Eminently likeable, prodigiously skilled and clutch in the big moments, Son Heung-min is football's modern-day movie star.
Unfortunately for the Socceroos, South Korea's smiling assassin, and Ange Postecoglou's captain at Tottenham, stands between them and an Asian Cup semi-final.
"I rang Ange and asked Ange if he can take him back," Socceroos coach Graham Arnold joked.