Ronaldinho, Bale, and Neymar, other than their excellent athletic skills, have one factor in widespread: all of them have – kind of explicitly – acknowledged that watching soccer, versus enjoying it themselves, does not convey them a lot pleasure. Due to this fact, outdoors of their very own video games, they hardly have interaction with different leagues and groups – not less than not for pleasure of their free time.
Metropolis celebrity Erling Haaland appears to be the exact opposite. Within the podcast ‘The Relaxation Is Soccer‘, he revealed that this generally even results in disagreements along with his companion Isabel Haugseng Johansen.
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When co-host Alan Shearer requested how usually he follows soccer matches other than his personal performances and whether or not he analyzes them, the 25-year-old Norwegian replied: “Sure, I’m a soccer fan – so I watch all types of soccer.”
He then shared an anecdote from his personal life: “In truth, we had dinner yesterday, and I checked if there have been any video games on.” After discovering out that Manchester United was enjoying in opposition to West Ham that day, he stated to his girlfriend: “Let’s watch it.”
She was – for instance – not too thrilled and primarily stated she was actually bored with soccer: “We watch it on a regular basis.”
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Haaland replied that this was the rationale they had been there – precisely what he meant by that remained unclear. Nonetheless, the sport was turned on. “So, after all, we watched it,” he added within the podcast.
He loves VAR?!
Within the dialog, Haaland additionally revealed one other fascinating factor that units him aside from many different soccer stars: He likes the video assistant referee!
His father had already stated when the controversial system was launched: “VAR can be good for you.” The rationale: Haaland has all the time positioned nice significance on not being within the offside zone.
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“It is all the time about timing, and I am not usually offside,” defined the Norwegian nationwide participant. “When you’re not offside however a bit farther from the defenders, you continue to have an opportunity – so the worst for me is being offside.”
Solely within the sport in opposition to Fulham did his spectacular streak of two years with no single offside name in an away sport come to an finish – there he was referred to as offside once more for the primary time.
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