Will arriveeven if the second part of his career has already begun for Harry Kane. That title will come so it will have been worth the wait, that trophy that as soon as the Englishman approaches, runs away as if they were two bodies with the same electric charge. Harry Kane31 years old on July 28th, over 600 appearances and more than 400 goals at the highest levels, he has never won a trophy yet.
The decision to join the company for a decade had an impact on his career Tottenham, power from the Premier League incapable of truly fighting for the title. However, bad luck seems to have traveled with Harry Kane, stuck in a bag packed for a couple of summers, and she seems to have followed him to Munich.
There 9 of Bayern and 44 goals in 44 games between Bundesliga and Champions League. Networks that photograph a spectacular season on an individual level; goals which, however, were not enough to give him the first collective joy of his career. In Germany the Bavarians surrendered first in the Super Cup to Leipzig and then to the excessive power of Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen (also exiting prematurely in the DFB Pokal); in Europe, however, they strongly relished the idea of an all-German Final with Borussia Dortmund, before being swept away by injury time against a never-yielding Real Madrid.
The following day there was talk of individual errors (Neuer’s gross one), after it was his coach Thomas Tuchel who had provoked discussion of Kim’s in the first leg of the semi-final. Harry Kane didn’t have his best performance of the season yesterday, but only if we consider that he himself set very high standards. He tried with a couple of very dangerous shots and lit up with the visionary throw for Alphonso Davies’ opener. Playing a Champions League semi-final in a Santiago Bernabeu hot and come out with a half assist and a couple of great occasions is not a luxury that everyone has anyway.
And the paradox is that, even wearing the shirt of one of the greatest European powers, current and historical, was not enough for the English champion. Bayern became Bundesliga champions for 11 consecutive years, not to mention the numerous DFB Pokal and German Super Cups celebrated and the two successes in Europe’s top competition. More than a fantastic decade for any red and white fan, before an entire season without titles that Bavaria hadn’t experienced since 2011-12the one that ended with the bitter Champions League final lost against Chelsea right atAllianz.
There are now a handful of games left in all the major leagues in Europe and it’s practically official. There hasn’t been a stronger striker than Harry Kane this season. The Englishman leads Mbappé by 10 goals counting only those in the Bundesliga, Haaland by 11, Lautaro Martinez by 13. He also leads those who compete in championships minors which have a difficulty coefficient of 1.5 in the ranking of Golden Shoe; these are the various Pavlidis (28 in the Eredivisie), Gyokeres and Luuk de Jong (27 respectively in Liga Portugal and again Eredivisie).
He put himself at an abysmal distance with his colleagues in the department in a year which, in addition to the Golden Shoe, would have placed him, in the event of victory in the Champions League, as an ideal candidate also for the Golden Ball. Instead came yet another disappointment in his career, yet another mocking smile from the God of footballwhich in the final minutes of the Santiago Bernabeu took on the appearance of Joselu to punish him immediately after his substitution. Forced on the bench, powerless to watch the capitulation of his Bayern, to swallow the now usual bitter taste that he will, hopefully, have learned to live with.
His best season in terms of scoring coincides with Bayern’s worst for 12 years now. In the background, there remains a European championship to be played in Germany as captain of one of the favorite national teams and a trophy nightmare that doesn’t seem to want to abandon him. In a hypothetical ranking of the most unfortunate of contemporary times, Harry Kane would certainly occupy one of the top places.
