England national team captain, Hurricane Harry Kane was on fire at the start of this year's World Cup, scoring five goals in just two matches, and even scoring a hat-trick of three goals against Panama in the second match of the group stage. Leading England out of the last World Cup where they could not win a single match and advancing to the round of 16 has also made the player, who is a member of the
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League One Tottenham
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The superstar striker is highly regarded.
Despite his accomplishments, Kane didn't have a great start to his childhood soccer career, and because of that, he has a stronger drive to grow and thrive, and even more so in the
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It took the league just 141 games to blast in 100 goals, making it the second fastest ever, so let's take a look at this 0 to 100 struggle through Kane's eyes.
Failure isn't a big deal for kids, and sometimes it's even kind of funny, but the day it happened still sticks with me.
When I was a kid living in Chingford I used to play soccer with my brother and father in the park at the back of the house, there were no goals, no tactics, just a bit of grass, a few trees and a soccer ball was enough for us to play pass and catch and have fun. At the time, I was also working on
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Playing for the youth team, I really felt I had a good chance.
One day, when I was eight years old, I went with my father to the park where we used to play soccer, and my father said to me seriously, "There's something I have to tell you.
What is it? I was a little nervous about what my father was going to tell me.
The next thing I remember is my father putting his hand on my shoulder and slowly saying to me, "Well . . Harry.
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Decided to release you.
In fact, I kind of forget now how I first felt at that moment, and to be honest, I didn't even know what such a fact meant to me, after all, I was still a young child. But I was impressed by my father's reaction and the way he made me feel, he neither blamed me nor criticized me.
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, he didn't even feel troubled by it, he just said softly: don't worry Harry, we'll keep trying again and we'll find another team, okay?
Looking back now, you might be tempted to say that I might have been more frustrated, but at the time there really wasn't much of that because my father was very different. A lot of fathers in the UK want their sons to be professional footballers, and then their reaction to this would be very different, but my father always had a positive attitude to everything, he didn't put any extra pressure on me, he would just tap you on the shoulder and say, OK, let's get on with it then!
That's the attitude I've always had, to go forward.
take off
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After that, I went back to play for my local team, Ridgeway Rovers, and then moved to Watford's youth team. After that I played for Watford at Tottenham.
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After the youth team game, I was surprised to get to join the
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youth team opportunities, which were all unexpected developments for me at a time when I was very much into the
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The white color scheme of the jersey, I think this color scheme suits me better (laughs).
I remember representing
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Youth team in action
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I didn't have too much of a buoyant emotional reaction to my first game with the youth team, even though they gave up on me when I was only eight years old, but I just kept thinking: okay, now let's see who's right and who's wrong!
Thinking about it now, being released at the time was probably a good thing for me because the incident gave me the motivation to grow up fast like never before.
I scored 100 goals this February, and of course I was very happy about that. But actually at the beginning
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The two or three years that I was loaned out to other teams, there were many times when I wondered if I had what it took to make it in the
England Premier Soccer League
Scoring any goal in the league, really, even one is difficult for me, but I really learned a lot during those years and there are a lot of things that have stuck with me. For example, when I was at Millwall in the Championship in 2012, I saw the referee make a mistake and the fans started throwing things they couldn't use or were too heavy into the pitch, so the game had to be stopped, which was a real eye-opener for me, it was really crazy.
Milwaukee at the time was constantly working for
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Fighting, but the team's form is still nowhere to be seen, and someone in the locker room will start to say: at this rate, you might be docked half your salary! Or the possibility of early termination of the contract. Rumors like this were making people nervous.
All of these players had families, they all had some financial pressure, and this situation was quite painful for them, and that was when I really saw the other side of the professional game, that some people don't play just for the sport, but more for their livelihood, but most realistically, on the soccer field, a lot of opportunities are fleeting. My experience at Milwaukee taught me a lot and made me realize that I was no longer a kid and had to work hard to change and grow up to be the best player at Milwaukee. I still have a good connection with the Milwaukee fans and I like them quite a bit, even though they can be really crazy at times.
