In what may be its worst season in a decade, with the possibility of going blank having already lost the Bundesliga, the German Cup and the Super Cup, without a coach for the next campaign as it is known that Thomas Tuchel is not continuing, Bayern It remains above all to entrust ourselves to Harry Kane to hope to eliminate Real Madrid tomorrow at the Bernabéu and maintain the hope of turning the season around. He would only achieve it by winning the Champions League at Wembley on June 1.
And the numbers of the English forward, signed this summer to Tottenham for 95 million euros, scare anyone. Bayern’s number 9 scored this weekend from a penalty in the Bavarians’ defeat against Stuttgart (3-1) and with his goal he became the player who has scored the most goals in all competitions this season in the major European leagues. , 44. Of them, 38 in the Bundesliga and six in the Champions League, where he already scored one against Madrid last Tuesday in the first leg of the semifinals at the Allianz Arena (2-2), also from a penalty.
In this classification, second is Kylian Mbappé, with 43 goals, and already well behind is Manchester City’s Norwegian Erling Håland, with 36 goals.
Madrid is right to fear Kane. Not in vain, the only player that Carlo Ancelotti asked Florentino Pérez this summer when he learned that Karim Benzema did not renew and was leaving for the Arabian League. Madrid considered signing the Englishman, but finally rejected it due to his high price and the player’s age, 30 years old. The excuse given to Ancelotti was that they were going all out with Kylian Mbappé, considered a signing for the future and therefore more strategic. Instead, Madrid got Espanyol to loan Joselu to them for 1.5 million, plus a purchase option to be executed this summer of 2024.
Harry Kane at Bayern has not disappointed. In a team that this season has been very irregular and where almost nothing has worked as it should, the Englishman has been a perfectly oiled goal-scoring machine.
After all, it is what the English striker has done all his life. In the twelve seasons he was at Tottenham (except for the first three in which he was very young and played very little), he did not drop below 17 goals and in two of them he reached 30. And Tottenham was not a team with aspirations of winning the Premier.
However, Kane, whose record remains at zero, already knows what it means to beat Madrid and play in a Champions League final. In the 2017-18 season, the then Tottenham team led by Mauricio Pochettino was paired in the group stage with Zidane’s Madrid. In London the English team won (3-1), and at the Bernabéu the result was a draw (1-1). Kane did not score in those two games. The following season, Tottenham played in the Champions League final at the Metropolitano against Liverpool, who won 2-0.
Of Irish descent and born in Walthamstow (London), Kane has surprising anecdotes for an elite forward, very tall at 1.88 meters. He entered the Arsenal Academy (Tottenham’s great north London rival) at the age of eight and after two seasons he was not offered to continue because he was a chubby child and did not have many aptitudes for football.
At the age of eleven, Kane joined Tottenham, where he made his professional debut in 2011 and became a starter in 2014. Married to his childhood sweetheart, Katie Goodland, he has three children. In 2019 he founded the Harry Kane Foundation to help children with physical and learning difficulties. He is the captain of the English team. And today, he is Real Madrid’s biggest threat on its way to the 15th European Cup.