England captain Harry Kane's hopes of World Cup glory could be over following 2026 semi-final heartache

Former England defender and adjunct manager Gary Neville believes that Harry Kane's accidental to triumph the World Cup earlier the extremity of his vocation has present passed.

Kane has scored six times astatine the 2026 World Cup, but the Bayern Munich striker was incapable to assistance the Three Lions flooded Argentina successful the semi-finals of the competition connected Wednesday.

The England skipper volition beryllium 36 astatine the 2030 World Cup, and Neville is uncovering it hard to ideate the striker representing his state astatine the adjacent competition.

"It's a monolithic disappointment. But is it worse than the 2 finals successful the past 5 tournaments? Some of them got knocked retired of a semi-final successful Russia successful 2018. These players person taken america precise adjacent implicit the past six, 7 oregon 8 years," Neville told Sky Sports News.

"It won't beryllium fashionable this morning, but their achievements person been great. They conscionable haven't been capable to get implicit the enactment and that volition origin them large pain. Being 5 minutes distant from a World Cup last volition unrecorded with them forever.

Kane's chances of World Cup glory could present beryllium over

"The closest I've ever travel to crying connected a shot transportation was successful 2006 erstwhile we got knocked retired of the World Cup quarter-final against Portugal. I was 31 and recognised that I was ne'er going to play successful a World Cup again, and my clip had gone. I tin inactive consciousness the emotion wrong of maine astir that moment. I tin inactive deliberation astir being there.

"Harry Kane astatine 32 volition astir apt recognise that it's his past ever World Cup. For John Stones, Jordan Pickford who are successful their 30s, they volition consciousness highly affectional and truthful disappointed, gutted and dejected this greeting that you can't adjacent ideate it. They volition beryllium sunk successful their rooms, arsenic debased arsenic you tin perchance get.

"If England fans privation immoderate comfort, it's that those England players volition beryllium suffering severely implicit the adjacent mates of days and weeks. It volition ne'er permission them, it ne'er does. But Argentina were the amended team. From the infinitesimal our extremity went in, they were truthful overmuch amended than us."

Kane unsure whether helium volition diagnostic astatine 2030 World Cup

Kane was asked astir his aboriginal instantly aft the semi-final decision and said that it was "too early" to justice whether helium would beryllium progressive successful the 2030 World Cup.

"It's excessively aboriginal to speech astir that. For me, it's astir taking it twelvemonth by twelvemonth and however I feel," Kane told BBC Sport. "The nationalist squad is my pridefulness and joy, it's what I emotion to bash most.

"Four years is simply a agelong mode distant and I'm 33 successful the summer, but arsenic you spot with Leo [Messi], he's inactive performing astatine the highest level [at 39]. I ne'er privation to enactment a bounds connected these things. For now, it's astir processing different pugnacious loss."

Kane could inactive triumph the Golden Boot astatine the 2026 World Cup, with England acceptable to instrumentality connected France in  a third-placed playoff clash connected Saturday.

The striker is England's all-time starring goalscorer with 85, portion helium present sits 2nd successful the all-time quality database (121) down Peter Shilton (125).

Kane has 14 goals successful the World Cup, meanwhile, which has near him joint-fifth connected the all-time list, immoderate 7 goals down Lionel Messi.

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