In Munich, Harry Kane remains focused on extending a career that has carried him from England to Bayern Munich. Yet the striker has already begun considering a very different destination after football: an attempt to become an NFL kicker in the United States.
The 33-year-old has said the idea is not an immediate project, with his priority still to play for as long as possible. A future spell in Major League Soccer could, however, bring him closer to American football and make such a move more practical.
Quick facts
- Harry Kane is considering a future attempt to play in the NFL as a kicker.
- The Bayern Munich and England forward is 33 and has no current plan to retire.
- He believes an eventual move to MLS could create a link to the NFL.
- Kane has a close relationship with former NFL quarterback Tom Brady and is a long-time NFL supporter.
Kane described the NFL route as a possibility he intends to examine more carefully once the direction of his football career becomes clearer. He said the next five or six years, his motivation and his own ambitions would determine whether the idea becomes realistic.
“It is something I will look into more seriously,” Kane said. “It all depends on what happens in my career over the next five or six years, my motivation and what I want to do.”
A kicker would be the natural role for a player whose career has been built on striking a ball cleanly under pressure. In American football, kickers take field-goal attempts and extra points, sending the ball through the uprights with their feet.
Kane has raised the prospect before, and his continued contact with the NFL during the 2026 World Cup in the United States has kept the thought alive. His friendship with Brady has also helped sustain an interest that goes beyond a casual fascination with the game.
For Kane, American football appears a more attainable second sporting career than golf. He suggested that living and playing in the United States, particularly in MLS, could offer a bridge between the two sports.
“The NFL is much more realistic than golf,” he said. “If I am in MLS in the future, or somewhere like that, perhaps there can be a connection. But it is only in my mind because right now I want to play as much as I can.”
The forward made clear that retirement is not close. Having collected the European Golden Shoe for the 2025/26 season, Kane intends to draw as much as he can from the remaining years of his elite football career.
“When you reach my age, 33, you sometimes start thinking about retirement or the future,” Kane said. “But I am trying to get everything I can from the next two, five or 10 years. I will keep going.”
