and that is something you see in erling haaland. what he has done on the football pitch, that is lovely. but when he is speaking in front of the camera, he is always speaking about he sjust a local boy from bryne. he is proud of where he has come from. the feet is on the ground. so, i am very proud for the whole person, erling, notjust what he does on the football pitch. i try to smile as much as i can because it s a good thing to have fun and to smile and i m an emotional guy and i love to have the people that i love around me, to enjoy the moment with me and to help make me a better person and a player. the future for erling, i think, is focused that he will continue to love football, to train well, and we can see now, which we didn t see before, that some people are great until their late 30s, and so that is what we hope for when it comes to erling. i ve been developing
it was probably the best training they could get. i played at bryne since 2014, and was lucky enough to play with erling before we heard about this guy, fantastic guy, everyone liked him. he had a bit of pace but was quite thin, so he would have got knocked around by defenders quite a lot. he was always smart, knew the right areas to go, and timed his runs. because he did not have strength, he managed still to compete and excel because of his smartness to his play, he could read where to go. he had technique, the technical and the mentality, so the only thing that was missing was a bit of the physical, and we knew him in for five years this will explode. you saw the potential of the guy. i was teacher to erling, he was a lovely, funny guy,
he began to train together with one year older players, a big group of 40 players, and that quality can be spotted from the first kick of the ball in fact. even at a very young age, erling had very good, very high standard of coaching, which is a little bit unusual, because in norway, at that young an age, very often the coaching will be done mostly by parents or on a volunteer basis. erling happened to be part of a group that had a very qualified coach looking after them. for us, it was all about to develop the human being first, and after that, the football. had three rules, beyond time, do your best and behave. in a small place like bryne, the role of the football club
and how big a star he is now, still when he comes to bryne it isjust hi, and just a normal guy. he does seem to have this ability to shut out of the lot of the noise. he does have a very solid grounding and i think some of that comes from your surroundings when you grow up. people rarely get overexcited about anything in bryne. it s a very sort of a farmer s mentality, you know? if things are good today, you still be vigilant things might be bad tomorrow.
deserved and as i said, we are so happy for him. i hope to see erling back in a bryne shirt, but i don t think it s in my time, maybe. he was a special boy. but to be the best player in the world, i m not going to think that s going to be a reality. but he has a dream and working hard every day, so i am just proud to see what he do on the pitch every week. i will never be proud of - achievements from a footballer or erling, because i don t see that, i am very proud of howl behaved he represent . our region and our town in a very good way. and that makes me proud, not if he is first or run up l in the league.