n

Real Salt Lake visit Los Angeles on Sunday, when LAFC will honour the club’s first signing, Vela. The 36-year-old retired from professional football in May and has become LAFC’s first club ambassador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Son Heung-min scored his first Major League Soccer hat-trick as Los Angeles FC won 4-1 at Real Salt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-165364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}