Erling Haaland Biography

 Erling Braut Haaland is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for the German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Norwegian national team. A prolific scorer, Haaland is known for his pace, athleticism, and ability to complete the game. He is considered one of the nicest strikers in football.

Born: July 21, 2000 (age 21), Leeds, United Kingdom

Nationality: Norwegian

Weight: 88 kg

Current groups: Borussia Dortmund (No.9 / Striker), MORE DETAILS

Parents: Alf-Inge Holland, Marita Brat Games

Erling Braut Haaland (born in Holland [ˈhôlɑn]; born July 21, 2000) is a Norwegian experienced footballer who plays as a striker for the German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Norwegian national team. A prolific scorer, Haaland is known for his pace, athleticism, and ability to complete the game. He is considered one of the best strikers in football.

Holland started his career at his hometown club Brin in 2016 and moved to Molde for the next 12 months; he spent two seasons at the club before signing with the Austrian team Red Bull Salzburg in January 2019. At Salzburg, he won the Austrian Bundesliga titles and one Austrian Cup. Holland became the first teenager to score in five consecutive UEFA Champions League matches at some point in the 2019/20 season. In December 2019, he completed a transfer to Borussia Dortmund for a fee that, as already mentioned, amounted to about 20 million euros. Haaland also received the 2020 Golden Boy Award.[8] In the 2020-21 season, he became an indispensable player on the Dortmund DFB-Pokal team, received the Bundesliga Player of the Season award, and finished as the top scorer in the Champions League.

Haaland has represented Norway at various youth competitions. At the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Haaland received the Golden Boot tournament, scoring 9 goals in one match. He made his international debut in September 2019.

Early Life

Holland was born on July 21, 2000, in Leeds, England, as his father Alf-Inge Holand was playing for Leeds United in the Premier League at the time. In 2004, at the age of 3, he moved to Brin, his parents' homeland in Norway. Along with gambling on football from an early age, Haaland was involved in many other sports as a child, such as handball, golf, and athletics. In addition, it is reported that he set a world record in his age category in the long jump when he turned 5 years old, with a registered distance of one. Sixty-three meters in 2006.

Club Career

Bryne

Haaland started his career at the Academy of his hometown club "Bryne" at the age of 5. During the 2015/16 season, he played for the Bryne reserve team, hitting and scoring eighteen goals in fourteen matches. In May 2016, Gaute Larsen moved to Lighthouse when Brin's supervisor and youth coach Berntsen was appointed head coach. After working closely with Haaland in other teenage groups, the leader, meanwhile, gave the teenager his first start, 3 months before his sixteenth birthday. His debut was the 2nd tier 1. Division I is formed against Ranheim on the 12th. May 2016.

Since Berntsen had to start from the position of winger, after several matches he put Haaland in his preferred imperative role of striker. Despite not scoring in his breakthrough season at Brin, Haaland was granted a trial contract with German Hoffenheim in 1899 before moving to Molde sooner or later to play under Ole Gunnar Sulscher. Haaland played sixteen matches for Brin in the overall standings.

Molde

On February 1, 2017, Molde announced the signing of a contract with sixteen-year-old Haaland. He made his debut for the club on April 26 in a Norwegian Cup match against Volda TI, scoring his debut goal with a score of 3:2. Haaland's debut in the Elitserien took place on June 4, when he came on as a substitute in the 71st minute in a match against Sarpsborg 08. After receiving a yellow card just over a minute into the game, Haaland scored the winning goal for Molde in the 77th minute, which was his first league goal. His 2nd strike of the season came on September 17, when he scored the decisive goal against FC Viking with a score of 3:2. After this match, Holland received an insult from teammate Bjorn Bergmann Sigurdarson for celebrating his goal closer to the Viking fans. Haaland finished his first season at Molde, scoring four goals in twenty matches.

On July 1, 2018, Haaland scored four goals in the first 21 minutes of the confrontation with Brann, ensuring his team a 4-0 victory over the unbeaten league leaders at that time. After the match, Molde head coach Ole Gunnar Sulscher compared Haaland's style of play with Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku and said that the club rejected several applications for the striker because of the distinctive golf equipment. In the next match a week later, Haaland scored his own goal, scoring a double in the match against Volerenga with a score of 5:1. On July 26, he scored his first goal in the confrontation with UEFA, replacing a penalty in Molde's victory in the Europa League qualification with a score of 3:0 in the confrontation from "Lachi". Due to an ankle sprain, Haaland did not participate in the last 3 Molde championship matches of the season. For his performances at the 2018 Eliteserien, Haaland received the Eliteserien Breakthrough of the Year Award. He finished the 2018 season as Molde's top scorer, scoring 16 goals in thirty matches in all competitions.

