Harry Kane wants to change his history – Sportellate

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And the transition to Bayern is clearly evidence of his intentions.

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The first videos of his arrival at the training center in Munich show sincerity Harry Kane it gives us something new layers his personality. His face is excited and curious, open to big changes in life, like a boy’s first day of high school. He shows more embarrassment than usual when talking to new team members, has to say hello to new fans, and starts racing with brand new teammates. There is no denying that his enthusiasm for a new adventure in another country and in one of the most important teams in the world is evident. Just as there is no denying the status with which he arrived at Bayern Munich: the status of a champion, designed to replace Lewandowski.

What has always distinguished Kane from a communicative point of view is sincerity, so much so that he is considered unique among football players, it is most often interesting to flaunt their lives as privileged people in the era of social networks. The pictures or videos that the England captain radiates are the story of a good boy who loves simple things. Photos of his workouts and family life are interspersed with contours that someone will define. “boomers”. He is the exact opposite of his English counterparts such as Grealish, Foden or Walker, who are much less restrained in expressing themselves on social networks. But you can’t think that there is any kind of end, that Harry really is like that. He also shows it on the pitch, always very polite and focused.

Even when he celebrates goals, which happens to him on average every 69 minutes, his style is very simple. He kisses his wedding ring, jumps up, and then mimics an almost tennis kick, alternately looking at the audience and at his comrades. Nothing special, just him and his dedication on the field, which made him one of the strongest strikers on the planet, despite the fact that the palm trees in the off-season are more deserted than the beaches.

“I want to win trophies, I want to win the Premier League, I want to win the Champions League, I want to win the FA Cup. If I don’t get it in the next three matches it will be a disappointment.” Harry said in an interview with Thierry Henry in 2017. Kane gave himself more time than those three years to do so at Tottenham, tying himself inextricably to the club’s history in a positive way, but also fully accepting the underdog label. Tottenham have not won a trophy since 2008, and together with Kane, they dreamed of breaking that curse.

but failed to do so despite having a close-knit group capable of even reaching the Champions League final.

However, as expectations grew, the path of the club went in the opposite direction of that of its leader. Spurs plunged into their historical controversy: many good parcels with important managers like Mourinho and Conte, but disappointing performances that combined the lack of affection of the players on the field and the inattention of successive managers. As a result, in four years, Tottenham went from a Champions League player to a player who no longer participates in any European competition.

Instead, Kane stood out as one of the most accomplished strikers in the world, retiring the title of best striker. “A Couple of Seasons of Wonders”: became the top scorer in Tottenham history with 280 goals and the second top scorer in Premier League history with 213 goals.with Alan Shearer’s record at one point appearing to be the only thing keeping Kane on British soil.

Beyond goals, however, there is a tangible evolution in his game: Kane can score goals in any way he can and has developed a vision for the game that allows him to exalt his teammates, as evidenced by his symbiotic relationship with Son Heung-min. . His dribbling technique, decision-making clarity, his play outside the box and his tactical intelligence have all improved. Last season he scored 30 goals. but the collapse of Tottenham, the arrival of Haaland and a missed penalty in the quarter-finals of the World Cup against France eclipsed him in discussions among the best strikers of the season.

So, it’s time for a radical change. To become a champion de facto, and not just in spirit, Kane made a strong choice, but within a month he had acquired the outlines of an ideal both for him and for his former club. Since 2021, she has already been instilled in fans Spurs the thought that Kane was about to say hello. After the last league game against Leicester, the striker thanked the fans in tears, foreshadowing his farewell to the club. However, this was not the only signal: there were allegations of disappointment over the course of the season, the unwillingness of teammates to row in the same direction and dissatisfaction with the sacking of José Mourinho just a week before the League Cup final against Manchester City, Kane’s penultimate chance to get rid of the best player title serial loser.

However, Tottenham did not sell him then, causing resentment and reluctantly keeping him. Kane, as an exemplary professional, adapted by choosing to stay at home and finding the vitality in ambition. Spurs when Antonio Conte was hired. His scoring returns to growth, but, as a counterbalance, the team’s scoring was inversely proportional to his scoring before his collapse last spring: eighth place and the return of expression “Team Harry Kane” minted by Guardiola. And so we have come to the end of a marriage, a relationship based not on affection but on the future prospects of both parties. Spurs and Kane as Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver.

