Harry Kane capped off his remarkable club season in perfect fashion, as his hat-trick sealed German Cup glory for Bayern Munich.
Kane scored three second-half goals as Bayern swept aside Stuttgart in the final at Berlin’s Olympiastadion.
The 32-year-old headed home the opener after 55 minutes and rounded off his treble from the penalty spot in stoppage time.
Harry Kane celebrates after heading in the opener during Bayern Munich’s 3-0 German Cup final win over Stuttgart
The England captain is mobbed by his team-mates, including former Liverpool winger Luis Diaz
Kane lifts the German Cup trophy having done the domestic double with Bayern
The pick of his goals was his second, however. After rattling the crossbar from 25 yards, he span Stuttgart’s Chema Anders brilliantly in the box before slotting home.
Kane, mocked for so long for his sparse trophy cabinet, has now added the DFB Pokal to his two Bundesliga winner’s medals.
The 32-year-old scored in every single round of the competition, and his treble in the final took his goal tally for the season to 61 – a return made all the more astonishing by the fact he managed it in only 51 games.
Former Bayern boss Thomas Tuchel will have been delighted by Kane’s performance.
His captain heads into the World Cup as the most in-form striker in Europe. England’s campaign gets underway against Croatia on June 17, and Kane said on Friday: ‘I’m extremely proud to be going to another World Cup.
‘I never take these moments for granted, these are the moments I dreamed of growing up.’
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