Erling Haaland Biography
Erling Braut Haaland is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, he is known for his athleticism, speed and finishing.
Erling Haaland Age
Haaland was born on 21st July, 2000 in Leeds, England, as his father Alfie Haaland was playing for Leeds United in the Premier League at the time. In 2004, at the age of three, he moved to Bryne, his parents’ hometown in Norway.
Along with playing football from an early age, Haaland partook in various other sports as a child, including handball, golf, and track and field. He also reportedly achieved a world record in his age category for the standing long jump when he was five, with a recorded distance of 1.63 metres in 2006.
Erling Haaland Height
He stand at a height of 1.94 metres tall.
Erling Haaland Family/Parents/Siblings
Haaland is the son of the Norwegian former Nottingham Forest, Leeds United and Manchester City defender Alfie Haaland, and former women’s heptathlon athlete Gry Marita Braut. His cousin Jonatan Braut Brunes is also a professional footballer. Brunes became the youngest player ever to feature for Bryne in a game against KFUM Oslo on 16 May 2016 at the age of 15 years, 9 months, 9 days, beating the previous record set by Haaland four days earlier. His younger cousin Albert Tjåland is also a footballer, registering over sixty goals in under forty games played with Molde’s youth team. In February 2017, in an interview with Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, Haaland stated that “The dream is to win the Premier League with Leeds.” On 30 August 2016, the music video “Kygo Jo” was uploaded to YouTube by Flow Kingz, a group consisting of Haaland and his Norway U-18 teammates Erik Botheim and Erik Tobias Sandberg. By 2020, the video had surpassed 8.2 million views and 250 thousand likes.
Erling Haaland Career
Erling Haaland Molde
On 1 February 2017, Molde announced the signing of 16-year-old Haaland. He made his debut for the club on 26 April in a Norwegian Cup match against Volda TI, scoring on his debut in a 3–2 win.
Erling Haaland Red Bull Salzburg
On 19 August 2018, Austrian Bundesliga champions Red Bull Salzburg announced that Haaland would join the club on 1 January 2019, signing a five-year contract. The Athletic’s Phil Hay would later reveal that prior to his move to Salzburg, Haaland was also subject of an offer from his father’s former club Leeds United.
Erling Haaland Borussia Dortmund
Despite being a reported target of Manchester United and Juventus, Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund confirmed the signing of Haaland on 29 December 2019, three days before the winter transfer window opened, for a fee reported to be in the region of €20 million, signing a four-and-a-half-year contract.
Erling Haaland Manchester City
On 10 May 2022, Premier League club Manchester City announced they had reached a deal to sign Haaland after activating his €60 million (£51.2 million) release clause. The deal was formalised on 13 June, with City announcing that Haaland would be joining the club on 1 July on a five-year contract.
He made his competitive debut on 30 July, playing the whole 90 minutes in a 3–1 defeat to Liverpool in the 2022 FA Community Shield. On 7 August, he scored two goals on his Premier League debut in a 2–0 away victory against West Ham United. On 27 August, Haaland scored his first Premier League hat-trick in a 4–2 victory against Crystal Palace, and scored his second, a perfect hat-trick, four days later with a treble in a 6–0 defeat of Nottingham Forest, making him the quickest individual in Premier League history to reach two hat-tricks, beating the previous record by 14 matches. On 6 September, he made his Champions League debut for the club, scoring two goals against Sevilla and becoming the first player to score 25 goals in 20 Champions League appearances.
Erling Haaland Youth International career
Haaland plays for Norway, and has represented them at various age groups. On 27 March 2018, while with the Norway under-19 side, Haaland scored a hat-trick against Scotland in a 5–4 victory, helping his country secure qualification to the 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. On 22 July 2018, Haaland scored a penalty against Italy in a 1–1 draw during the tournament finals. On 30 May 2019, Haaland scored nine goals in the Norway under-20 team’s 12–0 win against Honduras at the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Lublin, Poland. This was Norway’s biggest ever win at U-20 level, as well as Honduras’ heaviest ever defeat. Haaland also set a new U-20 World Cup record for most goals scored by a single player in a match, with the result additionally being the biggest win by any team in the history of the tournament. Despite the Norwegians being eliminated in the group stage, and Haaland not scoring in any other matches at the tournament, he still won the Golden Boot as the competition’s top scorer.
