He who had never been titled, Harry Kane broke the curse by winning the title of German champion with Bayern Munich on Sunday.
A few days before the formalization of the coronation, the honorary president of the Munich giant Uli Hoeness, paid the Sky channel a very supported tribute to his attacker: “There is no one else who will have him more than him. He fights, he works, he scores an incredible number of goals, but he also works for the whole team. »»
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Celebration in a restaurant
A few minutes after Leverkusen’s draw on the lawn of Friborg (2-2), meeting he followed in a Munich restaurant with his teammates and who assured the title in Bayern, Kane published a story on his Instagram account, a gold trophy on a black background and a publication where we see him celebrating in Champagne.
Recruited for 100 million euros, a record sum for the Bundesliga, the former figurehead of Tottenham is one of the most brilliant attackers of his generation, captain and top scorer of the English selection (71), best director of the 2018 World Cup (6), the Champions League 2024 (8), the 2016 England championship (25), 2017 (29), 2021 (23) 2024 German championship (36), and European gold shoe (2024).
Silence
And yet … After his 30th anniversary in the summer of 2023, he still had not won the slightest collective title, an anomaly now corrected.
“Many people only talk about the fact that I have won no title in my career. It would be good to be able to reduce them to silence, “he slipped in early February after Bayern’s victory over Kiel (4-3).
Before the coronation, Harry Kane had played and lost six finals, two of whom with England at the Euro -F 2021 against Italy and in 2024 against Spain -, and a final with Tottenham in the Champions League -Liverpool in 2019. He also finished in the 2e Place of the England Championship with Spurs (2017).
To finally know the joy of raising a trophy after spending his career in England, he signed up in the summer of 2023 with Bayern, a mastodon of German football and which has won at least one title every year since 2012.
36 BUTS a Bundesliga
The day after his signature, on August 12, Bayern managed in extremis to qualify him for the German Super Cup in the hope of quickly breaking the fate. He plays half an hour, but Bayern is corrected by the RB Leipzig at the Allianz Arena (3-0).
His first Munich season was like his career until then. With 36 goals in the Bundesliga, it has long been on the passing times of the record of Robert Lewandowski (41), and was able to win the European gold shoe. But still no collective title, the fault of an almost perfect season of Leverkusen in the Bundesliga, while the adventure in the Champions League stopped in the semi-finals in Madrid against Real.
Recruited to replace Lewandowski, who left for FC Barcelona in July 2022, Kane presents a profile of attacker very different from that of the Polish international, participating much more in the construction of the game.
new dreams of Europe
Under contract with Bayern two more seasons, he will have the opportunity to enrich his record in the coming weeks, with the World Cup in the United States on the horizon (June 14-July 13) and the Franz-Beckenbauer Supercoupe (August 16). Then will come the new dreams of Europe in the Champions League.
In selection, German Thomas Tuchel, whom he rubbed shoulders with Bayern from the end of March 2023 to mid-May 2024, was appointed head of Three Lions And confirmed it without hesitation as captain.
In the short term, Kane’s looks inevitably focus on the 2010 World Cup in North America and in the medium term on Euro-2028 at home in England, when he almost blows his 35 candles.
