The 31-year-old striker himself says he is pleased with his statue, which on Monday got its place in the London district Waltham Forest. It was there Kane grew up and began his career as a football player.
"A really proud moment for me", Kane writes in a post on X.
However, not everyone is equally enthusiastic. Among users on social media, the statue is called, among other things, "nightmare-like" and accused of "not looking like him at all", reports The Guardian.
Nor is art critic Estelle Lovatt particularly impressed by the artwork in question.
From a historical perspective, a public statue was meant to immortalize, display, and boast about the person's skills and achievements. If it doesn't resemble the person, it becomes quite difficult to relate to it, she says to Sky News and adds that the statue "lacks all forms of artistic creativity".
This is not the first time a sculpture of a football player attracts attention. In 2017, the sketch program "Saturday Night Live" did a segment on a much-talked-about bronze statue of Cristiano Ronaldo that had recently been inaugurated at Madeira's airport. The sculpture was later replaced.
Later the same year, a 3.6-meter-high Maradona statue was unveiled in Indian Calcutta. On the net, many thought the likeness resembled less the Argentine icon and more the character Bobby Ewing from "Dallas", England's former national team captain Roy Hodgson, or simply "someone's grandmother".
