South Africa’s Lars Veldwijk Selected for K League Side to Take On Tottenham Hotspur in Exhibition Game

• Bafana Bafana striker Lars Veldwijk has been selected to play for a K League All-Star team to take on Tottenham Hotspur
• Striker Lars Veldwijk was the highest-scoring South African player in the world during the year 2021
• The K League All-Stars will take on Tottenham Hotspur in a special exhibition game on 12 July on South Korea

South Africa’s Lars Veldwijk will get a taste of playing against Premier League opposition this month.

The Suwon FC striker will face off against the likes of Harry Kane and Heung-min Son during a special exhibition match.

As reported by KickOff, Veldwijk was selected as part of a 24-man K League team to take on Tottenham Hotspur on 12 July. K League is the South Korean main league.

Veldwijk is only one of five foreigners who were selected for the All-Star K League side. The exhibition match will take place at the Seoul World Cup Stadium.

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The Bafana Bafana striker was the K League’s second-highest goal scorer for the past season with 18 goals.

With the new season already kicking off in South Korea, Veldwijk has already scored two goals and notched up five assists.

He has been extremely lethal in front of goal in Korea and even ended the 2021 calendar year as the leading South African goal scorer in the world.

His performances recently also earned him a nomination for the FIFA 22 team of the season, Soccer Laduma reported.

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The Dutch-born player qualified to play for South Africa through his paternal lineage but has only played 7 games for the country. He also failed to score in those 7 games.

In the South Korean League though, Veldwijk has scored 23 goals in 56 appearances for the club, and in 2021, he was the highest-scoring South African in the world.