Kane's rise from childhood keeper to the best in the world

Harry Kane has been named as the world's best player at the Ballon d'Or awards. BBC Sport charts his remarkable career. Harry Kane with older brother Charlie and, right, with David Beckham and now wife Katie Goodland The Bayern Munich striker continued his remarkable career journey on Monday night by becoming the first Englishman to win the Ballon d'Or for 25 years. He is already England's joint record appearance maker and his country's record scorer with 89 goals in 124 appearances in an international career he started by opening his account 79 seconds into his debut. It hasn't been the smoothest of journeys. From being rejected by Arsenal to loan spells in the Football League, the 33-year-old has had to defy the doubters throughout.

BBC Sport takes a look at the origin story of the England captain. Kane ends England's 25-year Ballon d'Or wait – how he bucked the trend When a six-year-old Harry Kane arrived for trials with Ridgeway Rovers in 1999, the youth side – who a generation earlier had produced David Beckham – thought they had found themselves a new goalkeeper. Dave Bricknell, former Ridgeway Rovers coach: "We're doing a little shooting session, and I ask for a lad who can go in goal. "This little boy puts his hand up and says: 'I'll go in goal.'