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1. 0:00By being with with me I think I I can
2. 0:03help you too but is not enough
3. 0:07yes [music]
4. 0:08but
5. 0:10winner is Harry Kane
6. 0:16>> before the Bondor and all the goals.
7. 0:19Before anyone called Harry Kane a one
8. 0:21season wonder they called him something
9. 0:23worse. Arsenal let him go when he was
10. 0:26eight years old. too chubby, the story
11. 0:29goes, and not athletic enough. Watford
12. 0:32took a look and passed two. Tottenham
13. 0:34signed him at 11, mostly because nobody
14. 0:37else was queuing. Even inside Spurs, he
15. 0:40was never the chosen one. The academy
16. 0:42had faster kids, stronger kids, kids who
17. 0:45looked like footballers. Kane looked
18. 0:48like the lad who organizes the Fiverr
19. 0:49side and then gets picked last for it.
20. 0:52So Tottenham did what clubs do with
21. 0:54players they are not sure about. They
22. 0:56lent him out. Leighton Orient in 2011.
23. 1:00Milwall in 2012. Norwich where he broke
24. 1:03a bone in his foot and barely played.
25. 1:05Leicester [music] in 2013 where he
26. 1:08scored twice in the championship. Four
27. 1:10loans, four dressing rooms. Four sets of
28. 1:13fans who had no idea who he was [music]
29. 1:16and no real reason to care. He would
30. 1:18remember every one of those managers. 15
31. 1:21years later, he would read their names
32. 1:23out loud on the biggest stage in
33. 1:25football. Keep that in mind. By the
34. 1:28summer of 2014, Harry Kane was 21, a
35. 1:32backup striker at a club that had just
36. 1:34sacked its manager, and very close to
37. 1:36being the answer to a pub quiz question.
38. 1:39Then, a new coach arrived from [music]
39. 1:41Southampton, and everything moved very
40. 1:43fast. Some players earn a nickname. Kane
41. 1:47was handed one and it [music] was meant
42. 1:49as an insult. Maritzio Pochettino gave
43. 1:53him a chance in 2014. Kane took it like
44. 1:56he was afraid someone would take it
45. 1:58back. 31 goals in all competitions in
46. 2:01the 2014 to5 season. 21 of them in the
47. 2:05Premier League. Two against Arsenal at
48. 2:07White Hart Lane, the club that had let
49. 2:09him go as an 8-year-old. You do not need
50. 2:12to be a psychologist to understand why
51. 2:14that one felt good. The reaction from
52. 2:17the rest of the country was immediate
53. 2:18and unanimous. Fluke, purple patch, a
54. 2:22one season wonder. Wait until defenders
55. 2:25figure him out. Defenders did not figure
56. 2:28him out. 25 Premier League goals in the
57. 2:312015 to6 season. The golden boot 29 in
58. 2:35the 2016 to7 season. The golden boot
59. 2:39again. In the calendar year 2017, he
60. 2:42scored 56 goals for club and country.
61. 2:45two more than Lionel Messi. It was the
62. 2:48first time in nine years that neither
63. 2:50Messi nor Ronaldo finished the year as
64. 2:52Europe's top scorer. Then came the 2018
65. 2:56World Cup. Six goals, the golden boot.
66. 2:59England in a semi-final for the first
67. 3:01time in 28 years. In June 2017, Kane
68. 3:06said out loud that he wanted to
69. 3:08challenge Ronaldo and Messi for the
70. 3:09balon door. The reaction ranged from
71. 3:12polite smiles to open laughter. David
72. 3:15Gianola, a Tottenham legend, later said
73. 3:18Kane simply was not capable of doing
74. 3:20what those two did with a football. Not
75. 3:22quick enough, not enough tricks, a
76. 3:24goalcorer, nothing more. The one season
77. 3:27wonder had now strung together four
78. 3:29elite seasons in a row. The critics,
79. 3:32displaying a level of flexibility you
80. 3:34rarely see outside gymnastics, simply
81. 3:37moved the goalposts. Fine, he scores,
82. 3:39but he has won nothing [music] and he
83. 3:42never will at Tottenham. They had a
84. 3:44point and on one hot night in Madrid,
85. 3:46they were about to be proven right in
86. 3:48the [music] most painful way possible.
87. 3:51June 1st, 2019, the Champions League
88. 3:54final, the biggest night in Tottenham's
89. 3:57history. It lasted about 2 minutes
90. 4:00before it started going wrong. Kane had
91. 4:03torn ankle ligaments in April. He had
92. 4:05not played a competitive match in 53
93. 4:07days. Pochettino started him anyway.
94. 4:11When your best player tells you he is
95. 4:12ready for a Champions League final, you
96. 4:14do not ask for a second opinion.
97. 4:17Liverpool got a penalty in the second
98. 4:19minute. Muhammad Salah scored it. Kane
99. 4:22spent the next 90 minutes chasing a game
100. 4:24that never came to him. Dvokeri added a
101. 4:27second in the 87th minute. Liverpool won
102. 4:30two to zero. Kane walked up to collect a
103. 4:33losers medal with the face of a man
104. 4:35reading his own credit card statement.
105. 4:38That was the high point. Tottenham never
106. 4:41recovered from Madrid. The squad had
107. 4:43been built for one final push and the
108. 4:45push had ended in a Spanish stadium with
109. 4:48confetti in the wrong colors. By
110. 4:50November, Spurs were 14th in [music] the
111. 4:52Premier League. Pochettino, the man who
112. 4:55had made Kane, was sacked on November
113. 4:5719th, 2019.
114. 5:00For the first time in his career, Kane
115. 5:02had lost the manager who believed in him
116. 5:04most. Within 24 hours, Tottenham had
117. 5:07replaced him. And the man they chose was
118. 5:10about to walk Kane into a room and say
119. 5:12something no coach had ever said to him
120. 5:14before. Jose Mourinho does not do small
121. 5:18first impressions. He arrived at
122. 5:20Tottenham with three Premier League
123. 5:22titles, two Champions Leagues, and a
124. 5:24[music] camera crew already in the
125. 5:25building. He was also at that moment a
126. 5:28[music] man with something to prove.
127. 5:30Manchester United had sacked him in
128. 5:32December 2018. He had spent 11 months
129. 5:35out of work doing television punditry,
130. 5:37[music] which for Jose Mourinho is
131. 5:40roughly the equivalent of a lion being
132. 5:42asked to work in [music] a petting zoo.
133. 5:44The word around English football was
134. 5:45that the game had moved on, that his
135. 5:48best days were behind him. Sound
136. 5:50familiar? Amazon [music] was filming a
137. 5:52seasonlong documentary called All or
138. 5:54Nothing. They had signed up to film
139. 5:56Pochettino. Instead, they got Mourinho.
140. 6:00For a documentary crew, that is like
141. 6:02ordering a sandwich and being handed a
142. 6:04lobster. Within days of his appointment,
143. 6:07Mourinho called Kane into his office.
144. 6:09The cameras were rolling. He started
145. 6:11with Pochettino. He knew Kane loved the
146. 6:14man. He said he respected that. Then he
147. 6:17asked the obvious question. Good
148. 6:19relationship with the previous manager.
149. 6:21Why not me? Then he got to the point. He
150. 6:24had watched Kane train. He had no doubts
151. 6:27that Kane [music] was a leader. And then
152. 6:29the line that ended up defining both
153. 6:31their careers. The world looks to
154. 6:33English football with an incredible
155. 6:35respect, but they still think the movie
156. 6:38stars of football belong to other
157. 6:39places. Let that sink in for a second.
158. 6:43Everyone already told [music] Kane he
159. 6:44was good. Mourinho told him something
160. 6:47else. He told Kane that being the best
161. 6:50striker in England was a ceiling and
162. 6:52that the world had quietly decided an
163. 6:54Englishman could never be anything more.
164. 6:57Then he told Kane they were going to
165. 6:59break it. He said they had to build
166. 7:01[music] Kane's status in that direction.
167. 7:04He said his own dimension as a coach was
168. 7:06universal. And then by being with him,
169. 7:09Kane could and Mourinho finished the
170. 7:12sentence with his hands. An explosion.
171. 7:15Kane did not hesitate. That's my aim, he
172. 7:18said. He admitted Tottenham had done
173. 7:20well. He had done well, but he wanted to
174. 7:23be Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
175. 7:26Mourinho did not laugh. He told Kane
176. 7:29that he did not accept being somewhere
177. 7:31and winning nothing, that he believed
178. 7:33they could win because of Kane, that
179. 7:36Kane had better players around him than
180. 7:38Mourinho had had at Manchester United.
181. 7:41Two men in a room, one with nothing left
182. 7:44to prove, one with everything left to
183. 7:47prove, both convinced the rest of the
184. 7:49world had underestimated them. It was a
185. 7:52beautiful speech, the kind managers give
186. 7:54on day one before reality has a chance
187. 7:57to answer back. And reality, it turns
188. 7:59out, answered back about 6 weeks later.
189. 8:03On New Year's Day, January 1st, 2020,
190. 8:07Southampton away, Kane chases a ball he
191. 8:10was never going to reach, pulls up, and
192. 8:13grabs the back of his left leg. Ruptured
193. 8:15hamstring tendon. Surgery months out.
194. 8:18The explosion Mourinho had promised had
195. 8:21arrived, just not the kind anyone was
196. 8:23hoping for. And then the universe
197. 8:26produced one of its darker jokes. In
198. 8:28March, the world shut down. Co stopped
199. 8:31football for three months. Kane, who
200. 8:34should have missed most of the season,
201. 8:36ended up missing far fewer matches than
202. 8:38anyone expected because there were no
203. 8:40matches to miss. It is the only known
204. 8:42case of a global pandemic doing a
205. 8:44footballer's physio a favor. Spurs
206. 8:47finished sixth. Kane scored 24 goals in
207. 8:50all competitions, 18 in the league.
208. 8:53Respectable, not explosive. Then came
209. 8:56the 2020 to 2021 season and Mourinho
210. 9:00changed the job description. For years,
211. 9:03Kane had played as a pure number n, the
212. 9:05last man, the finisher. Mourinho had
213. 9:08something else in mind. He told Kane to
214. 9:11drop deep, to collect the ball in
215. 9:13midfield, to turn and play passes over
216. 9:15the top for Son Hyung, who was faster
217. 9:18than anyone defending him. Critics had
218. 9:20spent 6 years saying Kane was too slow
219. 9:22to be world class. Mourinho's answer was
220. 9:25simple. Fine, then let the ball be fast.
221. 9:29It worked so well it almost looked
222. 9:31unfair. Kane and Son combined for 14
223. 9:34Premier League goals that season, a new
224. 9:36record for a partnership in a single
225. 9:38campaign. Kane finished with 23 league
226. 9:41goals and 14 assists. He won the golden
227. 9:44boot by one goal over Salah with a
228. 9:46strike on the final day at Leicester. He
229. 9:48won the playmaker award for the most
230. 9:50assists. He became the first player to
231. 9:52finish outright top of both lists since
232. 9:55Andy Cole in 1993 to94 before the
233. 9:58playmaker award even existed. Across all
234. 10:01competitions, 33 goals and 17 assists in
235. 10:0549 games. The slow one-dimensional goal
236. 10:08hanger had turned into the most complete
237. 10:10forward in the country under the manager
238. 10:13everyone said would kill attacking
239. 10:14football. Mourinho had promised Kane a
240. 10:17transformation. He delivered it. What he
241. 10:20could not deliver was the other half of
242. 10:22the deal and Tottenham were about to
243. 10:24make sure he never got the chance. On
244. 10:27April 19th, 2021, Tottenham were 6 days
245. 10:30away from a cup final, their first final
246. 10:33since Madrid, their best chance at a
247. 10:35trophy in years. So, naturally, they
248. 10:38sacked the manager. Spurs had been top
249. 10:40of the league in December. By April,
250. 10:42they had [music] collapsed seventh out
251. 10:45of Europe, losing leads they should have
252. 10:47protected. Daniel Levy had seen enough.
253. 10:51The Carabal Cup final against Manchester
254. 10:53City was on April 25th. Mourinho, the
255. 10:56man who told Kane he could not accept
256. 10:58winning nothing, was removed before he
257. 11:01could even try. Ryan Mason, a
258. 11:0329-year-old who had never managed a
259. 11:06senior game, took charge. Spurs lost 1
260. 11:09nil. Think about the shape of that.
261. 11:12Mourinho walked into Tottenham promising
262. 11:14Kane trophies. He walked out 6 days
263. 11:17before the first one was on the table.
264. 11:19Kane went through Pochettino, Mourinho,
265. 11:22and a caretaker in less than 2 years.
266. 11:25Still no medal. [music] When Kane
267. 11:27collected his golden boot and playmaker
268. 11:29awards a month later, he thanked his
269. 11:31teammates, the staff, and the coaches.
270. 11:34Jose and Ryan, he said, a thank you to a
271. 11:37man who had already left the building.
272. 11:39And the dream Mourinho had planted was
273. 11:42now growing in very uncomfortable
274. 11:44directions. If Tottenham could not give
275. 11:46Kane a trophy with the best season of
276. 11:48his life, when would they? That summer,
277. 11:51Kane decided he wanted out. And the club
278. 11:54that stopped him from leaving was about
279. 11:56to watch him break every record it had.
280. 12:00Summer 2021.
281. 12:02Manchester City wanted Harry Kane. Harry
282. 12:05Kane [music] wanted Manchester City.
283. 12:07Daniel Levy wanted neither of those
284. 12:09things to be true. The standoff dragged
285. 12:12through the entire summer. Kane was laid
286. 12:15back for preseason. City were reported
287. 12:17to have bid 100 million. Levy [music]
288. 12:20refused. In August, Kane announced he
289. 12:24was staying. Nobody believed he wanted
290. 12:26to. Antonio Conte arrived that November.
291. 12:30Conte was another serial winner
292. 12:32promising trophies. You can probably
293. 12:34guess how that went. Spurs did finish
294. 12:36fourth in 2022 and got back into the
295. 12:39Champions League. Kane scored 17 league
296. 12:42goals that season. most of them after
297. 12:44Christmas having scored once in the
298. 12:46first four months. Then the following
299. 12:49season fell apart. In March 2023, Conte
300. 12:53gave a press conference in which he
301. 12:54described his own players as selfish and
302. 12:57accused the club of a culture of never
303. 12:59winning. [music] He was gone within
304. 13:01days. Another manager, another promise,
305. 13:05another empty [music] cabinet. The
306. 13:07trophies never came. The records did. In
307. 13:11February 2023 against Manchester City of
308. 13:14all teams, Kane scored his 267th goal
309. 13:18for Tottenham. He passed Jimmy Greavves
310. 13:20to become the club's all-time top
311. 13:22scorer, a record that had stood for more
312. 13:25than 50 years. A month later against
313. 13:28Italy, he became England's all-time top
314. 13:30scorer, too, passing Wayne Rooney. So at
315. 13:3329, Harry Kane held the scoring record
316. 13:36for his club and his country, and he had
317. 13:39a trophy cabinet you could fit in a shoe
318. 13:41box with room left over for the shoes.
319. 13:44Mourinho had told him the world thought
320. 13:45the movie stars belong to other places.
321. 13:48Cain was finally ready to test the
322. 13:50theory the only way it could be tested,
323. 13:53by going to one of those places [music]
324. 13:54himself. In August 2023, Bayern Munich
325. 13:59came. This time, Levy said yes. And
326. 14:02within about 12 hours of signing,
327. 14:04[music] Kane would discover that the
328. 14:05curse had packed its bags and flown to
329. 14:08Germany with him. August [music] 12th,
330. 14:102023, Kane completes his move to Bayern
331. 14:14for a reported fee of over €100 million,
332. 14:18a club record. That same evening, Bayern
333. 14:21play a Leipzig in the German Super Cup.
334. 14:23They lose [music] 3 to zero. The jokes
335. 14:26wrote themselves. Bayern had won 11
336. 14:29Bundesliga titles in a row before Kane
337. 14:31arrived. [music] 11. It was the most
338. 14:34predictable outcome in European sport.
