According to Haaland, handball coach Thorir Hergeirsson wanted him to focus on handball at a young age instead of football.
Norwegian Erling Haaland24, is one of the best soccer players in the world right now. Manchester City’s attacking star was also a promising handball player when he was young.
NRKAccording to a recent interview by
– Icelandic coach of the Norwegian women’s national handball team Thorir Hergeirsson said he wanted me to focus on handball, Haaland told NRK.
Haaland agrees that he could have become a good handball player.
– However, I think football was a good choice.
Norwegian media also caught up with Hergeirsson, who still remembers well what he thought about Haaland, who played handball at the time.
– He also loved scoring goals in handball. He had spirit, speed and explosiveness.
At 195 centimeters, Haaland would also have had a promising career as a handball player.
– As a handball player, he probably wouldn’t have been physically as superior as he was in football, Hergeirsson thinks, however.
Too small a field for Haaland
One of the best women’s handball players in the world Henny Reistad agrees with his coach’s words and believes that Haaland’s handball career could have been hindered by the fact that the handball court would have been too small for the soccer star.
– You could almost imagine that the handball court would have been too short for him, because he is so fast. The question is whether he would have been able to use all his qualities, Reistad thinks.
In the interview, Haaland was also asked if he could see himself in some sports other than football. Haaland had replied that he could be a good 100 meter sprinter.