One of the Best Young Strikers in the World: Tottenham’s Very Own, Harry Kane
Close to Reaching His Potential with Spurs’ Under-21 team:
Les Ferdinand, the former Under-21 coach at Tottenham, now at Queen’s Park Rangers:
“For me, the quality that made him stand out as a youngster was this incredible self-belief,” says Ferdinand. “What he was, he was very single minded. He always knew precisely where he wanted to go.”
When it came to choosing a place that Harry Kane wanted to go to, it was always going to be with Tottenham. How could he not, as a lifelong Spurs supporter? But it did take a while for Kane to get the opportunity to sign with Tottenham and plenty of work to stick around as a youth player. There were plenty of practice sessions involved. Here’s Les Ferdinand continuing on:
"“We worked a lot on his shooting,” says Ferdinand, who conducted endless individual sessions at the young player’s request. “I always said to Tim [Sherwood, then Ferdinand’s colleague working with the Tottenham U-21s], his movement reminds me of [Teddy] Sheringham, in that he drops into holes and automatically takes up clever positions.” “But he strikes the ball like Alan Shearer. Look at Alan’s goals, a lot of them are hit with pure venom. He very rarely tapped in. Harry’s like that. When he hits them, they’re going in.”"
All of Harry Kane’s shots are hit with power but also with good accuracy. In fact, his shots are rarely off target, they’re always on goal. It takes a great save to stop Kane’s shots from going in. Even on the near misses, they’re just that, near misses that had it been hit in a slightly different angle it would have gone in for a goal.
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