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Harry Kane focused on European Champs success with England U21s

It's been a whirlwind 12 months for in-form striker Harry Kane and it doesn't show any sign of stopping over the summer. With a postseason tour of Malaysia and Australia wrapped up, the next stop for the Spurs goal-scoring machine is the under-21 European Championships.

Fresh off a 21-goal English Premier League season -- plus 10 more in other competitions -- and post-season tours to Malaysia and Australia, the 21-year-old marksman now turns his attention to the U21 European Championships in the Czech Republic beginning in just over a fortnight.

His meteoric rise has been well-documented, with the north London local essentially becoming the face of Tottenham Hotspur, and his 2014-15 form has been carried into Spurs' postseason tour, bagging a brace in Malaysia and the only goal in a 1-0 win in Sydney.

"[It's] always nice to keep scoring, and whenever I step onto the pitch that's my job," Kane said following the 1-0 win over A-League outfit Sydney FC, before turning his focus to the U21 tournament.

"I get a week off before I meet up with the 21s -- so I meet up with them a bit later than the others -- so a little bit of a rest but with mind focused [on the tournament]. I think we've got a great chance of winning it so I'm really looking forward to it."

Kane will be lining up alongside plenty of other bright talents, most notably fellow Premier League rising stars James Ward-Prowse, John Stones and Danny Ings, but there's also a strong Tottenham contingent with Eric Dier, Tom Carroll and Alex Pritchard joining Kane in Gareth Southgate's 27-man preliminary squad, and the Premier League Young Player of the Year believes the strong bond the squad has formed will hold them in good stead.

"There's a few lads from Spurs there which will be great for us. Everyone has a great bond and I think that's why we've done so well this year. It's a great team unit and we play well on the pitch together, so [I'm] just looking forward to meet up with all the lads and all the staff again and just getting down to business."

Kane was the main attraction in Sydney this weekend, and he lived up to his billing by scoring the decisive goal which earned him a standing ovation from the Australian Spurs fans upon his 85th-minute substitution.

"It was a good game," he said of the match against Sydney. "I thought both teams created good chances and I think it was a good game to watch from a fan's point of view, so I hope we put on a good show for them in a great atmosphere."

And when quizzed on the standard of opposition he was positive in his assessment.

"They had a few good players. The centre-halves were good, the winger [Bernie Ibini] was quite tricky and had a few skills but it was a great, solid team unit and it made it hard for us to break them down, and that's why it was only a 1-0 scoreline."

Even after the Euros there will be little time for Kane to recharge the batteries, with Spurs' preseason tour of the United States starting less than a month after the final in Prague with a match against the MLS All-Stars in Denver on July 29, and the aims for next season are already at the front of the mind.

"We've got to try and win a trophy and get into that top four," he said. "We've come fifth this year, we had some off games and off weeks and hopefully we can put that right next year, but obviously there's a lot of great teams fighting for the top four places.

"That's always the aim and I think we've got a great chance of it."

And with European football secured with a group stage berth in the Europa League, that's just one of the pieces of silverware Spurs will be targeting.

"I think we tried to have a crack at it this year but it's a tough competition, there's a lot of tough teams and the Champions League teams that drop down as well make it harder to win it," he said.

"But for sure, all the competitions that we're in next year we'll try to win and that's the aim: to try and get a trophy."