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Harry Kane extends title drought: How many finals has he lost?

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By Reinaldo Oliveros

15 Jul 2024, 11:54 AM EDT

Harry Kane’s bad luck continues after the defeat in the Euro final. The England striker has been one of the best footballers in 10 yearsbut at the level of collective titles, Kane has not been successful.

With the defeat at Euro 2024, Harry Kane has now lost six finals in his professional career and has no league titles.

The first final he lost was the League Cup in 2015 with Tottenham of the Premier League.

With the Spurs, The Englishman lost three finals, including a UEFA Champions League final. In that final, Kane and Tottenham fell to Mohamed Salah and Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool.

Harry Kane has lost two Euro finals in his career. Both have been consecutive in 2021 and 2024. This Sunday they lost 2-1 to Spain and in 2021 they lost on penalties to the England team.

At an individual level, Kane has another side to him, having won nine goalscoring titles in different competitions. He won the Premier League Golden Boot three times, winning the World Cup Golden Boot in Russia in 2018.

He also won the Bundesliga Golden Boot in his first season with Bayern Munich.

Harry Kane expresses his pain after losing at Euro 2024

Harry Kane, captain of the English national team, said this Sunday, after losing his second consecutive Euro Cup final, that it is “difficult” to express the team’s feelings, but stressed that “it will hurt for a long time”, while adding that Gareth Southgate “will take some time” to decide whether he will continue.

“It’s a missed opportunity. It’s not easy to get to these finals. “You have to take advantage of it when it comes and we haven’t done that again. It’s extremely painful and it will hurt for a long time. Gareth will take his time to decide. We wanted to win it for him,” he told ‘ITV’ after Sunday’s match in Berlin.

“It’s hard to put into words how we feel right now. “It was a tough game. We got into the game well and it was hard for us to take advantage of it. Conceding a goal in the last few minutes is very tough,” added the footballer, who recalled that his team has been “coming back” in each tie and has not taken “the next step to win.”

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