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Powys County Times
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Powys County Times
Harry Kane wins first major silverware as Bayern Munich seal Bundesliga title
Harry Kane's long wait for the first major title of his career is over after Bayern Munich were crowned Bundesliga champions following Bayer Leverkusen's 2-2 draw at Freiburg. Leverkusen fought back from 2-0 down to secure a point, but the result left them eight points behind Bayern with two games to play and meant England captain Kane secured silverware in his second season in Germany, having joined Bayern from Tottenham in 2023. Kane posted a video on social media soon after the final whistle in Freiburg, alongside the words 'We are the Champions' on X and 'What a feeling' on Instagram, showing him and his team-mates singing the Queen song during celebrations in a bar. We are the Champions!! ๐ โ Harry Kane (@HKane) May 4, 2025 Alan Shearer, Robbie Keane and John Terry were among those to quickly offer congratulations to the 31-year-old. Xabi Alonso's team needed to beat top-four rivals Freiburg on Sunday to retain faint hopes of retaining their crown. Bayern's bid to seal a record-extending 34th German league title was delayed on Saturday after they conceded a stoppage-time equaliser in a 3-3 draw at Leipzig. Kane, for whom Bayern paid ยฃ86.4million plus add-ons, was suspended for that match and was poised to celebrate on the touchline when Yussuf Poulsen struck for Leipzig in the fifth minute of added time. ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ Brought it home. For the club, for the fans, for the city. โค๏ธ๐ค #MiaSanMeister โ FC Bayern (@FCBayernEN) May 4, 2025 Bayern head coach Vincent Kompany has wrestled back the domestic crown in his first campaign at the club following his appointment as Thomas Tuchel's successor last May. Leverkusen's Bundesliga title triumph last season briefly halted Bayern's stranglehold on the competition after they had been champions for 11 successive years. That run is the longest period of dominance by one club in Europe's major leagues, while all bar one of Bayern's 34 title successes have been achieved in the last 56 years.
CNN
04-05-2025
- Sport
- CNN
Bayern Munich crowned Bundesliga champion for 33rd time after Bayer Leverkusen drew a tie against Freiburg
Bayern Munich has been crowned Bundesliga champion for a record-extending 33rd time with two games remaining after its closest title rival Bayer Leverkusen drew a 2-2 tie against SC Freiburg on Sunday afternoon. Down 2-1 in extra time, Bayer Leverkusen's Jonathan Tah leveled the game on a flicked header which found the far bottom corner at Europa-Park Stadion. But the dramatic equalizer was not enough to deprive Munich of yet another Bundesliga trophy. Bayern was on the verge of claiming the title on Saturday after goals from Eric Dier, Michael Olise and Leroy Sanรฉ powered Vincent Kompany's team to a remarkable comeback against RB Leipzig, which had led 2-0 at halftime. But the celebrations had to be delayed when Leipzig forward Yussuf Poulsen equalized in the fourth minute of second-half injury time. However, Sunday's result means that Bayer Leverkusen โ last year's champion โ can no longer catch Bayern, despite having two games left to play. Leverkusen's title win in 2023-24 is the only time in the last 13 seasons that a team other than Bayern has been German champion. ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐Brought it home. For the club, for the fans, for the city. โค๏ธ๐ค#MiaSanMeister Borussia Dortmund and Borussia Mรถnchengladbach, the joint-second most successful teams in Bundesliga history, have five titles each since the league's inaugural season began in 1963. Kompany has impressed domestically in his first year since joining from English club Burnley, with Bayern having sat top of the league since the third week of the season. The title win also represents the first time that English striker Harry Kane has ever won silverware with club or country. The former Tottenham Hotspur player has lost in the European Championship final on two occasions and the Champions League final once, but can now add a club trophy to his long list of personal accolades.
