When i was young, i wanted to become the best in the world. Dreams do come true. My name is andreas vollsund. Im mayor of time kommune. Bryne is the big city in this community. Bryne is a small place, but a warm place, a place where everyone knows each other. The people in bryne, in time kommune, in the jaeren, as we call it here, is, yeah, friendly people, but working, hard working people. Bryne is the biggest place in an area called jaeren, which is a very agriculture heavy place, theres a lot of farms. Right outside of the city, you can see green grass everywhere, so were very proud that we have so many good, hard working farmers. We can get the best food on the table and be as strong as erling only 12,000 lives here. People quite friendly, but quiet. We wont use ten words i or if one word is sufficient, or even a meaningful pause. You can see that in erling. He doesnt speak long sentences, and thats normal here. Growing up in bryne is very much about football. Its basically been the one thing that this town is all about. The Football Team bryne were in the top divisionl for a very long time, they finished second twice in the 805, they won the cup in 1987. Its always been a place that people around norway will have known about. This area is actually the place in norway with the least snow, so the best teams in the country used to come here in march to play on grass. This was before we got Artificial Grass of course. Erling was born in leeds, came with his family in bryne in 2004, started to play in a team when he was five or six years old. He was very small, but when he was about 12, 13, he grew very fast. The thing about Erling Haaland is i think you have to start with the parents, i with the genetics. Because we talk about his father a lot, of course, i alfie haaland, but we dont talk enough about erling i haalands mother, who was, at youth level, at one point, | the National Champion in heptathlon. His grandmothers brother on the mothers side is gabriel hoyland, who is the record Appearance Holder of bryne Football Club. So he was born into a real sporting family with just l incredible pedigree on all sides. Hes a really important guy in my life, hes my father and hes also a really good friend of me. Wejoke a lot, we have a lot of fun. Ive got a Good Relationship with him and he supports me a lot, and a really important guy in my life. My name is alf ingve berntsen. Ive been Coaching Football for many, many years, and some of the years, i was coaching erling, and i think thats why youre here the first time i coached erling, he wasjust eight years old. He began to train together with one year older boys, in a big group of 40 players. A child like erling, when youre that quality, youre spotted from the first kick on 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, l the coaching will be done almost by parents on a volunteer basis. Erling happened to be part of a year who 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. We had three rules be on time, do your best, and behave. In a small place like bryne,i the role of the Football Club is to keep people active, to be a social place for the kids. Its not necessarily. Like a meat grinder, to get the most talented footballer out there. So the emphasis is on things like how to behave and be i a good teammate. This is the challenge of a club like bryne is that its a very. Small place, so the Football Club isnt just for the kids. Who are enormously talented and are going somewhere, i its also just for the kidsj who want to stay active. The challenge for the coaches is always how can you includej everyone while also challenging The Very Best and not separate i them from their mates . Erling was gentle, nice, funny, he always scored a lot, he smiled a lot, he trained a lot, but he was one of the 40, so he was treated the same way as the other 40. He and his friends played three, four, five hours every saturday, every sunday. They get a lot of time playing, they kept the tempo high, it was important for them to win, so even though they werent thinking that this is training, i think it was probably the best training they could get. I played at bryne since 2014, i was lucky enough to play with erling before he went up to the sky. Fantastic guy, everyone liked him. He had a bit of pace, i but he was quite thin, and so he would have gottenl knocked around by defenders quite a lot he was always smart. He knew the right areas to go, he timed his runs. Because he didnt have his strength, he managed still to compete and succeed 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 physics, and we knew, in four, five years, this will explode. You saw the potential of the guy. I was teacher to erling. He was a lovely, funny guy, and he told me, i oh, no, school is noti so important, no, no, hes going to be i a Football Player. Hes not shy in the locker room, he cracksjokes and he puts himself out there, basically. You probably saw that song or rap video of him on youtube there was a lot of commotions and jokes about that. Singing. But for me, its about having fun. Cos if im having fun, i want to do more of it, exactly how i was with football, when i went, played with my friends, it was really fun. I wanted to do it again, and then when it became a natural thing and i wanted to train more, i wanted to become better, i wanted to become better than others. So for me, its about really having fun. I