{"id":25682,"date":"2024-02-14T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/25682\/tottenhams-son-injured-finger-in\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:00:41","slug":"tottenhams-son-injured-finger-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=25682","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham&#8217;s Son injured finger in teammate row at Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham&#8217;s Son injured finger in teammate row at Asian Cup\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur and South Korean captain Son Heung-Min injured his finger in an altercation with teammates on the eve of the country&#39;s exit from the Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The players argued at a team dinner before their 2-0 semi-final defeat to Jordan last week, which extended their 64-year wait for another Asian Cup title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis happened when young players went to play table tennis and Son Heung-Min and other older players challenged this,\u201d a South Korean <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"Football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Football<\/a> Association official told the Yonhap news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players exchanged a few words and Son injured his finger in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Korea Football Association was not immediately available for comment, but Son&#39;s teammate Lee Kang-in apologized for the incident.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Son Heung-Min&#39;s South Korea were knocked out of the Asian Cup by underrated Jordan. <cite>Markus Gilliar &#8211; GES Sportfoto\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;We have caused great disappointment to the football fans who always support our national team. I am truly sorry,&#8221; Paris Saint-Germain&#39;s Lee said in an Instagram story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I should have taken the lead and followed my brothers&#39; instructions, but I&#39;m just sorry for making football fans look bad. I apologize to the many people who were disappointed in me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom now on, I will try to help my brothers become better players and better people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Returning from the tournament in Qatar, Son left the bench during Tottenham&#39;s Premier League match against Brighton on Saturday with his right index and middle fingers tied together.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old helped Spurs to a 2-1 victory with a 96th-minute assist for goalscorer Brennan Johnson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham&#8217;s Son injured finger in teammate row at Asian Cup\u060c Tottenham Hotspur and South Korean captain Son Heung-Min injured his finger in an altercation with teammates on the eve of the country&#39;s exit from the Asian Cup. The players argued at a team dinner before their 2-0 semi-final defeat to Jordan last week, which extended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8965,40,2062,6807,2931,3426,6547,3351],"class_list":["post-25682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-asian","tag-cup","tag-finger","tag-injured","tag-row","tag-son","tag-teammate","tag-tottenhams"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25684,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25682\/revisions\/25684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}