Haaland, Haaland, and more Haaland. The Norwegian striker is flooding social media. Photos, stats, videos of his sporting feats: everything is welcomed if it has to do with the charming Erling. This time, a strange story brings us here. Witchcraft, black magic? More like superstition. Or perhaps a habit that became routine and that the golden-haired youngster grew fond of.
What happens is that Erling does something strange at night. If someone were to sneak up to his bed and pull back the sheets to reveal his body, we would see more than a giant from the mists: there would be soccer balls on the mattress. You heard that right.
“Haaland, confess why!“, we’d like to say to him. Well, someone decided to question him about it and revealed the reason behind his curious behavior.
It turns out he has the habit of sleeping with the official match balls from games in which he manages to score a hat-trick (three goals or more).
During his time at Red Bull Salzburg (his club in Austria), the striker used to take these balls to his bed, even accumulating up to five balls at once to sleep with them.
He has described them as his “girlfriends” and treats them as highly valuable personal trophies for his goal-scoring ability. A rather strange habit or superstition. But that’s Haaland. Authenticity guaranteed.