knew about him, his dad was pretty well known, i so i knew about the player. I remember him stepping into practice with us, in 15, he wasnt shy. I remember him coming in there, almost like he was the captain of the team sometimes, and he was, like, how are you doing . You were not used to that when 15 years old came in there. They were shy, but he was not like that. Ive never seen it before, never seen it after, so maybe next time im gonna write on the contract if i see someone with the same mentality. It wasnt as if he was hitting the top corner all the time in training. In one of his first Training Sessions with the senior team, he missed a big chance and got a telling off from one of the big boys. And youre then expecting him to maybe be a little bit maybe a bit shaken by that, be a little bit timid maybe, you know, play a little bit within himself for a least a couple of minutes afterwards. But the next time he got the ball, he tried to dribble past one of the best defenders on the team and he was just completely not bothered by any of that. And that stood out at the time as a sign that maybe there is Something Different about this guy. He had the grit, you could see it in the eyes. When we lost, you could see immediately on erlings face, and other players, and i think that was a good thing. I dont want them to smile if they lose, but they have to behave, respect for opponent and try even harder next time not to lose. Erling was confident from the young age when in classroom, yes, and you can see him now, the confidence on the football pitch. You know then going to be a Football Player and now, you know, erling is the best in the world. I think his mindset is brilliant. I try to never overthink. For me, its about kind of taking the confidence from the last game no matter how it went. If you didnt score, you take this confidence with you that, ok, i didnt score at the last game, its more likely im going to score next game. When you think too much, its not a good thing. Ijust try to go in the game and try to make the team as good as possible, and if the team plays good, as a striker, i will get chances, and then when i get chances, normally i score. To me, its not about him being strong and fast, but that his thinking is so quickly. Hes so smart off the ball, | a lot of that will have been learned when he was young cos he had to learn how to find space, he had to learn how to get on the wrong side i of defenders and this sort of stuff. I love to see it, when he understands where the ball is falling down and the defenders around him are just confused thats the best part. Erling was a natural attacker, he always looked for goals, he scored a lot of goals when he was 15, 16 years old. Hes quite the same playing style now than when he was 12, 13 years old. We have seen many of the situation before, l so he has always scored goals. Each level he had just continued to score. I for someone whosejob it is to score goals, he is a surprisingly selfless player. He actually has a reasonable number of assists even though he is a penalty box predator, really. But he will look up and find a teammate if the pass is on. On the field, he definitely. He showed respect, but he didnt show respect, you know. He played his way. He wanted to play to his strengths and didnt matter if it was a 34 year old or a 18 year old that was against him. His hunger for more, more, more. When he scored five goals in the champions league, j he was not happy. He was. He was mad he was going for six, seven, eight. Thats. Its crazy. Everyone else would have gone off this pitch and just say. Happy and remember that for the rest of his life, but he was mad. Thats him. He seemed very driven, he knew that he wanted. This was just a pit stop for him. He a lot of respect for the club, obviously, but he knew that he wanted to go further. He knew and we knew that he had a lot more in store for the future. Im a simple guy. When i do something and i like it, i want to do it more. I would love to win more trophies because of the feeling. And exactly the same with the goals, exactly the same with winning games, you know, cos just the feeling is so nice. So, for me, its a natural thing. When we first saw how good hes gonna be was our best player at the moment, and erling just passed him and, like, pushed him. I think still hes somewhere, and he was going to go and everyone just said, ok, wow, now we see how this guy is going. Two days later, he signed for molde. It was very exciting when he went to molde as a 16 year old guy. Alfie and erling himself, they got a very good feeling from molde. Molde at the time were coached by ole Gunnar Solskjaer and molde are a club that have a very good track record of producing players and, of course, this is the time where his body really starts filling out. I believe the players nicknamed him the manchild because he still has a young boys face but hes starting to get the body ofjust an absolute unit. It was the summer of 2018 where he really caught the eye because they were playing away to brann in bergen and Erling Haaland, then 17 years of age, scores four goals in 21 minutes. For goals against the brann four goals against brann he went pro to salzburg immediately. Its a dream. Its im living the dream. Erling has had such a great season. We had a joke in a Press Conference that, every day, there was a new team that was interested. At this point, everyones interested, but they decide to go to dortmund. Why . Well, in large part because dortmund has no striker, so theres an obvious place for him in the first team. Erling, hes told me that| school is not important hes going to be a Football Player, a star. I told him ok, if youre going to be an international Football Player, you must buy me some tickets. And when he played in dortmund, he sent me some tickets and i was down in dortmund i and see the match, so erling, hes a man of his word the big viking,� as icall him. Bbc sports theme plays. The biggest secret in football has been finally confirmed haaland is now an official Manchester City player. Hejoins the club for £51. 