Bundesliga champ Kane: What will they say now?

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May 12, 2025, 07:31 PM ET

Harry Kane has brushed disconnected the disapproval helium has received from rival fans during his agelong hold for the archetypal trophy of his career, saying "we'll spot what radical speech astir now."

Kane, 32, won the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich connected May 4 and lifted the Meisterschale on Saturday astatine the Allianz Arena pursuing his team's triumph implicit Borussia Monchengladbach.

The England captain's interminable hold for the archetypal winner's medal of his illustrious vocation was mocked by rival fans and led to him leaving boyhood nine Tottenham Hotspur to articulation the Bundesliga giants successful 2023.

"It is simply a value connected the shoulders," Kane told The Times. "I'm precise alert of the information that I hadn't won it. I enactment myself nether much unit than anyone else. As the years spell by you commencement to think: 'Is it going to happen?' You support going, you support pushing yourself and bully things travel and this is decidedly 1 of those. And we'll spot what radical speech astir now. I'm definite they'll find thing and I'll instrumentality it successful my stride."

Despite collecting a big of idiosyncratic accolades, Kane's nonaccomplishment to triumph a trophy during his storied vocation had fostered speech of a trophy "curse."

"I'm not antithetic to what I was earlier I won," Kane said. "It was thing that was missing from my resumé. I'd achieved a batch of large things successful my vocation from an idiosyncratic constituent of presumption and this is 1 of those things I evidently wanted to achieve, a squad title, a league title. And there's inactive squad trophies I privation to execute truthful it doesn't halt now, it ain't like: 'This is the extremity and I bent my boots up happy.'

"This is conscionable the opening of hopefully much to come."

Kane's Bundesliga occurrence comes aft losing a Champions League last and 2 Carabao Cup finals with Spurs, 2 European Championship finals with England and a German Super Cup last connected his Bayern debut past season.

"It's bully to beryllium connected the different broadside to beryllium honest, to person that solemnisation I've not had before," helium said. "I've seen my just stock of different teams lifting trophies."

Bayern's seizure of their 33rd Bundesliga rubric was confirmed erstwhile second-placed Bayer Leverkusen drew 2-2 with Freiburg. Kane and respective of his Bayern teammates gathered unneurotic to ticker the lucifer and Kane posted videos of their celebrations of his societal media accounts.

"Once it was official, a power conscionable went disconnected and maine and Eric [Dier] particularly started getting the champagne going, the songs going and everyone other conscionable turned up," Kane said. "That was a peculiar nighttime erstwhile everyone wholly fto free."

Kane, who is connected way to go the archetypal subordinate to extremity his archetypal 2 Bundesliga seasons arsenic the competition's apical scorer, reflected connected the prime helium made to permission northbound London and determination to Bavaria.

"It was a large decision," Kane said. "I could person easy stayed astatine Spurs, played successful the Premier League and carried connected scoring goals, but I wanted to propulsion myself. I wanted to spot however bully I could beryllium and play successful the biggest games, the biggest rubric run-ins and Champions League games. I've done that.

"Though we've not been palmy successful the different competitions we've played successful large games and large nights. And I deliberation that contiguous is conscionable the commencement of thing special."

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