Written by: Ashutosh Pudasaini - 2022002, Grade XI
Posted on: 01 December, 2020
This week, the 20-year-old Norwegian footballer Erling Braut Haaland scored his 16th goal in the UCL, Making him the youngest and the first player ever to score 16 goals in 12 UCL games, Messi had 2 and Ronaldo none after the same number of appearances and just last week he had won the Golden Boy award which is given to promising players below the age of 21. Haaland finished 1st beating Barcelona’s wonder boy Ansu Fati by a narrow margin. Haaland officially has now scored a remarkable 44 goals in just 40 appearances for the two clubs, His previous club RB Salsburg and his current club Borussia Dortmund,
He moved to Dortmund in the January of 2019. With Messi and Ronaldo in the twilight of their stellar careers although they are both still scoring for Barcelona and Juventus respectively could Haaland be the player to take up their scoring mantles? Major clubs such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Liverpool are already looking for a way to sign the 20-year-old Norwegian. His coach praises him a lot. According to him, Haaland is always staying late after training and practicing on his own. According to Haaland ``Individual Training is a very important way of being a sublime player”. Could he surpass Messi or Ronaldo? What's not in doubt is that Haaland is one of the most promising attackers on the world stage and could be set to break many more goalscoring records if he can continue his red-hot form and avoid injury.
