Overseas specialist visits Kane monthly

HARRY Kane has recruited the services of Canadian-based sports medicine specialist Dr Alejandro Elorriaga Claraco to cure his long-standing ankle problems.

Tottenham striker Kane has been relatively injury-free for more than two years after a history of niggling problems — particularly with his ankle joints.

Speaking ahead of England’s defeat by Italy, the Three Lions captain revealed he has been working regularly with a Spanish physio, who Kane says has played a key role in conditioning his body for the rigours of professional football.

And it is understood the medical specialist Kane has hired is the highly-respected Elorriaga Claraco, who is Spanish, but located in Ontario, Canada. Elorriaga Claraco, who studied at the University of Oviedo in Spain and McMaster University in Canada, works with Kane outside of Tottenham’s Enfield HQ.

Kane said on Friday that Elorriaga Claraco flies into London to treat him one week in every month.

The practitioner has a long history of working in competitive sports, particularly basketball, judo and athletics.

On Friday, Kane said: ‘I’ve actually found this new physio and we’ve been working together for nearly three years now.

‘He’s been really great for me, we’ve worked for hours and hours over the three years, built up a really good relationship and I feel like he’s really helped me get my body.

‘I’ve seen changes in my body in terms of what my ankles were like before and now after. I’m in a totally different place.

‘So it’s really pleasing, I’ve kept that under the radar. He doesn’t live in the UK so he comes over one week a month and stays with me.’