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Kane able to call himself a champ at last with Bayern
The "curse" has been lifted. Harry Kane can finally celebrate his first career title after Bayern Munich became Bundesliga champions on Sunday -- with a little help from Freiburg. Freiburg drew with second-placed Bayer Leverkusen 2-2 to ensure Bayern are an unassailable eight points clear of the 2024 champions with two rounds of the German league remaining. ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐Brought it home. For the club, for the fans, for the city. โค๏ธ๐ค#MiaSanMeister โ FC Bayern (@FCBayernEN) May 4, 2025 England captain Kane, one of the best players of his generation, had never won a title in a career of runner-up finishes and individual top-scorer awards with England and Tottenham, leading some to speak of a "curse" against the player. Kane had been ready to celebrate on Saturday when Bayern looked set to win 3-2 in Leipzig, but Yussuf Poulsen equalised with the last kick of the game for Leipzig to draw 3-3 and postpone Bayern's party for one day at least. "Next week, Harry!" teammate Thomas Muller wrote on Instagram. But Kane didn't even have to wait that long. For Leverkusen played without conviction in Freiburg, where Matej Kovar saved the game's first real chance from Patrick Osterhage but was powerless to stop Maximilian Eggestein from firing the home team ahead before the break. An own-goal from Piero Hincapie after the break โ while trying to prevent Junior Adamu from scoring โ put Freiburg in control. Leverkusen had to wait till the 82nd minute for Florian Wirtz to pull one back with his team's first shot on target. Jonathan Tah equalised with the next in stoppage time, but it made no difference for the new league champions.
Telegraph
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Telegraph
โThis should shut up all the idiots who say Harry Kane has never won anything'
For years Harry Kane would have swapped every one of his personal records for a first major trophy, but now the striker has the winner's medal to go alongside all the milestones, to consolidate his place among his generation's greatest players. No longer a nearly man or the first pick in the debate over the best players never to have won silverware, Kane has finally lifted a trophy after Bayern Munich were crowned Bundesliga champions. ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ Brought it home. For the club, for the fans, for the city. โค๏ธ๐ค #MiaSanMeister โ FC Bayern (@FCBayernEN) May 4, 2025 The record goalscorer for England and Tottenham Hotspur, Kane has filled the one glaring hole on his glittering CV by adding title-winner. Walthamstow-born Kane joined his first club, Ridgeway Rovers, as a six-year-old in 1999. Released by Arsenal's academy, he had a trial at Watford before being given a second chance at Tottenham following an unsuccessful initial trial. There was scepticism from day one. Now, nobody can argue with his place among the elite. It is striking that every coach who has worked with Kane says the same thing. Whether it be his first manager at Ridgeway, Dave Bricknell, former striker Bradley Allen, whom Kane's family credit as the first person at Tottenham to champion him, or serial winner Antonio Conte. No player is more deserving of success than Kane. Kane scored 30 Premier League goals in his final season at Tottenham under Conte, who, in an exclusive interview with Telegraph Sport last year, said: 'I think he needed to go and to change, to find another club, another mentality, another situation. It was important for him. 'He deserves to win trophies and we are talking about one of the best strikers in the world. He is one of the best I've worked with, for sure. He's a good guy and a good person, too. He needed this new experience, another chance. Now he is a more complete player than before.' Kane lost a Champions League final under Mauricio Pochettino with Spurs. He lost two European Championship finals with former England manager Gareth Southgate. He missed out on Bundesliga and Champions League success in his first season at Bayern under Thomas Tuchel, who is now his England manager. Josรฉ Mourinho has claimed that Kane would have won that elusive first trophy under him had Tottenham not sacked the Portuguese days before the Carabao Cup final in 2021. All those managers who went close with Kane are likely to be part of a long list of well-wishers. Yet it may well be messages from two of the men who were there from the very start, Bricknell and Allen, that will be among the most special. Allen has worked at the Tottenham academy for 20 years, two of which were spent coaching Kane from the under-14s to under-16s, and helping him to practise his finishing. 'I was still a bit fitter back then, so I was able to strike a few balls with him,' said Allen, who scored 27 goals in 81 league games for Queens Park Rangers and is the brother of Clive and son of another Spurs legend, 1961 Double winner Les. 