Erling Haaland Senior International career
Haaland was named by manager Lars Lagerbäck to the Norway senior team squad on 28 August 2019, to face Malta and Sweden in UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying matches; he made his senior national team debut on 5 September 2019 against Malta. On 4 September 2020, Haaland scored his first senior international goal for Norway in a 1–2 loss against Austria in the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League B. Three days later, he scored a brace in a 5–1 victory against Northern Ireland. On 11 October, Haaland scored his first international hat-trick in Norway’s 4–0 win over Romania in a Nations League B match, bringing his tally for the senior team to six goals in six matches played.
During the September 2021 international break, Haaland scored five goals in three World Cup qualification matches, including a second hat-trick for Norway in a 5–1 victory against Gibraltar.
Erling Haaland Style Of Play
A prolific goalscorer, and regarded as one of the best players in the world, Haaland has all the attributes of a complete centre-forward. He uses his sizeable frame to hold play up effectively and involve others. He has the pace and clever movement to run in behind; he can dribble and create; and he can finish with both feet and his head. He usually comes deep to collect the ball to help his team build play, often looking to spread the ball wide for a teammate, before turning and sprinting towards goal. He sometimes comes too deep for the defenders to follow him, as such he has the awareness to turn on the ball and create from a forward-facing position. In the penalty area, he makes small, sharp movements to spot an opportunity for a teammate to attempt to find him in space, and can change the line on which he is running and accelerate into that space, making him extremely difficult for defenders to read.
He uses his body well when playing with his back to goal, protecting the ball effectively as he tries to bring it under control. Given he can use his strength to secure possession when under pressure, he is also effective in providing his team’s defenders with some respite following a clearance. Haaland’s creativity is most apparent when he drifts into the left inside channel. His primary aim is always to get a shot off, but he also has the vision and skill to pick out a delayed run from midfield in the centre. His ability to carry the ball at pace also helps create for others, especially on the counter-attack.
Haaland idolizes Zlatan Ibrahimović and Cristiano Ronaldo, but also cites Michu, Jamie Vardy, Sergio Agüero and Robin van Persie as inspirations, and credits Virgil van Dijk and Sergio Ramos as two of the toughest defenders he has played against.
Erling Haaland Honours
Red Bull Salzburg
Austrian Bundesliga: 2018–19, 2019–20
Austrian Cup: 2018–19
Borussia Dortmund
DFB-Pokal: 2020–21
Norway U17
Syrenka Cup: 2016
Individual
Eliteserien Breakthrough of the Year: 2018
Austrian Footballer of the Year: 2019
Austrian Bundesliga Player of the Season: 2019–20
FIFA U-20 World Cup Golden Boot: 2019
UEFA Champions League Breakthrough XI: 2019
Bundesliga Player of the Season: 2020–21
Bundesliga Player of the Month: January 2020, November 2020, April 2021, August 2021
Bundesliga Rookie of the Month: January 2020, February 2020
Bundesliga Goal of the Month: September 2021
Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2020–21, 2021–22
ESM Team of the Year: 2019–20
IFFHS Men’s World Youth (U20) Team: 2020
Golden Boy: 2020
Gullballen: 2020
Kniksen’s honour award: 2020
Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year: 2020
UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season: 2020–21
UEFA Champions League Forward of the Season: 2020–21
UEFA Champions League top goalscorer: 2020–21
UEFA Nations League top scorer: 2020–21
FIFA FIFPro World11: 2021
Erling Haaland Salary
Manchester City announced that Erling Haaland signed a five-year deal with the club starting on July 1, 2022, but didn’t reveal his salary. But according to Fabrizio Romano, Haaland will make around £375,000 ($449k) per week, or £1.5m ($1.8m) per month.
Erling Haaland Networth
The Norwegian prodigy Erling Haaland tops the table for footballers with a transfer valuation of more than €80M: €155M compared to €120M at the end of October (+€35M).
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