Coach of Ghana's 2022 World Cup opponent South Korea Paulo Bento, has hailed Son Heung-min's golden boot winning performance as a watershed moment for the country's football after the Tottenham Hotspur forward finished the season as the Premier League's joint-top scorer with Mohamed Salah.
Spurs defeated Norwich City 5-0 on Sunday to secure a place in the Champions League. Son, the first Asian player to top the English Premier League scoring charts, scored twice to join Liverpool's Mohamed Salah on 23 goals for the season.
"I think that is a good achievement for him, all of us would like to congratulate him," said Bento.
"It's important for himself, but also important for the team as well as for Korean football.
"It was an achievement that helped the team to reach an important goal, that is to play next season in the Champions League, and this is the most important.
"All of us are happy for him."
Son has been in superb form all season and has also helped his country qualify for the World Cup, scoring four times in the final round of Asia's qualifying matches to ensure Bento's side a place in Qatar.
The 29-year-old has been named to Bento's 28-man squad for a series of friendlies in early June, as the South Koreans begin their preparations for the finals with games against Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and an opponent who has yet to be named.
"This training camp will be the most difficult training camp we will have until now, but it is what we need to face," said Bento.
"It's not important to talk too much about the schedule and about our opponents, the most important is that I try to fix it to arrange the best solutions to face the three strong opponents in a short period of time with a difficult context."
South Korea have been drawn in Group H at November's World Cup, where they will face Portugal, Uruguay and Ghana.
Black Stars will be hoping to nullify the threats of Son as well as other star players in the group such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez.