Tottenham’s Harry Kane wants to become NFL kicker

Tottenham Hotspur striker and England men’s national team captain Harry Kane wants to one day exchange his international football boots for a chance to kick in NFL games. 

“It’s something I want to definitely explore,” Kane said about possibly becoming an NFL placekicker during a Wednesday appearance on “Good Morning America,” per Jeremy Bergman of the league’s website. “I know it will be a lot of hard work. I’m not expecting to just walk up and start kicking field goals. It would be a lot of practice, a lot of hard work. But yeah, it’s something I’d love to do. The NFL is something I have been following for about 10 years now, and I love it, so I would love to give it a go.”

Kane, a three-time Premier League Golden Boot winner as the competition’s top scorer for a season, turns 30 years old this summer and remains in the prime of his current career. 

Outlets such as Sky Sports News have recently linked him with a summer move to Manchester United after Tottenham finished eighth in the league table and missed out on next season’s UEFA Champions League tournament.

Back in July 2019, George Flood of the Evening Standard wrote about how Kane said at that time that kicking in the NFL was “something that in 10 or 12 years I definitely want to try.” Kane has a history of making field goals in practice situations:

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