'The art of sticking the ball in the back of the net, he embraced that and really had a thirst to improve. 'We still text one another, I'm constantly in contact with him. After every goal that he scores, I text him. That's a lot of textsโฆthere's been 60-odd texts since he's been in Germany! But he always immediately replies, so it's great. Absolutely, I'll be texting him and the family. I'm sure that will be a special moment. I may well even call him. 'I'm sure it will mean so much to him. The disappointments of participating in and playing in some of those big games for Tottenham and England without getting over the line. Just to lift some silverware and be a part of something will mean an enormous amount to him. It might just be getting that first and him actually experiencing that to then go on and get a good few more.' Bricknell initially put Kane in goal for a shooting drill before being gently told that the boy who would go on to be his country's greatest ever goalscorer was an outfield player. Asked how he would like to congratulate Kane for lifting his first trophy, Bricknell said: 'You should be very proud of yourself, H. You're a credit to your profession. You thoroughly deserve everything that comes your way.' Bricknell also coached Kane's wife Katie, when she played at Ridgeway, and said: 'I see Harry's mum and dad, Pat and Kim, every now and again. Just before Christmas, we went to the Lapland UK attraction. I'm walking around with my grandkids and my son came over and said, 'Look who's here' and it was Kate. She was there with a couple of her and Harry's kids and she said, 'I knew you were here Dave, I could hear your voice!'. Kate used to come to my soccer school, as well as Harry, when they were younger. 'Whenever Harry's done something, I've always sent a text to his dad Pat. They're just a really lovely family and Harry is a credit to them because he's a model professional. He's the perfect role model, you never see or hear of him being in any trouble. I don't know anybody who's got a bad word to say about him. 'I was gutted for him that Bayern got knocked out of the Champions League because I was desperate for them to win it. I've said from day one that I hope he smashes it there. He's had an unbelievable career, no matter what all these idiots say about him not winning anything, and this should shut them up. To do what he's done is phenomenal.' Kane has joined a select list of English footballers to win a title overseas and his adaptation to life in Germany has been impressive. Having spent the first five months in Munich on his own, the 31-year-old was joined by his family, Katie and their four children, Ivy, Vivienne, Louis and Henry, last January. With his children in school and enjoying weekends skiing, life in Germany away from football resembles Kane's lifestyle in England โ training, playing golf and spending time at home with his family. View this post on Instagram A post shared by @katekanex Last month, a goal against St Pauli meant that he has scored against all 19 Bundesliga teams he has faced with Bayern and, in April, Kane became the fastest player ever to reach 60 Bundesliga goals, having done so in the same number of games. 'To go to Bayern and do what he's done, I think it's been remarkable,' said Allen. 'A different country, a different culture, a different language. Yes they are one of the biggest teams in European football, but you've still got to do it. Bayer Leverkusen were brilliant last season, but Bayern and Harry have gone again.' There have been twice-weekly German lessons for Kane to fit in and, by his own admission, learning the language has not been easy. But, never one to rest on his achievements, a club video charting the striker's progress in the classroom revealed his greatest ambition. During a task in which his teacher poses a question in English to which Kane must reply in German, he is asked: 'What is your biggest dream?' Sat with his hands behind his head, the England captain replies: 'My biggest dream is to win the Champions League.' 'Come on, Deutsche,' says his teacher. To which Kane, with some prompting, slowly says: ' Mein grรถsser traum ist es, die Champions League zu gewinnen.' Asked why, Kane is then taught in German how to say: 'Because I wanted to win it since I was a child'. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ @HKane lernt Deutsch ๐ฉ๐ช Seid bei einer Deutschstunde mit Harry dabei! ๐ #FCBayern #MiaSanMia โ FC Bayern Mรผnchen (@FCBayern) March 27, 2025 That particular childhood dream will have to wait for at least one more season, but Kane will hope that his Bundesliga trophy is one of many, while others wonder if there is one more personal record he will chase. 'I would like to see Harry come back and set the Premier League record,' said Allen. 'That, for him, would really put him on a pedestal. He'd be undisputed No 1. Alan Shearer, in my era, was extraordinary, scoring 260 goals. A stunning, stunning record that has stood for so long. But those records are always there to be broken one day.'
