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As part of the first part of our series on the Stars of the FIFA ™ club World Cup, we are interested in the Norwegian Manchester City phenomenon, Erling Haaland.
Everyone who saw Erling Haaland will not be surprised to learn that the latter could very well have become a very high level handball player or sprinter.
Instead, his incredible athletic qualities are expressed on football fields, and the rhythm to which he chains the goals and stacks records is just as frantic.
Haaland is indeed the player who has reached the 50 -goals in the Premier League, the 40 goals in the UEFA Champions League, and the bar of 100 goals, all competitions combined, for a club playing in one of the five major European championships.
However, the imposing center-forward arrives at the FIFA 2025 ™ club World Cup without ever having played a world test before-at least at the senior level. Because it is during a youth competition from FIFA that the young Erling turned out to be in the eyes of the world, by scoring a trifle of nine goals against Honduras (12-0) during the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
This match remains, however, Haaland’s last appearance in a FIFA competition, and the prospect of seeing him take over where he stopped at what scary each of his future opponents at the Club World Cup. Erling Haaland in short
Age : 24 Job : attacker Nationality : Norwegian Strengths: Speed, power and finish
Notable performance
In addition to a UEFA Champions League and three national titles (including two in the English Premier), Haaland has gleaned numerous individual awards, including the European Golden Soulier, two trophies of best league goalscorer or the player of the UEFA player. He was, moreover, in the male eleven of FIFA 2024.
It is already the top scorer in the history of the national team of Norway, with 40 goals to date in just 41 selections. The previous record – the 33 achievements of Jørgen Juve – had held 90 years.
Haaland also holds the record for the greatest number of goals scored in a Premier League season: 36 (in 35 games) in 2022/23. The N ° 9 of Manchester City had scored six triplets that season, as much as the cumulative total of all the other players in the championship.
In 2023, he entered the story by becoming the first – and to date, the only one – man to win the trophies of player of the year and best young premier league player in the same season.
To know
Gareth Southgate admitted to having approached Haaland because the latter could have represented the Three Lions, because he was born in England at the time when his father, Alf-Inge, defended the colors of Leeds United. Asked about this subject, the attacker said: “Choosing Norway was something natural for me. I am Norwegian and proud to be. »»
Haaland descends from a large family of athletes who goes far beyond his father, in his tenacious mid time who wore the Norway jersey 34 times. His mother, Gry Marita Braut, was several times a champion of Norway in heptathlon in the 1990s, while her grandfather was a famous background runner.
At the age of five, Erling entered the annals of athletics by establishing a new world record for leap without momentum in its age category (1m63). Eighteen years later, his record is still holding.
The Flow Kingz, is that talking to you? While he was playing as a U-17 national team, Haaland recorded a song and a video clip with his teammates Erik Botheim and Erik Tobias. Kygo Jo’s video – A tribute to the trio of rappers to a famous Norwegian DJ – today has more than 13 million views!
Heard…
“He’s the best striker in the world. He has extraordinary physical qualities, he is technical, he feels the blows … his sense of placement is exceptional, he always knows where the ball will arrive and he is rarely offside. All that makes him a player apart. »» Jürgen Klopp, former Liverpool coach
“I don’t see him as a human being, to be honest. In difficult matches, we look at him, just wondering when he’s going to score. »» Phil Foden, his teammate in Manchester City
“His statistics are unreal. He can compete with Ronaldo and Messi in terms of scored goals. It represents a threat at all times, and we are delighted to have it with us. »» Pep Guardiola, his coach at Manchester City
