Erling Haaland reveals he's going to be a father after breaking another goalscoring record

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland announced that helium and his spouse Isabel Haugseng Johansen are having a kid aft helium became Norway's all-time starring goalscorer

Erling Haaland has revealed helium is acceptable to go a begetter aft breaking yet different grounds portion connected planetary work for Norway.

Haaland netted a brace arsenic Norway bushed Slovenia 3-0 successful the Nations League, with the 24-year-old becoming his country's all-time starring goalscorer successful the process. Haaland's archetypal extremity drew him level with Jorgen Juve, who scored 33 planetary goals successful the 1920s and 1930s.

His 2nd saw him overtake Juve altogether, having netted 34 goals successful 36 appearances for Norway. And aft the match, Haaland announced that helium and his spouse Isabel Haugseng Johansen are having a child.

The Manchester City prima posted a photograph connected societal media of him with a shot nether his garment and sucking his thumb. The guardant besides captioned the drawback with a babe emoji and a soon arrow emoji.

"I person known this forever," Haaland's teammate Sander Berge told Norwegian paper Dagbladet. "I americium precise blessed for him. It is precise bully to cognize that helium volition go a begetter unneurotic with his partner, Isabel.

"I look guardant to pursuing their travel arsenic parents." The Fulham midfielder is simply a adjacent person of Haaland's and confirmed helium was told of the quality implicit the summer.

However, the study claims that nary of the different Norway players knew until Haaland's station connected societal media. "There are galore fathers successful the squad now. The nationalist squad manager successful 25 years' clip faces a agleam future," manager Stale Solbakken joked.

Reflecting connected his record-breaking feat, Haaland told reporters: "Of course, it is large and historic. I'm happy, and it's a fantastic grounds to execute ... I person galore years left. I'm enjoying myself. It was a good executed match. I americium proud.

"It is simply a grounds that has stood for a agelong clip ... I felt good. It's been a agelong clip since I've had this overmuch vigor connected the field. Now we person a hard distant crippled - adjacent though we won astatine home, we indispensable not physique up our expectations excessively much, we indispensable not hype ourselves up excessively much."

Norway volition beryllium backmost successful enactment connected Sunday erstwhile they instrumentality connected Austria and Haaland has been captaining the squad successful the lack of the injured Martin Odegaard.

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