Jim Alexander: LAFC unveiled the city’s latest Asian star Wednesday, introducing South Korea’s Son Heung-min at a mid-afternoon news conference. (Not great timing, considering that L.A.’s other Asian superstar, Shohei Ohtani, was at work in Chavez Ravine at that very moment, but you take your opportunities when you can, I suppose.)

The positive: Son seems to be a legitimate difference-maker, a star in the Premier League for Tottenham Hotspur (and for the TV folks out there unfamiliar with English “football,” it’s pronounced “Tott’nm.”) He will appeal to Southern California’s large Korean population. And his command of English is very good, so no interpreter will be needed.

There is a negative, though, and it’s no fault of Son or LAFC. This would be the sort of signing that would get (an

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