A Harry Kane (London, 1993) it seems that a witch cursed him at birth. The forward, despite being one of the most lethal scorers of the last decade, on his way to reaching 400, has not won a single professional trophy in his long career. In fact, the only medal he has won was the Under 17 Tournament in Algarve, Portugal, with the British team.
Cold data for a player who, after a decade in his beloved Tottenham, decided to enroll last summer in one of the most successful projects in the history of football, the fearsome Bayern Munich. In his first months with the Germans he has continued to shatter all kinds of records, but he has already said goodbye to two trophies in just 15 games played. The Bavarians lost the Super Cup against Leipzig (0-3) and are already eliminated from the Cup after losing against Saarbrucken (2-1) third division.
You can’t say that Kane isn’t trying in Germany. Last Saturday he scored a hat trick against Borussia Dortmundhis second in a row after scoring three against the Darmstadtrecords that not even Robert Lewandowski and Gerd ‘Torpedo’ Muller, the two top scorers in the history of the Bundesliga and Bayern, had achieved.
But what’s more, Kane is the only footballer in German history to have scored 15 points in the first 10 league games. The Londoner surpassed Klaus Matischakwhich added 13 for the Schalke 04 in their first 10 games of the 1963-64 championship. However, the 85-year-old former player finished the season with 19 goals.
Kane shines with his own light, but the team he scores for does not do so much, something that Bayern has lost since the dismissal of Julian Nagelsmann last March, when the coach lost control of the locker room (he was obsessed with finding a mole and even Mané and Sané came to blows in training). Now with Thomas Tuchel When in command, the unit drives straight but without being the usual steamroller. They are second in the Bundesliga with 26 points, just two behind the surprising Bayer Leverkusen of Xabi Alonso.
It is not the first time that a rival forces Bayern to work harder than necessary, such as Borussia or Leipzig, but when the fog of war clears, those from southern Germany always emerge champions. Not in vain have they won every league since 2012. But of course, this season they have Kane.
“I want to play in the Champions League and fight for all the titles,” Kane said in his presentation after Bayern paid 95 million for him. Bold phrase taking into account his history with Tottenham, which has not won anything since 2008 despite the exhibitions of the striker, three times the Premier’s top scorer (2015-16, 2016-17 and 2020-21).
The closest he came to ending his curse was in 2019 when he reached the Champions League final but Tottenham gave up against him. Liverpool. To make matters worse, his former team is second in the Premier this season, just one point behind Manchester City. This is the story of Harry Kane, a striker like no other with a jinx like no other.
2023-11-05 18:55:20
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