339. 14:37In Kane's first season, Bayer Leverkusen
340. 14:40went the entire league campaign unbeaten
341. 14:42and took the title. Bayern finished
342. 14:44third. Real Madrid knocked them out of
343. 14:46the Champions League semi-finals. For
344. 14:49the first time in 12 years, Bayern
345. 14:51Munich won nothing. Kane himself scored
346. 14:5536 Bundesliga goals in 32 games. He
347. 14:58shared the Gerd Müller trophy with Kian
348. 15:00Mbappe, 52 goals each. He won the
349. 15:03European Golden Shoe. Individually, it
350. 15:06was a historic debut season. None of it
351. 15:09mattered to the internet. The man had
352. 15:11broken one of the most reliable winning
353. 15:13machines in sport just by standing near
354. 15:15it. Then came Euro 2024.
355. 15:19England reached the final in Berlin.
356. 15:21Spain beat them 2 to1. Another final,
357. 15:24another losers medal. At this point,
358. 15:27Kane had attended more trophy ceremonies
359. 15:29as a spectator than some referees. That
360. 15:32summer, two new names entered his story.
361. 15:34Bayern hired Vincent [music] company, a
362. 15:37former Manchester City captain whom Kane
363. 15:39had spent years trying to score past.
364. 15:41England, a few months later, hired
365. 15:43Thomas Tuhul. Remember those names, too.
366. 15:46Kane would call them something much
367. 15:48shorter on the night it mattered. And
368. 15:50then finally in May 2025, it happened.
369. 15:55Bayern won the Bundesliga. Harry Kane,
370. 15:58aged 31, 11 years after his
371. 16:01breakthrough, lifted a major trophy. The
372. 16:04curse was broken. The joke was over. But
373. 16:08a league title in Germany was never what
374. 16:10that conversation in 2019 was about.
375. 16:13Mourinho had talked about movie stars,
376. 16:15about the world. To get there, Kane
377. 16:18would need a season nobody in the modern
378. 16:20game had produced except Messi himself.
379. 16:23He was 32 and he was about to have it.
380. 16:27Most strikers spend their 30s managing
381. 16:30decline. Kane spent his 32nd year making
382. 16:33a spreadsheet looked broken. Under
383. 16:36company, Bayern played higher, faster,
384. 16:38and more aggressively than at any
385. 16:40[music] point in Kane's time there. And
386. 16:42Kane, now in his 30s, played the exact
387. 16:45role Mourinho had built for him at
388. 16:46Tottenham. Drop deep, collect, turn,
389. 16:50play the pass for the runners, then
390. 16:52somehow arrive in the box. Anyway, in
391. 16:54the 2025 to 2026 [music]
392. 16:57season, he played 31 Bundesliga games
393. 16:59and scored 36 goals, his third straight
394. 17:02Bundesliga golden boot. He scored 10
395. 17:05goals in six DFB Cup games, and Bayern
396. 17:08won the cup for the first time in 6
397. 17:10years. In the Champions League, he
398. 17:12scored 14 goals in 13 games. Bayern
399. 17:16knocked out Real Madrid in the
400. 17:17quarterfinals, 6 to4 on aggregate. Then
401. 17:20they met Paris Sanjgera in the semis.
402. 17:23They lost the first leg 5 to four in
403. 17:25Paris. In the second leg in Munich,
404. 17:2875,000 people packed the Alian Arena
405. 17:31under a banner that read in German, fire
406. 17:34us into the final. Usman Dembele scored
407. 17:37for PSG in the third minute. Kane
408. 17:39equalized in the 94th minute. It was too
409. 17:42late. PSG went through 6 to5 on
410. 17:45aggregate and went on to the final
411. 17:47against Arsenal. So close it almost felt
412. 17:50like a punchline. The man who had spent
413. 17:52his entire career one game short of
414. 17:54glory had [music] found yet another one
415. 17:56game to be short of for Bayern. 51
416. 18:00games, 61 goals. A goal every 66
417. 18:03minutes. a second European Golden shoe,
418. 18:06nine goals clear of Erling Harland. Then
419. 18:09he went to the World Cup and kept going.
420. 18:12Seven games, six goals. England finished
421. 18:16third, their best result since 1966.
422. 18:19No trophy again. But this time, for
423. 18:22once, nobody was calling him a loser.
424. 18:25The conversation had quietly changed.