2 million. Im absolutely buzzing honestly, i cant wait he scored goals in pocketfulsj everywhere hes been and its really hard not to see i that happening at city. With me as a striker, i want to have fun. When i have fun, i score goals, i smile, i enjoy playing football and everything. So, in the end, ijust hope to smile a lot. First day . Good to see you, guys. You know, i might have to cancel a few of my broadcasting days, just so i could go watch him live, to be honest. Icant wait Erling Haaland scored twice. On his Premier League debut as Manchester City began. Haaland became the first ever player to score hat tricks in three Successive Premier League matches at home. Hes been described as a 21st century goalscoring machine. He has the last thing that every Striker Needs is the finish. Hes got that in abundance, hes got the movement in abundance. Erling haaland, who scored five for Manchester City last night in their Big Champions League win over rp leipzig. Now, that. Pep guardiola says Erling Haaland is on the Ronaldo Messi level after the striker scored his 30th Premier League goal of the season to help. Erling haaland scored his 50th goal of the season i in all competitions as. Haaland scored his 35th Premier League goal of the season, setting a new record. Elsewhere, Erling Haaland has been named as the Football Writers Association player of the year. Its erling here. I just want to say thank you for the support. Its the louvre. Lets go laughs. Manchester city win the champions league, becoming the only the second team in english football history to complete the treble of major trophies in a single season. N0 limit by 2 unlimited plays. Crowd sings in time Erland Haaland come on bryne is turned completely on their head. If you walk around here, j looking at the paintings, the statues every time erling changed his club, | this town changed its colour. Its surreal that one of the most famous footballers in the world has come out of this little place. I think bryne is most known in norway, and now all over the world, for football. He put bryne on the map. Everyone that has anything i to do with football or knows about football usually knows i where bryne or what bryne is its where erlings from. It seems like we all have agreed that its ok to have two favourite teams in england now. I hope tourisme, peoplel will come to eat the local food, see the bryne match, come and visit the Place Erling Has played. The impact is unbelievable. Weve never seen Something Like this. Everyone� s interested in football, everyone loves erling. You can see it in the street there are more tourists coming in, more interest around the Football Club. In every home, were jumping up and down when he scores a goal. Bryne is so proud of erling. As mayor and citizens are proud that one local lad can be the greatest Football Player. He has inspired young players, of course, all over norway. They go with erling and they say oh, erling, a small kid from bryne could be the best player in the world . And they have a believing, theyre dreaming. Its great to be mayor and watch all the smiles and supporting of erling. My life has changed, of course. I cant live normal so normal any more. Thats something ijust have to admit and thats how my life is. I cant complain. I try to enjoy every single moment of it. Try to relax when im home with good people around me. Erling wont have a normal life for, like, the next 20 or 30 years. Its impossible. But i think if one person are going to handle that in quite a good way, that will be erling. Hes so Down To Earth and thats what i like most about him. Because the success and how big a star he is now, still, when he comes to bryne, itsjust hi, and just a normal guy. He does seem to have this ability to shut out of the lot of the noise. He does seem to have a very solid grounding and i also think some of that comes from your surroundings when you grow up. People rarely get overexcited about anything in bryne. Its a very sort of a farmers mentality, you know . If things are good today, you still be vigilant things might be bad tomorrow. And i think thats something you see in Erling Haaland. What hes done on the football pitch, thats lovely. But when hes speaking in front of the camera, he always speaking about hes just a local boy from bryne. Hes proud of where he come from. The feet is on the ground. So, i am very proud for the whole person erling, notjust what he do on the football pitch. I try to smile as much as i can because its a good thing to have fun and to smile and im an emotional guy and i love to have the people that i love around me, to enjoy the moments 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 didnt see before, that some people are