OT: ESPN profile on Harry Kane mentions how he was inspired by Brady

So I was just reading ESPN's profile on Harry Kane (striker for Tottenham Hotspur, captain of the England national team, one of the best strikers in the world), and came across this part:

Kane was on loan somewhere -- he doesn't even remember where, there were so many -- when he first became aware of Tom Brady.

"I started watching him on YouTube," Kane says. When he came across a documentary about the quarterback, he watched that too. "We've had a similar path being doubted when we were younger. Maybe not being the best athletes as kids." In Brady, who had willed his way to stardom by refusing to accept anyone else's judgment, Kane saw a finished version of himself. "It was quite a big inspiration," he adds. "Not many people thought he'd become that good, or even play in the NFL, and he went on to become the best ever. At the time, it gave me a real boost to say, look, anything is possible. If you have that self-belief and that drive and that hunger, you can do it."

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Harry Kane wants to conquer the Premier League ... then the NFL

I know a bunch of people here hate soccer and are going to be mad that anyone here has the nerve to have any kind of soccer-adjacent discussion on this board, but I thought it was cool because it really cements how far-reaching Brady's legacy.

Basically, it increasingly clear that Brady's long-term legacy is going to be that every kid who's told he isn't athletic enough to make it 'make it' will be able to just point to Brady and understand that it's at least possible. Even someone who lives on a different continent and has no real exposure to the NFL and doesn't give a **** about football outside of what Brady's success can teach them. It's a lesson that pretty much applies to every kid, everywhere, playing every sport. And I think that's really, really cool.

Harry Kane has certainly made the most of his talent. He's not very good technically, for an elite striker, but his work ethic and attitude makes up for it.

Death to BSPN! That is all.

Soccer, eh?

KontradictioN said:

Soccer, eh?

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There is a good chance that more people worldwide know and can tell you something about Harry Kane than Tom Brady.

luuked said:

There is a good chance that more people worldwide know and can tell you something about Harry Kane than Tom Brady.

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That's because more people worldwide have horrific taste in sports.

KontradictioN said:

That's because more people worldwide have horrific taste in sports.

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I am sure that from your POV this is true.

As a Spurs fan (Kane's team), hopefully this doesnt happen for a fair few years yet.

You could not find a better ambassador for your club then Kane though. He's a proper throwback, who makes the best out of himself from sheer hard work

The expected 'soccer sucks' comment didn't take long.

Who?

luuked said:

I am sure that from your POV this is true.

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No, from many POVs, that’s true. Highly boring sport where flopping is even worse than the NBA, which is really saying something. A world that enjoys soccer more than any other sport is a world that has **** taste.

Who’s Harry Kane?

AndyJohnson said:

Who?

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One of the best soccer players in the world. Think about it this way: people in England care even less about football than you do about soccer, and yet the best English soccer player alive got a bunch of his motivation from Tom Brady. That says quite a bit for Brady, IMO.

BradyFTW! said:

One of the best soccer players in the world. Think about it this way: people in England care even less about football than you do about soccer, and yet the best English soccer player alive got a bunch of his motivation from Tom Brady. That says quite a bit for Brady, IMO.

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I like the story. It’s something similar I’ll tell my kids when they face adversity.

Michael Jordan famously didn’t make his high school varsity team, and that story has been used in a similar vein. But Brady’s surpasses that by miles. They were separated by 196 draft picks after all

KontradictioN said:

That's because more people worldwide have horrific taste in sports.

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Well that and imperialism.

But seriously I'd pay decent money to just have an app to blacklist soccer from anything I view. It's offensively terrible.

BradyFTW! said:

Think about it this way: people in England care even less about football than you do about soccer, IMO.

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Oh I doubt it.

FWIW...

KontradictioN said:

No, from many POVs, that’s true. Highly boring sport where flopping is even worse than the NBA, which is really saying something. A world that enjoys soccer more than any other sport is a world that has **** taste.

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At least the games don’t last more than three hours with tv breaks after every piece of action. I love The American version of football, but it can be a pain in the ass to watch sometimes. Which is why I either watch Patriot games because I have a rooting interest or the red zone.

ESPN and soccer. Two things I’ll pass on. To each their own though of course.

KontradictioN said:

No, from many POVs, that’s true. Highly boring sport where flopping is even worse than the NBA, which is really saying something. A world that enjoys soccer more than any other sport is a world that has **** taste.

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Nothing is worse than NBA basketball.

If soccer gave team’s 7 points for every goal Americans would be enthralled by how high scoring it is.

Nothing more exciting than two minutes of dead time for ever 5 seconds of play.