Kane’s farewell to Tottenham was painful and exhausting, as Kane could have stayed and played in England to at least break Shearer’s record, but in a different shirt. In that sense, Bayern, for whom Kane has been a top target in the transfer market since last January, was the perfect fit for everyone. Daniel Levy, who was identified by Florentino Perez a few years ago “Worst person to sit down and make a deal with”

, managed to achieve everything possible: he sold a player at the age of 30 with an expiring contract for 100 million euros and did it to a foreign team, also avoiding the strengthening of a direct rival. He ended an era that did not end on its own, regretting what should have been and could have been done.

Kane, in turn, escaped the displeasure of the fans, at least for a while, and moved to a club where his thirst for victory and the discipline needed to achieve it can be satisfied. He went to fill the gap in the form of Robert Lewandowski left in Bayern and the Bundesliga., perhaps once again making it clear that Monaco does not even want to think about the possibility of losing the championship. The Bavarians saw Kane as the perfect form to return to Bundesliga dominance without any problems and fill the gap with Manchester City and Real Madrid in the Champions League.

The respect for Kane as an athlete was evident even before he even took the field, given the dressing room reception with clear dynamics and bulky senators like Thomas Müller and Manuel Neuer capable of reaping outstanding sacrifices like Sadio Mane and Lewandowski himself all over Munich met without much love.

The fact that his arrival is treated with a very high degree of respect, Tuchel himself made clear after the defeat in the German Super Cup from RB Leipzig: he bitterly joked about the state of the team: “Sorry about Harry Kane, he just arrived and must have thought we haven’t trained in weeks”. And two games in the starting lineup in the championship was enough to show what Kane brought to the Bavarians.

Kane’s vision fits very well with the pace of the game and the quality of his new teammates; So much so that on his debut at Bremen’s bustling stadium, it took him two minutes to find his first assist, offering one of his surgical deep-attack passing balls to Leroy Sane just as he had offered them to Son months earlier.

The calmness that Kane brings to the opening games and goals (he has already scored three goals in the first two Bundesliga games) has already calmed the waters at Bayern, and also suggests that perhaps his arrival will benefit his teammates as well. On the other hand, he has already shown that he is able to put other players in front of the goal with extraordinary ease. In addition, the ability to fine-tune the combinations that Davis, Goretzka and Coman are able to create already seems like a prelude to how Bayern can become dangerous, especially after the harmony between him and his teammates improves: both will accelerate offensive maneuvers. in the transition period than in the possession phase, using half spaces.

Tactical development will require more time and stronger opponents than Werder Bremen and Augsburg, who already seem to be doomed to an uphill battle to stay out of relegation. But Kane is already making a huge impact on a team that needed not only goals last season, but also inspiration and leadership. “The way he trains, the way he goes out on the pitch…he is so humble, exudes joy in training and can add so many qualities.”Tuchel said. “It’s so impressive. He will make all the players around him better by attracting so much attention to himself. It was a great debut.”

Kane is not a “champion”. I’m using quotation marks because the expression is now so nuanced and can be turned upside down, given the inextricable link between champions and trophies. On the pitch, however, the English No. 9 radiates the attitude, sociability and talent of a champion of his generation. He has a unique talent in modern football, but he has never managed to win despite a career that has already made him an icon of the Premier League at the age of 29.. However, this summer, despite the imminent birth of another child, he decided to completely break away from his iconography and rebuild himself.

He wants to win something in order to shake off the label of a perpetual underdog, and went to the club determined to win everything that can be won; at the same time, however, he wants to change his narrative, remaining himself: a real person with a solid and respected status, who patiently and worked to reach a certain level, leaving his club in a friendly and calm atmosphere. right time.

Kane’s image on social media is just that: new team, new personal technical sponsor, new son, new life, but the same desire to improve on the pitch, enjoying the simple things he appreciates, which perhaps makes him less intriguing than his peers. . Now is the time to dominate the Bundesliga, playing in the Champions League is no longer what outsider and stop mocking him as a “beautiful loser”. And who knows when he succeeds, we will finally see him less sober than he has always been until now. The season has just begun, but the prerequisites for Kane to give a decisive turn to his story are already there.

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