From his diet to his sleep patterns to his post-match massage routine, Haaland’s daily regimen is meticulously planned and is one of the main reasons why he has scored 52 goals. impressive goals this season in 53 matches, helping Man City win a historic treble.”

Haaland has undergone a growth spurt in recent years, fueled by his relentless eating habits. The striker said he consumes about 6,000 calories a day (an adult man should consume about 2,500 calories) and eating is a huge part of his life.

Teammate on the Norwegian team, Josh King, said he had never seen anyone consume as much food as Haaland, commenting: “He eats like a bear\”. And there is something very interesting about this striker’s eating habits. While vegetarian diets have become popular among modern footballers, Haaland is a true fan of meat.

That may have something to do with the fact that he grew up in a rural community in Bryne, Norway, where he helped his grandfather, who grew potatoes and raised pigs. But the type of meat he ate was unusual. In addition to liking beef, Haaland also eats beef heart and liver. Even Dwayne Johnson, also known as The Rock, was surprised to learn about Haaland’s diet.

The striker explained his eating habits in the documentary “Erling Haaland: The Big Decision\”. “Eating the highest quality and most local food possible is the most important thing,” he said. “People say meat is unhealthy, but which meat? The meat you get at McDonald’s, or the grass-fed beef right there?\”

Haaland also often eats spaghetti, a former favorite of football players but has become less popular recently. His father, Alfie, cooked lasagne for him the day before every home match, which helped him score three consecutive goals in matches against Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest. And he regularly visits Italian restaurants in Manchester, with one opening just for him so he can eat alone, away from the public eye.

While quite a few of City’s players enjoy the nightlife – Guardiola said his team “drank all the alcohol in Manchester\” after winning the title – Haaland is not known for his drinking lots of alcohol.

\”He is the most professional I have ever seen\”, Jack Grealish said about the Norwegian striker. “His mindset is something you won’t see again. He does everything. Recovery; going to the gym; 10 hours of treatment a day; ice baths; diet. That’s why Why is he like that? But I swear, I can’t do that!\”

\”We had a great friendship, but he would point at me after every game and say: ‘Hey, don’t go out tonight.’ I just told him to shut up and go away. Soak your feet in a stone bath\”.

However, Haaland still cares about what he drinks. He insisted on drinking filtered water and drinking cabbage milk at the same time, calling it “miracle medicine\”.”},

In addition to being serious about his diet, Haaland is also passionate about getting a good night’s sleep, calling it “perhaps the most important thing in life\”. Cristiano Ronaldo, for example, has paid a lot of attention to sleep patterns, talking about the benefits of taking regular naps. Haaland prefers a more traditional method, preferring to go to bed at 10:30 p.m. and turn off technology devices before falling asleep. But he also uses modern technology to help him get the quality sleep he needs.

He wears orange, blue-light-blocking glasses before going to sleep, and wears an Oura ring on his finger to measure his sleep quality and heart rate.”},”Massage late at night to avoid trauma love”

Sleep and diet are vital for any professional footballer, but injuries can halt the most promising seasons and even destroy a career. Haaland had a tumultuous injury history before arriving at Man City, missing 16 matches for Borussia Dortmund last season, mainly because of muscle injuries.

However, he and the club have tried to keep him healthy and injury-free. Guardiola has spoken publicly about the club’s concerns about his injury history and credited his medical team and physiotherapy staff for helping him stay fit.

Haaland has only missed three matches this season, and recovered quickly after each setback. The club asked sports physiotherapist Mario Pafundi to accompany him on the Norway national team tour to ensure he continued with the same routine.

Haaland also takes initiative to avoid injury. After the Champions League quarter-final first leg win over Bayern Munich, he went straight to the training ground – located opposite the Etihad Stadium – for an hour-long massage, “Generous both on and off the field”,

Although Haaland has been compared to Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Ronaldo in some aspects, and there is no denying his confident personality, he does not show signs of selfishness like other players and does not disappoint their clubs. affected.

In the recent win over Leeds, when Man City was awarded a penalty, Haaland did not take advantage of the opportunity to score another goal, but gave the ball to Ilkay Gundogan for the midfielder to complete his hat-trick.

Gundogan missed the penalty and Guardiola was angry with Haaland for not taking the penalty himself, but he also praised the striker for his actions. “It shows that Erling is very kind and generous\” he said.

Guardiola also spoke about his surprise at seeing Haaland happy when his team-mate scored: “It’s hard to find a striker with those kind of numbers and normally you think, ‘Oh, it’s just me. me, me and me’, but he’s the complete opposite. That’s what surprised me the most about Erling since he arrived.\”

Haaland also showed his generosity when he left Borussia Dortmund last year, giving each player in the squad a Rolex watch worth around £5,000.

In his first post-match interviews at Dortmund, Haaland may have seemed arrogant, giving very brief, sometimes one-word answers in post-match interviews. He still doesn’t interact too much with the press, but when he does, he comes off as cute, funny, and natural. Who can forget his interview on Sky Sports after scoring against West Ham, when he mentioned a chance he missed earlier?

\”It’s a bit sh* t but that’s the way it goes\”, he said. When he was admonished for being obscene by the interviewer, his natural instinct was to respond “Oh sorry, sh*t , sorry\” and laugh.

He is friendly with his teammates, establishing a strong relationship with John Stones as well as Grealish. He became a trend when he casually mocked the Stones’ pronunciation of “The Louvre\” during a recent commercial shoot, while earlier this year he had an argument getting animated with the defender and Rodri in the gym about whether they would want to run away from a crocodile or a hippo.

He hasn’t given many interviews in his first season, but at City’s press day before the Champions League final, he was friendly with reporters, answering questions from a group of 20 people in a friendly manner. easy. And he knows how to keep the audience engaged, making many journalists laugh out loud.

But he was the one who did the real talking on the field, leaving fans with eye-popping moments that left onlookers gasping and opponents shocked. Behind the ruthless finishing and athletic talent lies a real hunger for self-improvement, a desire to be not just the best player in the world, but the best of all time. A craving stronger than his appetite for beef heart and liver.