The Norwegian team has managed to reach the quarterfinals of the 2026 World Cup. A historic milestone for those known as ‘The Red Vikings’ who have achieved, in part, thanks to Manchester City FC striker Erling Braut Haaland. However, few know a somewhat curious and friendly side of adolescence. While his teammates were training, a young 16-year-old Haaland was making his first steps in the world of rap.
Norway’s quarter-final match against England will take place this Saturday, a match in which the Red Vikings They will fight to reach the semifinals of the 2026 World Cup and where Prince Haakon will go to support his team. However, it was in the last match against Brazil, in which Haaland managed to eliminate the Brazilian team by scoring two goals, when social networks began to be filled with a video from his past: a song by his former musical group Flow Kingz.
The Manchester City defender recorded a rap song when he was 16
The video clip for the song, titled “Kygo jo”, was published on the Flow Kingz YouTube channel in 2016. In it you can see a young Haaland accompanied by two of his teammates from the Norwegian under-17 team, Botheim and Sandberg. The three, motivated by the stress of training and their love of rap, wanted to start a small musical project with which to distract the mind.
The lyrics of the song reflect the carefree and fun character of three young people who were only looking to have fun and rest of the routine. Therefore, when they decided to record it and publish it on their channel, none of them were aware that they were leaving such a surprising memory available to the public for their future followers. Likewise, they could not imagine that, ten years later, their theme would achieve reach almost 22 million views.
This is the only song of the musical group and remember that, although the goals that the defender manages to score seem from out of this planet, This is a normal young manwith his passions and little anecdotes from childhood. When asked in interviews about Flow Kingz, the defender has assured that this arose because “we were a little bored and decided to make a rap song“.
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However, This is not the only surprising fact about his childhood.because unlike the relatives of other footballers who supported them in their career from the beginning, Haaland’s father did not want him to dedicate himself to football. As explained in the podcast ‘The Rest Is Football’, his father was not able to see his future on the football fieldswhich forced him to play golf for three years against his own dreams.
“He forced me to play golf from the age of 10 to 13. “I didn’t want him to be a footballer,” he said. It should be remembered that Erling’s father is the Norwegian Alf-Inge Haaland, who He represented his country in the 1994 World Cup. and who was playing for the English club, Leeds United, the year his son was born. Despite his opposition, the young man continued fighting to fulfill his dream of being a professional footballer. managing to play for the Bryne FK club at only 15 years old.
However, where he managed to position himself as one of the great scorers was at Molde FK. Later, he began playing for the Red Bull Salzburg club, where he caught the attention of the international public, managing to be signed by the Borussia Dortmund on December 29, 2019 at only 19 years old. Currently, he is playing as a forward in the Manchester City F.C. and shares the position with Lamine Yamal, the footballer with the highest value on the market for Transfermarkt, reaching 200 million euros.