Erling Haaland has revealed his childhood heroes – Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Mario Balotelli – and why his favourite food is one he can never eat.
The Manchester City’s greatest goal scorerAlthough he was the most prominent name in the Premier League, if not Europe, this season, little is known about him.
Haaland isn’t a huge fan of the media from his early career with Salzburg and Borussia Dortmund, giving some hilariously awkward interviews, but Gary Neville managed to get on his good side.
With City has scored 20 goals and provided three assists in 13 games.This season, the Norwegian is clearly on track to be a star in the game’s future. But he revealed some interesting facts regarding his idols.
Asked by Neville about his favourite player growing up, he said: “Except my father maybe Zlatan Ibrahimovic,” but clips from his childhood show another hero.
A Man City fan from when his dad, Alf-Inge, played for the club between 2000 and 2003, there’s plenty of photos of Haaland junior in sky blue.
A training clip that he had taken when he was eleven with a number 45 on the back was one of the ones that was not visible.
Neville asked what player he would choose to take a penalty with his life on the line, and Haaland said: “I’d probably have to either say myself as I trust myself a lot.
“If not there is some good ones, I think I have to say maybe Mario Balotelli because he was maybe the best I’ve ever seen as a penalty taker.
“You remember all the ones he did? Crazy. He was actually a really good one, so maybe me or him.”
It was recently revealed in a documentary about Haaland’s Borussia Dortmund departure that He has a somewhat scary diet.
In order to keep himself in such good shape, the striker admits he eats both cow’s heart and liver, but both are well short of his favourite meal.
“My favourite meal is things we can never eat, things we only eat once in an occasion,” he said.
“I love kebab or kebab pizza, I absolutely love it, it’s one of the best things I have to say but I can never eat it.
“Sometimes I sit home like ‘it would be so good’ then I go to the fridge and make something else, that’s my life.
“I like wine a lot I had to say I cannot lie,” the two together? “Na, na, na, this is not a good mix.”