Red Bull Salzburg

On August 19, 2018, Austrian Bundesliga champion Red Bull Salzburg announced that Haaland could become part of the club from January 1, 2019, by signing a five-year agreement. Phil Hay from Athletic can later say that before his transfer to Salzburg, Holland additionally became the object of an offer from his father's former club Leeds United. He made his debut for the club on February 17 in the 2018/19 Austrian Cup zonal final against Wiener Neustadter, and on May 12 scored his first goal in a 2-1 Austrian Bundesliga match over LASK.[citation needed] On July 19, he scored his first hat-trick for the club in the winning match of the Austrian Cup with a score of 7:1 against Parndorf, and on August 10 he scored his first hat-trick in the championship, scoring three goals in a match against Wolfsberger with a score of 5:2. On September 14, he scored his third hat-trick for Salzburg, winning with a score of 7:2 over Hartberg.; This was the 6th consecutive league goal in which Haaland scored, with eleven General Dreams goals during that time. Three days later, Haaland made his UEFA Champions League debut against Genk, where he scored 3 goals in the first 1/2 of the final with a score of 6:2, which was his fourth typical hat-trick for Salzburg.

In the next two matches of the Champions League season, Haaland scored a goal against Liverpool at Anfield and two similar goals against Napoli, becoming the second young player after Karim Benzema in the history of the opponent to score in each of his first three matches. His six wishes were additionally the maximum scored by any participant in their first three matches in the Champions League. After replacing the penalty in the return match of Salzburg against Napoli, Haaland became the first teenager to score in his first 4 matches in the competition, and the best fourth player of any age to achieve this result, after Ze Carlos, Alessandro Del Piero, and Diego Costa. He then scored all 3 goals in Salbtsurg's 3-0 win over Wolfsberger on November 10, recording his 5th hat–trick of the season and his 2nd against Wolfsberg.

On November 27, Haaland came off the bench to score any other goal against Genk, becoming a member of the team of Del Piero, Sergei Rebrov, Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Robert Lewandowski, because the simplest players scored in the first five matches of the organizational level of the Champions League, and turned into the main teenager who scored in 5 consecutive matches within the competition. However, he may not get into the net in the final group match of "Salzburg" against "Liverpool"., because his team lost 2-0 and was removed from the opponent. This is, Apparently, Haaland's last rest with the club; he left Salzburg after recording 29 wishes, with 28 of them coming in just 22 matches played in the 2019-20 season.

Personal Life

Haaland - The son of former Norwegian defender of Nottingham Forest, Leeds United, and Manchester City, Alpha-Inge Holand, and former women's heptathlete Gray Marita Braut. His cousin Jonathan Braut Brunes plays as a striker for Lillestrem. Brunes became the youngest participant ever to play for Brin in a match against KFUM Oslo on May 16, 2016, at the age of 15 years, 9 months, and 9 days, beating the previous record set by Haaland 4 days earlier. His younger cousin Albert Tjoland is also a football player, having registered more than sixty dreams in less than 40 video games, spent with the Molde youth team. In February 2017, in an interview with the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, Haaland said that "His dream is to win the Premier League with Leeds." On August 30, 2016, the music video for "Kygo Jo" was uploaded to YouTube via Flow Kingz, a set consisting of Haaland. and his Norwegian U-18 teammates Erik Botheim and Erik Tobias Sandberg. By 2020, the number of videos exceeded eight.2 million views and 250 thousand likes.

Haaland stated that he likes to meditate. After scoring his second goal in Dortmund's first Champions League match in form against Paris Saint-Germain in February 2020, he celebrated by mimicking the "zen" pose in connection with his meditation exercise. However, Dortmund would immediately lose and be eliminated after the second match, and PSG scorer Neymar imitated the celebration of Hyland's birthday after his goal, and most of the French national team players joined in imitating the "zen" pose of their celebration after the realization of a healthy one. According to reports, this turned into an attack on Haaland because of an alleged social media post he made before the start of the competition, in which he called the host venue Paris "his city." Despite the fact that several resources suggested that Haaland's publications were fake, he nevertheless said that he was not bothered by PSG celebrations now, noting: "I guess they helped me a lot to spread meditation around the world and show the whole world that meditation is an important "so I'm grateful".