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The Premier League’s latest big signing is a 6ft 4in “Viking” who broke a long jump world record when he was just five years old.
Erling Braut Haaland – a Norwegian who was born in Leeds – is just 21 but has talent so big that Manchester City have agreed to buy him for £51million and pay him £385,000 a week. Some of his millions of social media followers in Germany nicknamed him The Terminator because of his goalscoring feats. And despite the healthy diet expected of footballers, he admits that he loves kebabs and pizza.
Young Erling leapt 1.63m in January 2006 to claim his place in history for the longest standing long jump. Now, he leaves the opposition standing.
In a 2020 game for his current club Borussia Dortmund, a TV station clocked him sprinting 60m in just 6.64 seconds, a time which would have put him in the World Championship athletics indoor final in 2018. It is a staggering feat, as the world record by US athlete Christian Coleman stands at 6.34 seconds.
But his athletic prowess is in the genes; Haaland comes from a great sporting family. His mum Gry Marita used to be national champion in heptathlon in Norway. His dad Alf-Inge Haaland played for Nottingham Forest, Leeds United and Man City, where he had a