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Son Heung-min and South Korea head to North America with a sense of foreboding threatening to envelop them, for what will surely be their talisman’s last World Cup.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old skipper has faced growing questions about his faltering form and international future while coach Hong Myung-bo is deeply unpopular with fans.<\/p>\n

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Pre-World Cup friendlies only added to the sense of disgruntlement, thrashed 4-0 by the Ivory Coast and beaten 1-0 by Austria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, Hong was moved to defend Son, who left Premier League Tottenham last year for Los Angeles FC<\/a> in the MLS with his best days seemingly behind him.<\/p>\n

“Son Heung-min is the heart of our team and I have never once doubted that,” Hong told reporters.<\/p>\n

South Korea are in Group A alongside the Czech Republic, South Africa<\/a> and co-hosts Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They face the Czechs in Guadalajara on the opening day of the tournament on June 11.<\/p>\n

If South Korea are to get out of the group they will need the attacker Son to start firing again.<\/p>\n

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He has scored 54 goals in 143 games for his country and been their inspiration for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n

But his powers are clearly on the wane and he has hardly lit up the MLS since Spurs<\/a> let him go in August last year.<\/p>\n

Following the friendly defeat to Austria in England<\/a> in March, during which Son fluffed his lines, he defiantly denied that he had lost his goalscoring touch.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think I’ve suffered any dip in my performance,” the Yonhap News agency quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n

“When the time comes for me to leave the national team, then I will do it on my own.<\/p>\n

“It’s disappointing that people talk about decline whenever I hit a dry spell.”<\/p>\n

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Son will be desperate to make up for what was a miserable 2022 Qatar World Cup for him.<\/p>\n

He was shadow of himself, forced to wear a mask to protect a fractured eye socket and failing to score as South Korea were bundled out in the last 16 with a 4-1 hammering by Brazil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– Coach jeered –<\/p>\n

South Korea fans saw their side comfortably reach the World Cup unbeaten in qualifying, but they have low expectations of what the team will do in North America.<\/p>\n

“Fans’ collective confidence level seems to be at an all-time low,” Yonhap said this month.<\/p>\n

The country’s best World Cup performance remains reaching the semi-finals in 2002 when they co-hosted. Since, they have never gone beyond the last 16.<\/p>\n

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During qualifying, supporters consistently jeered the 57-year-old coach Hong, who led South Korea to a meek group-stage exit at the 2014 World Cup, when they failed to win a game.<\/p>\n

Son has pleaded with supporters to get behind the team and the coach.<\/p>\n

Fans also have the knives out for the Korea Football Association over the process that saw Hong reappointed two years ago.<\/p>\n

Before him were two interim managers and there was the disastrous appointment of Jurgen Klinsmann, who was sacked after just 12 turbulent months.<\/p>\n

After the demoralising losses to the Ivory Coast and Austria, Hong defended his use of three centre-backs and wingbacks, saying he wanted his side to be tactically flexible.<\/p>\n

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“Our players have been playing in the back-four formation for a long time,” he said.<\/p>\n

“But we’ve all seen that we can’t afford to take just one set of tactics to the World Cup.”<\/p>\n

South Korea’s squad is mostly based abroad and takes in an array of overseas leagues in the United States, Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n

Kim Min-jae<\/a> has been a mainstay in central defence for his country and at 29 the Bayern Munich<\/a> man dubbed “Monster” should be at his peak.<\/p>\n

Lee Kang-in<\/a> is another who has proven pedigree in top European football, first with Valencia<\/a> and Mallorca<\/a> and now with Paris Saint-Germain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The versatile attacker has been used sparingly by PSG and is linked with a move away this summer.<\/p>\n

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