Haaland’s secret world record

Erling Braut Haaland – do you know the name now?
You probably didn’t know it a year ago, but now the Norwegian with a nose for goals is one of the hottest names in international top football.
As a 19-year-old, he has hit a goal ratio that smells of world class … and makes many think that football still has mega stars the day Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo finish off their careers.
Can Erling Haaland as a goal machine become such a mega star – can he jump so high that he is the one we all sit and sigh about in pure football enthusiasm for the next 10 years?
At least the Norwegian can make a long jump.
In fact, so far that he has a somewhat ‘secret’ world record.
The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet has dug out that Erling Haaland has… and hold on… a world record in ‘standing long jump for 5-year-olds’…
That discipline usually takes place in the gymnastics classes at school, but the record is actually good enough.
His father, Alf-Inge Haaland, says:
‘It was just before Erling started playing football. We took him to some athletics competitions so he could try some different things’ say the father.
So it went so well that on the official list, where children from 47 countries appear in various athletics disciplines, Erling Haaland still holds the world record for 5-year-olds, today 14 years later.
It is not really matter a ‘for fun list’, because for example the running lightning Usain Bolt also appears with world records in 200 meters running when he was 15 to 18 years old.
Once upon a time, standing long jump was actually an Olympic discipline. Both in the ancient Olympic Games in ancient Greece, you jumped far without running, and also did so in the modern Olympics from 1900 to 1912 – but it has not been an Olympic discipline for over 100 years, so it is probably good that Erling Haaland chose football.
The poacher, who switched from Salzburg to Dortmund this winter, substituted to make his debut and scored a hat trick in just 23 minutes, has good genes for sports.
Erling’s father Alf-Inge was himself a professional footballer playing for, among others, Manchester City and on the national team and the mother Gry Marita is former Norwegian champion in heptathlon, the most versatile athletics discipline.
Erling himself also played handball, practiced athletics and cross country skiing until he turned 14 and turned to football.
Even though we at Technica are football mad, trying different sports can be super-healthy – as Erling Haaland has done.
Since Erling Haaland turned 19 in the summer of 2019, he has not stopped scoring.
For example, the 194-cm striker became the first teenager to ever score 10 goals in a Champions League season, and he is the first Borussia Dortmund player ever to score in his Dortmund debut in the Bundesliga, the German Cup and Champions League.

23 June, 2023

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