Happy 26th birthday Captain Fantastic Harry Kane

Born and raised in Walthamstow, Kane began his professional career at Tottenham Hotspur, where, after fast progression through the team’s youth academy, he was promoted to the senior team in 2009, at age 16. He did not initially feature for the side, and was loaned out several times to clubs across the English football pyramid, including Leyton Orient, Millwall, Leicester City, and Norwich City.

Kane’s involvement at Tottenham began to increase following the appointment of Mauricio Pochettino as head coach in 2014. In his first full season at the club, Kane scored 31 goals across all competitions, and finished as the league’s second highest goalscorer, winning the PFA Young Player of the Year award. After the following campaign, at age 23, Kane finished as league’s top goalscorer, and guided the club to UEFA Champions League qualification. In the 2016–17 season, Kane also completed the season as the league’s top goalscorer, and helped the club finish as the competition’s runners-up, while he won the PFA Fans’ Player of the Year award. In the 2017–18 season, Kane registered his best campaign statistically to date, with 41 goals scored in 48 games in all competitions, and in the following season, he finished as a runner-up in the UEFA Champions League.Kane holds the record for most Premier League Player of the Month awards (six; shared with Steven Gerrard and Sergio Agüero) and has been selected for the PFA Team of the Year four times. He established himself as Tottenham’s In an interview given in February 2015, Kane said that he was in a relationship with Katie Goodland, whom he has known since childhood.[199] He told Esquire magazine, “We went to school together, so she’s seen my whole career. Of course, she’s finding it a little crazy. I think she’s even been in the papers a couple of times taking the dogs out.”[158] On 1 July 2017, Kane announced his engagement to Goodland on his Twitter account,[200] and announced in June 2019 that they had married.[201]Kane and Goodland announced the birth of their first child, Ivy Jane Kane, on 8 January 2017.[202] In January 2018, Kane announced that he and Kate were expecting their second child.[203] The birth of their second daughter, Vivienne Jane Kane, was announced on 8 August 2018.[204]Kane and Goodland have two Labrador retrievers, Brady and Wilson, named after Tom Brady and Russell Wilson, quarterbacks of the NFL’s New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, respectively.[205] Kane has cited The Brady 6, a documentary about Brady, as an inspiration for his development.[206] In 2019 Kane expressed an interest in becoming a kicker in the NFL “in 10 to 12 years.”[207]Kane abstains from alcohol during the football season, and starting from 2017, he hired a full-time chef to optimise his nutrition.[208] He plays golf in his free time.[158]Kane was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to football.[20

Published by John Gachugu Mathenge

John Gachugu AKA Johnny is a journalist by profession and he loves watching football during his free time. He is currently 21 years of age and currently pursuing a Diploma Course in Broadcast Journalism in Kenya Institute of Mass Communication. John is a big fan of Manchester United and likes players like Paul Pogba, Marcus Rashford, David De Gea and Luke Shaw. He is also a big fan of Barcelona and loves watching players like Lionel Messi, Antoine Griezmann and Luis Suarez. On Saturday and Sunday, John likes EPL, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, UEFA Champions League, Europa League and he is a big fan of France AKA Africane Unione, Les Blues. John likes playing football video games like FIFA and Dream League soccer when he gets bored.

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