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The best team of Asian players in the five major leagues: Son Heung-min leads, Park Ji-sung & Nakada Hideho takes charge

2:45am, 8 August 2025【Football】

Beijing Guoan later switched to Serie A Naples from Fenerbahce to the Turkish Premier League, and finally joined the Bundesliga class leader Bayern Munich. From Naples to Bayern Munich, they won the Serie A championship in the 2022-23 season and the Bundesliga championship in 2024, and both won the championship as the main team. Currently, Kim Min-ya averaged 3.1 steals per game in the Bundesliga, with a confrontation success rate of 68%.

The third one is Sun Jihai, known as the Chinese Suns, who played for Manchester City for seven seasons and was awarded the Premier League Hall of Fame player in 2012. In his career, he defended a number of European stars such as Henry and Ronaldo, who were in his age at the time, and had 3 exciting goals. The most Asian players in the Premier League have played in history (130 games), Manchester City's offense and defense core on the right. In terms of the midfield, the first thing is Park Ji-sung from South Korea.

In his career, he played for Eindhoven (2003-2005) and Manchester United (2005-2012). In the 2008 season, he won the Champions League with the team and was a four-continuous player in the Premier League. To be honest, although the South Korean team won in the 2002 World Cup, it was very disgraceful, but it ran all over the game and had a high success rate of steals. During the club, especially in the 2009 season, he regained the ball 12 times in a single game, setting a Premier League midfield record. After

, two consecutive Japanese players, Shinji Kagawa and Hidesu Nakada.

Hizuho Nakada played for two Serie A clubs during his career highlight, playing for Parma from 1998 to 2001, and playing for Roma from the Red Wolves in 2001 to 2003, especially leading Roma in the 2001 season to win the league championship of that season, and also ending the 5 consecutive championships of the Zebra Legion Juventus. As the core of the team, he has 12 goals and 8 assists in a single season. So far, he is still the holder of Asian players' transfer fee record. The transfer fee for joining Red Wolf that year was 28 million euros.

Kagawa Shinji has played for Bumblebee Dortmund and the Yin Super Red Devils Manchester United in his career. It was surprising that in the 2011-2012 season, Dortmund helped Dortmund win the Bundesliga championship twice, and also passed the German half-time MVP. As for the striker, Son Heung-min, the first Asian leader, has been elected as the first Asian Golden Boot player. Although he has terminated his contract with Tottenham and went to Los Angeles FC, he is the first Asian Golden Boot winner in the Premier League during his 10 years at Tottenham. He is also the Premier League Scorer Network, and has scored more than 150 goals. He made a substitute in the 2024 Champions League final and became the third Asian player to make his debut in the Champions League (the first two are Park Ji-sung who plays for Manchester United and Sun Xiang who plays for Eindhoven).

The other is the Iranian striker Alidei, who is a headache for the Chinese team. He played for Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga and Bayern Munich. At the club level, he won a record of 17 goals in a single season during his time at Bayern. At the national team level, he not only became the historical scorer of the Asian national team with a score of 109, but also scored 7 consecutive games in the 2004 World Cup Asian qualifiers.