NFL hall of famer Morten Andersen has offered to work with Harry Kane to fulfil his ambition of becoming a kicker once he retires.
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The Tottenham striker is a huge New England Patriots fan and is serious about switching sports once he hangs up his boots.
He could not wish for a better teacher in Andersen who enjoyed an incredible career and still holds dozens of NFL records.
Andersen, ambassador for betting comparison site BonusCodeBets.co.uk, told talkSPORT: “I don’t think he would have a big learning curve. I would love to work with him. I think that would be fascinating. I think he needs to put on a different hat mentally and understand that we also have to put equipment on.
“He’s playing in shorts and a shirt. He’s not wearing a helmet and shoulder pads. It changes things and the precision with which you have to deliver with a ball under great duress in 1.25 seconds.
“I don’t think it’s ridiculous but before we start crowning Harry Kane as the greatest kicker in the world let’s got through the exercise of vetting that. Just like Carli Lloyd wants to be the first female kicker, let’s vet it.
“I will take them both. Let’s go to a training camp in the off-season or I will come to Tottenham and we can kick right there. I would recommend if he’s serious about it then he should get hold of me or somebody who has done it for a long time.
“He’s going to have a good idea because he’s a professional athlete and has skill but I don’t think it’s fair to say that Harry Kane could insert himself as an NFL kicker, there’s more to it and he has to earn it.
“It would be great for the game and the UK. So let me take him and work with him.”
Andersen is a legend of the game and was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in 1982. He went on to play for the Atlanta Falcons, New York Giants, Kansas City Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings before his final season came in 2007.
An NFL kicker is one of the toughest positions in all sport because of the intense pressure and game defining situations they find themselves in.
“I really kind of winged it at the start,” Andersen added. “Between 1982 and 1989 I didn’t really have any structure in place. I didn’t have a mental rehearsal programme, I didn’t have any visualisation exercises I was doing. Basically, I was just winging it on talent and ignorance. In ’89 I hit a performance plateau. I had an okay year but not great.
“I made a conscious effort after that season to be more proactive and to treat it as my profession.