Asked whether his acupuncture work with Dr. Alejandro Elorriaga Claraco transformed him after years of ankle and hamstring injuries, Harry Kane said:

Yeah, without a doubt. I tore my hamstring pretty much off the bone in 2020, I believe, and that was off the back of having many ankle injuries and rarely having a full season where I was fit.

We got in touch, then started working a few months later. COVID happened, so it gave me, I think, seven months between my injury and getting back playing again, which looking back gave me the time I maybe needed to get the help.

And then from that moment we pretty much work every month for a few days, with all the needles, a lot of nervous system stuff. Honestly, I don’t know if I’d be at this stage in my career without that work and without him.

It was an incredible find, I guess. Not everyone’s lucky enough to maybe find someone like that who can help them at that stage in their career.

On the results of his treatments:

The results, and I think just the facts, are there. I think I’ve maybe missed, you know, around 10, 15 games in the last seven years, and the previous seven years was more around 60, 70 games.

So just from that point of view, I know it’s worked, and just the level I’m playing at at 33 years old just tells me that everything we’re doing is on the right track.

In a separate lecture, Claraco explained the goal of his treatments:

The ultimate goal of most treatments is to vasodilate, improve perfusion, and then let the cells regulate themselves with the new energy and the new temperature that facilitates activity.

On repeated treatments:

Repeated treatments are like exercise. They will reinforce the aspects involved in the response to that given input.

On his treatment philosophy:

The power is in the body, not in the tools.

Kane was also asked whether he could emulate Wayne Rooney by moving deeper into midfield as he gets older:

Maybe, yeah. I think it’s possible for me to play in midfield, no doubt. I think it kind of depends on the system that you play, the coach you’re playing for.

Right now, you know, I have a lot of freedom in where I can go, where I can move. So although I’m a striker on paper, I think I play in many different positions on the pitch, and I kind of find the space where I think it’s going to affect the game and use my different qualities to help the team.

But also, it then allows me to arrive in the box in different areas, and I’m not so easy to pick up for defenders.

I think I’d always be a player that wants to score 30, 40, 50 goals a season, and I think any manager out there would probably see me as that type of player.

But I guess time will tell, and there might be a time where it will suit the team to drop a little bit deeper. But right now that free role I have is working really well.

He basically is a midfielder today. Just don’t ask him to play as a fullback.