Harry Kane has brought back talk of one of football's strangest crossover ambitions. Speaking to reporters at St George's Park on Wednesday, he said a future move to MLS could open the door to a parallel career as an NFL placekicker. The comments came as England prepared to host World Cup winners Spain in the Nations League on Saturday. Kane, England's captain and in career-best form at Bayern Munich, used the pre-match media session to look years ahead rather than just at the weekend's opponent.
Kane turned 33 in July. He is coming off a 73-goal campaign for Bayern that has made him a leading contender for the 2026 Ballon d'Or. Reports suggest he is "fairly close" to signing a new contract in Munich. That form makes the NFL talk feel more like distant ambition than an imminent plan, but Kane has now floated it with real specificity for the first time.
Kane's logic centres on his penalty-taking. He argues the technique and pressure translate directly to placekicking. He pointed to Dallas Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey, a former MLS-drafted player at Toronto FC now regarded as one of the NFL's most accurate kickers, as proof the pathway from soccer to American football is viable. Former Tottenham striker Clive Allen, who played for the London Monarchs in NFL Europe, offers an earlier precedent. Kane's own record lends weight to his case. His career has been built on precision finishing and clinical penalty-taking for Tottenham, Bayern and England, plus a self-described long-time admiration for Tom Brady. That gives the ambition more substance than a passing throwaway line.
Kane said, "Maybe if I am in the MLS in the future or somewhere like that it might be a thing where you could connect the two maybe with the seasons," Kane told reporters, via The Athletic. "That is something I will try and look at a bit more seriously. It all depends on what happens in my career over the next five or six years, the motivation and what I want to do. The NFL is a lot more realistic than the golf one, let's put it that way."
On the technical crossover, Kane added: "I take penalties and it is a very similar pressure, technique. If I did that, in terms of training, I would be closer to that more than any other sport. If I was to do it, it is something I would take seriously. I would take maybe six months to a year of trying to practice before."
Kane was quick to stress the dream remains firmly on the back burner while he is thriving in Europe. "If people know I am still on the top of my game here with football, it is not a conversation that would be had," he said. He added that at 33 he is "trying to extract everything I can" from the years he has left at the top. It is not a new fantasy. Kane first floated a "10 or 12 years" NFL timeline to ESPN back in 2019. With Bayern talks advancing and MLS increasingly framed as a realistic late-career destination, the pieces of a genuine two-sport plan are starting to look connected.
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