MIAMI: Erling Haaland says he is now supporting England after they knocked Norway out of the World Cup, PA Media\/dpa reported.<\/p>\n
The Manchester City striker drew a blank for the first time in the tournament as Thomas Tuchel\u2019s side won their quarterfinal 2-1 after extra time in stifling Miami heat.<\/p>\n
Haaland was born in Leeds while his dad Alf played for the Yorkshire club and with a number of City teammates in the England squad, he is rooting for them.<\/p>\n
“Yes, why not? I have some City friends at England.<\/p>\n
“Of course, I want them to do well. I got an England shirt before I got a Norway shirt when I was little,\u201d he told reporters on Sunday (July 12).<\/p>\n
It was Haaland\u2019s former Borussia Dortmund teammate Jude Bellingham who was the star of the show, scoring two goals to turn the tie around.<\/p>\n
“Jude is a good friend. We had two great years at Dortmund. We are good friends and he is such a nice guy.<\/p>\n
“I am not surprised that he is scoring today and performing the way he is. The only thing is that he gets a bit too much criticism sometimes for not scoring enough goals.<\/p>\n
“He is incredible and England are lucky because everyone wants a player like that,\u201d he said. \u2014\u00a0Bernama-PA Media\/dpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI: Erling Haaland says he is now supporting England after they knocked Norway out of the World Cup,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,1208,78339,596,21839,85,21418,124617],"class_list":["post-795865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-england","tag-erling-haaland","tag-football","tag-norway","tag-sports","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}