He is one of the brightest youth of the 2020s in football: Erling Haaland
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The young football player, whose full name is Erling Braut Haaland, plays in the forward zone.
Born in Leeds, England, the famous star is originally from Norway and is a player of the Norwegian national team.
The 1.94-meter star has become a favorite player of transfers, especially with his successful performance at the end of the 2010s.
He started his football career in the infrastructure of the Byrne club and made his first professional debut in this club.
The young star, who started football as a winger, later found himself by being drawn to the forward position.
Norwegian football player Erling Haaland was born on 21 July 2000 in England.
The young football player attracted everyone's attention with his goal scorer feature.
He made his debut in 2015 and became a professional football player at the age of 15.
He has been playing for the Norwegian national team since 2019.
After transferring to Molde in 2017, he attracted the attention of the Red Bull Salzburg club with 14 goals in 39 games and made his way to Austria in 2019. Haaland, who showed a tremendous performance by scoring 17 goals in 16 games in Salzburg, later transferred to Borussia Dortmund.
He made history with the 9 goals he scored in the Norway-Honduras match at the 2019 U20 World Cup.
BORUSSIA DORTMUND
On the first day of 2020, he was transferred to the German Bundesliga team Borussia Dortmund for 20 million euros and signed a 4.5-year contract. Dortmund started his career in the first game by scoring 3 goals and making 1 assist, although he was substituted in the 56th minute in the second half, Dortmund won the match 5-3. He became the only player to score 3 goals with Aubameyang in his first match in the Bundesliga. Haland, who was substituted in the second match, scored 2 goals and helped his team to win 5-1. Haland set another record by scoring 5 goals in his first 2 games, another record being reached in just 56 minutes.
He scored goals in Paris Saint-Germain, which they won 2-1 at home in the Round of 16 of the Champions League. Thus, he scored 10 goals in his first 8 matches in the Champions League.
He scored the first goal in Germany after the start of leagues postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dortmund won the match 4-0 against Schalke 04. It was his 10th goal in the German Bundesliga. On 20 July 2020, he scored goals in a 2-0 win, guaranteeing his team's participation in the Champions League next season.
2020-21: Golden Boy
He became the only player to score 14 goals in his first 11 games by scoring 2 goals in the group match against Club Brugge in CL.
He received the Golden Boy award in 2020.
HAALAND NATIONAL TEAM CAREER
Despite having a British passport, Haaland chose Norway and played in all youth age groups.
He scored a hat-trick for Norway U-19 in their 5-4 win against Scotland on 27 March 2018 and secured his team's participation in the 2018 European Under-19 Championship.
On July 22, 2018, he scored his team's only goal in the match against Norway U-19 in the 2018 European Under-19 Championship, where they played against Italy in a 1-1 draw. He set a record in this field with 9 goals scored in a match against Honduras in the group stage of the 2019 Under-20 World Cup. Norway won the match 12-0 but could not get out of the group. Despite not scoring in any other games, Haaland won the Golden Boot, which is awarded to the top scorer.
Impressive performance at the 2019 U-20 World Cup, good form in Red Bull Salzburg and scoring 6 goals in the first 4 games of the 2019-20 Bundesliga (Austria) opened the doors to the A national team: Lars Lagerbäck on 28 August 2019 He was called up to the national team by Norway to play against Malta and Sweden in the 2020 European Football Championship qualifiers. Thus, he made his debut for the Norway national football team with the Malta match on 5 September 2019.
He scored his first international goal on 4 September 2020: he scored his team's only goal in the 2020-21 UEFA Nations B League match, which they lost 2-1 to Austria. 3 days later, they scored 1 more goal in the play-off match of the 2020 European Football Championship played against Serbia, but Norway lost 2-1 and lost its chance to participate in the tournament.
He scored his first hat-trick with the A national team on 11 September 2020 in the UEFA Nations B League match against Romania. Norway won the match 4-0.