Captain has good memories of the old Red Star Stadium, which he lists among his most intimidating away grounds
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arry Kane has played before at the Red Star Stadium in Belgrade. It was with his former club Tottenham in 2019 and it is for good reason that the England captain lists it among his top three most intimidating away venues. The others, for the record, are Marseille’s Vélodrome and Galatasaray’s Rams Park.
Kane went to the former with Spurs in 2022 and it did not matter that the Virage Nord was closed after incidents involving the Marseille support. He sampled the ear-splitting whistles of the latter with his current club, Bayern Munich, in 2023. Red Star’s ground is called the Rajko Mitic Stadium these days but the basic malevolence has not changed.
“It’s just the walk from the changing room to the pitch – it feels like a mile long,” Kane said. “There’s a lot of fans, you hear a lot of noise, a lot of banging. So, yeah, it was pretty hostile.”
