After the semi-final at the 2018 World Cup and the second place at the 2021 European Championships, the striker wants to stop “hitting the beam” and be champion
star of England, striker Harry Kane is part of a list of great athletes who have not won any titles, for club or country. therefore, the world Cup this year has everything to be the “tournament of life” for the player.
At 29, Kane is perhaps reaching his technical peak in this World Cup. Although in the last edition, in 2018, he played in spectacular conditions, also resulting in the tournament’s top scorer, today the athlete is more mature and at a level that has remained high for at least eight seasons.
And it is with the English national team that Harry Kane has felt the taste of being a champion very close in recent years. Despite having finished second in the Champions League with Tottenham, in the 2018/19 season, with the English team, the forward reached the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup, in Russia, and finished second in the European Championship, played for the last year, losing on penalties against Italy.
And it’s so much that this year Harry Kane will be able to fulfill his dream of shouting “he’s the champion” for the first time in his career. Tottenham, where the striker works, are fourth in the Premier League, eight points behind leaders Arsenal, and, despite not even halfway through the competition, Spurs will find it very difficult to catch up with their London rivals. In the Champions League, Kane’s team is in the round of 16, having topped their group in the group stage, but they are far from being considered favorites to win.
All of this makes the World Cup a great chance for Harry to put the ‘icing on the cake’ in his career as he stars in a qualified team, who have made recent decisions and in a tournament that is a short shot.
Add to this the fact that this year’s season is one of the last in which the striker competes at such a high level. Since bursting into football in the 2014/15 season, the player has never had an average attendance below 0.60 – which is at least one direct attendance every two games. There have been years where the athlete has exceeded the goal participation mark with one per game, either by scoring or assisting – cases of 2016/17 and 2020/21.
With a career on the rise for so long, the trend is for Harry Kane to enter a downward trend after the World Cup when he hits his 30s.
For everything he represents in English football and for his regularity, the striker will most likely be at the next World Cup, which will take place in 2026, between Canada, the United States and Mexico, but certainly far from his best condition, as he will be this year.
THE BEST IN THE WORLD
England captain Harry Kane will lift the trophy if the Three Lions win the World Cup. And this would naturally push the attacker towards another goal, this individual one: the Ballon d’Or.
Kane comes into the World Cup with 13 goals scored and three assists in 22 games this season so far. An average attendance of almost one goal per game (0.72). Twelve of those goals scored have been in the Premier League, which puts him second in the league, behind only Manchester City’s Erling Haaland with 18 goals.
And it is precisely the Dane, from the Citzens, who is Kane’s main competitor for the Golden Boot, an award given to the cup’s top scorer, and which the English striker received four years ago, in Russia. However, the trend is that Denmark won’t go all the way to England in the World Cup, giving Harry more chances to score.
To be top scorer again at the World Cup, but this time adding individual achievement to the collective title, would put Harry Kane on a high shelf to be awarded the best player in the world at the end of the 2022/23 season. Especially since the tournament between the selections has a great weight in the award decision.
The debut of the England team in the World Cup takes place this Monday (21st), at 10 (Brasilia time), against Iran. Kane will start a new journey towards his first career title. As well as personal branding, one possible result would be England’s first in football since 1966, when the England team won the World Cup for the only time.
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
