Harry Kane .. “English Number Crusher”!

Amr Obaid (Cairo)
The English star and top scorer, Harry Kane, revealed a few days ago his clear desire to break the record of his able compatriot, Wayne Rooney, the top scorer for the England team through the ages, before the start of the next World Cup in Qatar at the end of this year, and what seemed like a kind of enthusiasm Excess and anticipation of events, but Kane’s insistence and great ambition began to turn into a reality after reaching the “No. 50” goal in his career with the “Three Lions”, and even exceeded that by refusing to get some rest after playing 60 games in various tournaments with Tottenham and the national team. This season, the English newspapers confirmed that “Prince Harry”, as he was called, called on his coach, Southgate, to play the next match against Italy, two days later, in the European Nations League.
Kane has a real chance to equalize Rooney’s number, which stopped at the “53 index” 6 years ago, because the England team has 4 matches in the “old continent” Nations League, and a good number of friendly matches can be added before its expected participation in the World Cup in Qatar. Which means that the current year, 2022, may witness Kane ascending the list of top scorers of the “Three Lions”, which is only 3 goals away from him, and this will not be strange at all, because the rates of the “Spurs” scorer exceed all normal limits after it took 7 years Only, from playing under the flag of England to reach that high rank in the ranking of historical scorers, which no one else has ever achieved!
Some may talk about the increase in the number of international matches played by teams around the world in the recent era, but this matter did not make the difference for Harry Kane, who scored his 50 goals in only 71 matches, and is not among the list of the 10 most international players with the “lions.” The three”, scoring an average of 0.7 goals per match gave him fourth place in the “Top 10” list, and Kane is the fastest in history to rise the ranks of the scorers list in an amazing way, as Rooney topped it by playing in the England shirt for 15 years, more than double Harry’s period, and before him, was the best number recorded in the name of the legendary Gary Lineker, who defended the national team’s colors for 8 years, but his harvest stopped at the number 48, while the “World Cup” Jimmy Greaves scored 44 goals in 8 years as well, and he is one of the legends of Tottenham and his historical scorer. , whose number is also threatened by Harry Kane, who needs only 19 goals with the “roosters” to surpass Graves’ 266 goals.
In terms of scoring rates, the numbers of the ancient “amateur” Vivian Woodward, who also played in the Tottenham shirt at the beginning of the last century, scored 29 international goals in only 23 matches in 8 years, at a rate of 1.26 / games with a number that no other player was able to destroy. Woodward remained at the top of England for 47 years without any other scorer approaching, until Tom Finney came in 1958 to exceed his number with the 30th goal before Nat Lofthouse catches him in the same year and the same harvest.
Lofthouse, the late Bolton scorer, has the second-best scoring average with 0.91 / game, followed by Graves with 0.77, then Harry Kane with 0.7, a clear difference from Wayne Rooney, who has an average of 0.44 goals / game, and Kane of course outperforms Lineker, who has an average of 0.6 and 0.48 for the icon. Alan Shearer and 0.45 to Michael Owen.
Woodward has retained the top scorer over 47 years, which is the longest period ever in the history of the “Three Lions” scorer, followed by the 45-year period in which Sir Bobby Charlton owned the title before Rooney snatched it from him in 2015 with his 50th goal, and the funny thing is that Charlton only needed 5 years to exceed the No. Finney and Lofthouse, and becomes the fastest record-breaking scorer in 1963, and if Harry Kane succeeds in overtaking Rooney at the top during the remaining months of this year, he will also break the “walk” record as the fastest to snatch the title of historical scorer after only 4 years of retirement “United Golden Boy”.