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Rooney: Spurs striker Kane inspired by Lewandowski

Former England captain Wayne Rooney is backing Tottenham striker Harry Kane to carry on scoring for the Three Lions.

Rooney predicts that the striker will surpass an incredible 70 come his international retirement, likening his single-mindedness in front of goal to Ronaldo.

"Knowing Harry, it's not something that will go to his head," Rooney said. "He will kick on and, in fact, I believe that when he stops playing he will leave the England record in a place where it will be very difficult for someone else to break it.

"He wants to be like Poland's Robert Lewandowski, a goal machine who is still at the very top in his mid-thirties, and he has it in him to make that happen. I think Harry will finish with an England goals total well into the 70s.

"The only other person I've seen like that is Cristiano Ronaldo and both he and Harry have what you would call a good kind of selfishness, an obsession with goals that is in-built. It is important to their success."

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