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Erling Haaland Comes For His Second Home When Norway Takes On England

There's quite the irony waiting in Miami on Saturday. Erling Haaland, the man who just dumped Brazil out of the 2026 World Cup on Sunday, will try to do the same to England — the country that built him into the machine he is now. Start with the birth certificate. Haaland was born in Leeds in July 2000, while his father Alfie Haaland was playing in the Premier League. He could have worn the Three Lions. Fast-forward to the finishing school: four seasons at Manchester City, where English football polished a Norwegian cyborg into the most feared striker on the planet. A record 36 goals in his deb...