Norway beat Brazil 2-1 in the Round of 16 at the 2026 World Cup and, for the first time in its history, reached the quarterfinals. Haaland scored both goals. But almost no one talked about that.
What broke the internet happened minutes later, in the MetLife Stadium locker room: Princess Ingrid Alexandra and her brother Sverre Magnus went down to congratulate the team, and Haaland received them still shirtless, as if he had just woken up in the middle of glory. The hug was caught on camera, the Royal House of Norway posted it itself, and that’s when the happy chaos began: millions of views and comments asking whether the striker would be “the next king” of Norway.
Meanwhile, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo Nazário calmly posed with the princes, as if this happened every day. In Norway, after this, it just might.