425. 18:27People had stopped asking whether Harry
426. 18:29Kane was world class. They had started
427. 18:31asking whether anyone in the world was
428. 18:34better. Add it up. 65 games for club and
429. 18:38country, 73 goals, eight assists. Since
430. 18:42the year 2000, only one player has
431. 18:44scored more goals in a single season.
432. 18:46Leonel Messi with 82 for Barcelona and
433. 18:49Argentina from 2011 to 2012. Read that
434. 18:53again. The kid Arsenal released for
435. 18:55being too slow. The looney nobody
436. 18:58wanted. The one season wonder finished
437. 19:01the season with only one name above him
438. 19:03in a quarter of a century, and it was
439. 19:05one of the two names he had said out
440. 19:07loud in Mourinho's office. The numbers
441. 19:09were done. The voting closed on
442. 19:12September 28th. All that was left was a
443. 19:15night in London, a night that somehow
444. 19:18still managed to go slightly wrong
445. 19:20before it went perfectly right. October
446. 19:2326th, 2026.
447. 19:26For the first time in its 70-year
448. 19:28history, the Balandor ceremony left
449. 19:30France. It came to London to honor
450. 19:33Stanley Matthews, the first winner. In
451. 19:351956, the night began in chaos. Hours
452. 19:39before the ceremony, the Balandor
453. 19:41website published three separate
454. 19:43articles naming three separate winners,
455. 19:46Kain, Laminal, Mbappe. Then, London
456. 19:49traffic delayed the whole thing by 45
457. 19:52minutes. A fitting welcome to the city
458. 19:54if you have ever tried to drive through
459. 19:56it. Before this year, Kane had never
460. 19:59finished higher than 10th in a Balandor
461. 20:01vote. Never. Not after the golden boots,
462. 20:04not after the 56 goals in 2017. Not
463. 20:08after the World Cup golden boot in 2018.
464. 20:11The movie stars, as Mourinho put it,
465. 20:13belonged to other places. Then they read
466. 20:16the name Harry Kane. Chance of Harry
467. 20:20rolled around the London palladium.
468. 20:22Second place, Kian Mbappé. Third,
469. 20:25Laminal. Fourth, Rodri. Fifth, Lionel
470. 20:29Messi. Kane became the first Englishman
471. 20:32to win the Balonor since Michael Owen in
472. 20:342001. Only the fifth in history at 33
473. 20:39years old. And then he did something
474. 20:41unusual. He thanked his coaches, not as
475. 20:44a group, one by one. Bradley Allen,
476. 20:47Chris Ramsey, John McDermott, Alex
477. 20:50Inglethorp, Tim Sherwood, [music] Ryan
478. 20:52Mason, Kenny Jacket, Russell Slade,
479. 20:55Harry Rednap, Maritzio Pochettino, Jose
480. 20:58Mourinho, then Antonio Conte, Roy
481. 21:01Hodgson, Gareth Southgate, and finally
482. 21:04the two men he now works for, Vinnie and
483. 21:07Thomas, Kenny Jacket at Milwall, Russell
484. 21:10Slade at Leighton Orient, the Lone
485. 21:12Spells, the four dressing rooms nobody
486. 21:14remembers. They were all there in the
487. 21:17list. I didn't go straight to the top,
488. 21:19he said. I had to experience a lot of
489. 21:21loan moves. Within hours, a 7-year-old
490. 21:24clip went viral all over again. A small
491. 21:27office, a new manager, a camera in the
492. 21:30corner. The movie stars of football
493. 21:32belong to other places. They do not
494. 21:35anymore. One detail the viral clip
495. 21:38leaves out. Kane had been talking about
496. 21:40Messi and Ronaldo since 2017, 2 years
497. 21:44before Mourinho walked into that office.
498. 21:46The dream was always his. What Mourinho
499. 21:50did was something different. He was the
500. 21:52first person with that kind of name and
501. 21:54that kind of medal collection [music] to
502. 21:56look Kane in the eye and treat the dream
503. 21:58as a plan. He never [music] got to
504. 22:00finish it. He was sacked 6 days before
505. 22:03his first final. He never won Cain a
506. 22:06single trophy, but he told him it was
507. 22:09coming. 7 years later, the rest of the
508. 22:12world finally caught up.