Despite the comparisons because of the physicality and because they're both from Scandanavia, Erling Haaland confessed that he isn't like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and assured that he wants to make his career without comparisons.
Erling Haaland's great season is undisputed. He showed his quality at the end of last year, with his goal-scoring explosion at the U-20 World Cup, and since then everything has gone smoothly.
The Norwegian spoke with 'Four Four Two' about his incredible numbers, about his move to Borussia Dortmund from Salzburg and how he dreams of winning the Champions League with Dortmund.
In the talk, references to Zlatan Ibrahimovic could not be missing. A player who, because of his height, eye for goal and background, he has always been compared to.
"I like his mentality and how he sees things differently from others. I think I've always had that confidence too. I also like the way he moves from one club to another, in another country, which isn't easy, but he always comes in and scores goals, right from the first second," the Norwegian said, who is one of his players of reference.
However, he quickly established differences in relation to the Milan attacker. "We're both strikers and we're both tall. But we have a different game. It's hard to compare us. I am who I am. I haven't spoken to him yet," he continued.
To conclude, Haaland, who has already scored quite a lot of goals and at quite a high level, chose a goal scored when he was younger as his best strike: "My best goal is one I scored from midfield. It was in 2015, with the Norwegian Under 15 team. It's perhaps the best goal I've ever scored".