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SON Heung-min was everywhere around Education City Stadium with South Korean fans sporting his shirt and a giant cutout of his face, but on the pitch their talisman was a subdued figure in yesterday’s 0-0 World Cup stalemate with Uruguay.

All the talk among South Korean supporters in the build-up to their opener in Qatar was about the fate of superstar forward Heung-min.

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