One among European soccer’s most outstanding streaks got here to an finish this weekend – and followers are blaming the ‘Harry Kane curse’.
Bayern Munich had been pressured to observe as rivals Bayer Leverkusen wrapped up a first-ever Bundesliga title on the weekend once they thrashed Werder Bremen 5-0 to provide Xabi Alonso’s facet an unassailable 16-point lead on the prime of the desk, with 5 video games remaining.
That ended Kane’s hopes of a first-ever league title following a summer season transfer from Tottenham, but it surely additionally marked the top of teammate Kingsley Coman’s run of profitable the league title in each season of his profession.
Coman’s skilled debut got here on the age of 16 in February 2013 at Paris Saint-Germain, who would go on to win the Ligue 1 title that season and observe it up with one other success 12 months later.
A transfer to Juventus adopted in 2014, with Coman profitable Serie A in each of his seasons in Turin. The France worldwide moved to Bayern in 2015, initially on mortgage and was a key participant in eight consecutive title-winning seasons.
That made it 12 league titles in 11 years (he double-dipped with Juve and Bayern in 2015/16), however now for the primary time since making his skilled debut, Coman can’t name himself a title winner.
Naturally, the top of Coman’s streak coinciding with Kane’s arrival didn’t go unnoticed on social media, with lots of of posts ‘blaming’ the England captain’s ‘curse’ for placing an finish to Coman’s run, regardless of Kane netting 32 occasions in 29 Bundesliga appearances this season.
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Coman nonetheless has an opportunity to make sure that he doesn’t endure a primary trophyless season, as Bayern look to progress previous Kane’s previous rivals Arsenal within the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday night.
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