great until their late 30s, so thats what we hope for when it comes to erling. Ive been developing in a really positive way and thats really important for me because im still really young. Im still 22 and ive got a long career ahead of me and i still have to develop and thats also something i was thinking of over one year ago, when i was thinking about my next move, you know, about how i can develop even more and become an even better player. I think he is going to win ballon dor. Many ballon dors. Hes already breaking the Premier League record. Thats crazy. Sky is the limit. I dont have words for what hes doing right now. The most important thing would be that he scores a lot of goals on the National Side and gives us the European Championship or even the World Championship that would be the best part. His Careerjust Gonel on a Straight Line up. Like, its amazing, and its. All deserved because hesjust kept performing and doing what he needs to do. Everything that erling. Experiences now and will experience i think is 100 deserved and, as i said,. We are so happy for him. I hope to see erling back in a bryne shirt but i dont think its in my time, maybe. He was a special boy. But to be the best player in the world, im not going to think thats going to be a reality. But he has a dream and he working hard every day, so now im 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 dont see it in that way, but im very. Proud of how behaved he represent our region| and our town in a very good way, and that makes me proud, not if he is first or runner up in the league. Its about staying humble but being confident that youre going to achieve something, that youre going to perform. But still do the hard work, never relax throughout the whole season. Its a long season thats why i have to stay sharp here, and its not easy. But you have to stay sharp here, stay humble, work hard thats the most important things. Hello there. After wet and windy weather for weeks on end, now it looks like the Weather Pattern could be changing through this month. Now, we started the new year with some sunshine across many parts of the country. Already turning chilly in scotland where weve got those clearer skies, but towards the south west of england, the clouds been rolling in, seen some rain coming in as well. You can see whats happening here on the earlier satellite picture. All this cloud is streaming up from the south west, bringing yet more rain. And the winds are picking up, too, around that weather system. Once that moves through, weve got another one following in behind. And those two combined could bring about two inches of rain, 50 millimetres of rain to england and wales and some flooding, too. Weve got wet weather this evening across england and wales. Moving clear of Northern Ireland heading into scotland there may be some snow over the mountain tops here. Clearer skies will follow for a while, but The Rain Returns into the south coast and the south west by the end of the night, keeping temperatures up here. And by the end of the night in scotland, after an early frost in the east, temperatures will be lifting here. The wetter weather continues northwards up towards the Northern Isles where it will be windy. Its also going to be windy in southern parts of england, some gales, particularly along the south coast. And weve got the spell of wet weather returning from the south west from overnight across england and wales, maybe affecting Northern Ireland for a while. Could turn a bit drier in the south of england in the afternoon, 13 or 14 degrees in those strong winds. Bit of sunshine in between those areas of rain in scotland, but here temperatures will be lower. Most of the wet weather, though, will be for england and wales. That will move away as we head into wednesday. Weve still got some brisk winds in the north east of scotland with a bit of rain. Maybe the risk of some sleet and snow up towards shetland, wont be as windy across the south and generally on wednesday its a day where well see some sunshine and some showers, particularly across wales and the south west. Temperatures though, looking quite healthy at eight to 12 degrees. Now, things will turn colder by the end of the week. Instead of low pressure that will bring wet and windy conditions, were going to start to see High Pressure building down from the north. That will leave us with a north easterly breeze, introduce colder air and lead to some frost as well. But the Weather Pattern looks like changing after a few more days of this wet and windy weather with an increased chance of High Pressure really through the rest of the month, even. That will mean things are going to be drier, which is good news, but it will also turn a bit colder. Live from london, this is bbc news. A powerful earthquake strikes japan, destroying buildings and killing at least four people. Thousands have fled their homes, spending the night in shelters. Israels Supreme Court strikes down a controversialjudicial reform that triggered nationwide protests last year. Migrant boat crossings in the English Channel drop by more than a third, but the figures are still some of the highest on record. Hello, im nicky schiller. We start injapan, where a powerful earthquake has hit the centre of the country, bringing down buildings and power lines. Four people are now confirmed to have died, but the extent of the damage isnt yet clear