02/18/2020 - 19:12
- Clarín.com
- sports
It's a machine. Goals, power. Some call him the Messi extra large. Others points out that it is a luck of Iván Drago, protagonist of the movie Rocky 4, in teenager version. It could not be otherwise: he is 19 years old.
He also has a huge body (193 centimeters and 87 kilos), an improper ability for such size and a growing scoring ability that now drives him to fight for the Golden Boot early . Although it has an imprint more similar to that of a classic Zlatan Ibrahimovic center forward (that is, it is also capable of joining the collective game or individual development), analysts are looking for comparisons with soccer players of other characteristics, such as Mbappé. All French speed; The representative of Norway is all powerful. They are different. They are the cracks of the future.
It has a clause of 100 million euros . Your pass belongs to Salzburg, owned by the Red Bull corporation. They want Manchester United, Juventus, Napoli. And they say that the two giants of Spain, Real Madrid and Barcelona also have it in a folder.
This time, in the magical Signal Iduna Park, he scored two goals for his team, Borussia Dortmund, who beat the PSG 2-1, for the first leg of the Champions League round of 16.
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Neymar's goal, after a remarkable move by Mbappé, was overshadowed by the dimension of this blond who became the player who least needed to reach the dozen goals in the history of the Champions League. Barely seven.
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Anyway, before this explosion the world already knew a little of its scoring voracity . In the Under 20 World Cup this year he broke a record: he converted nine goals in Norway's 12-0 against Honduras. The national team did not do well, but this big and skilled left his mark on the history of the competition.
Dad's name is Alf, but it had nothing to do with the character of the famous American series of the late eighties and early nineties. He wasn't an alien like the hairy one in comedy. He was earthling and soccer player. His full name: Alf Inge Haaland. It was one of the difficult figurines of the 1994 World Cup album . Yes, with him as a defender, Norway first entered a World Cup for the first time in its history. The Scandinavian country then became one of the least populated territories to participate in the most popular sport event.
He was not a minor player: in times when football in his country looked like a fantasy under ice, Alf played eleven seasons of the English League: from 1993 to 2003 he participated in the Nottingham Forest - just in the days of the immense departure Brian Clough-, in Leeds United - the club that Marcelo Bielsa leads in the crazy Championship - and in Manchester City in times of little prominence. In the World Cup in the United States, he played two of the three matches in which Norway participated. He received two yellow and missed the third date: that goalless draw against the Republic of Ireland that left the Nordics out of the Cup in a group in which all teams added four points (the others, Italy and Mexico).
Football, in any case, always remained in his veins. He confessed it several times. And it became clear later. And now. He is the representative of the next Messi, they say in Europe . And he is not a represented person: it is his son, Erling Braut Haaland, born in those happy days in Leeds.