During that time, Keane was a little depressed.
In the Champions League, the Red Devils United lost to the Stade Olimpico in Munich and missed the semi-finals.
The hot-tempered Irishman will naturally bring emotions to the subsequent matches, not to mention the Manchester City derby.
On 21 April 2001, Old Trafford was buzzing with the city of Manchester derby, with fans and players fighting between the two sides a few weeks before the match.
Depressed, Keane has long been eyeing his "nemesis" Alf Haaland.
The feud between these two people has a long history. Although both are in Nottingham Forest, the Norwegian has played for Leeds United and Manchester City, and these two teams happen to be manchester United's sworn enemies, and the red and white rose derby and the Manchester City derby are bayonet competitions between the two sides.
The technical style and position characteristics of the elder Haaland also determined that he was very easy to clash with Manchester United players. The Norwegian can play at the back, the defender is known for his tough style and tough style, and the stars who have had direct dialogue with him are miserable.
Back in September 1997, Keane led Manchester United to a visit to Elam Road stadium for a match against old rival Leeds United.
In fact, the Red Devils were not in a good state that day, and their mood was also very bad. The elder Haaland's "meticulous" defense also annoyed Keane, and a few years later the Irishman himself admitted: "From the beginning of the game, he was torturing me. ”
"Five minutes left... I pounced on old Haaland. I was trying to trip him up, not kick him. I knew it might mean a yellow card, but he really drove me crazy. ”
Keane, who was in poor shape and a little too hard, eventually suffered a big loss in the confrontation with the Norwegians. Keane's cruciate ligament in his left leg ruptured after a violent charge against old Haaland, which the other players didn't know at the time, and the old Haland and his teammate Weatherlar rushed straight to Keane and accused him of lying on the grass pretending to be injured.
At the time, United had run out of substitutes and Keane tried to keep back on the pitch, but without success, and eventually he announced his reimbursement that season. And Keane's "beams" with the elder Haland were thus concluded.
At the end of the Manchester Derby, the depressed mood brought Keane back to the situation of the year, the Irishman fortunately turned his heart sideways, and the Manchester United captain kicked the old Haaland directly into the right knee with a terrible tackle.
After Haland fell to the ground, Keane continued to vent his anger: "Don't stand in front of me and laugh at my fake fall, tell your friend Weatherlar, I will still settle accounts with him." Before the referee showed the red card, Keane had gone straight back to the dressing room.
Perhaps, Keane's foot did not directly end the career of the elder Haaland, but this impulse became the last straw that broke the camel' back, and the Norwegian, who retired early, deserves to return to his hometown with his family and put all his enthusiasm for football on the next generation.
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In July 2000, Haaland Jr. was born in Leeds, England, because of his father's performance in the Premier League, and after his father retired from the army due to injury, they returned to their hometown of Blenny in southwestErn Norway, back to the town where the dream began.
In the game, the most impressive thing about Little Haland is his physical fitness against the sky, confrontation, speed, and agility will make opponents afraid.
Apparently, his athletic talents came from the player's father and the athlete's mother. According to foreign media reports, Haaland still holds the world record of 163 centimeters for a 5-year-old child to set a long jump, which can be said to be a talent.
Although Haaland looked thin as a child, all coaches believed that even as he grew older, Haaland would be able to get stronger and become a good player.
However, a piece of jade needs to be carved to be a tool. He can grow up to kill the Nordic stars in all directions, only talent is far from enough, but also needs his father to cultivate him carefully.
Probably because his career was ruined by injuries, the elder Haaland paid great attention to his son's body, and from an early age he developed a scientific diet menu for him, creating a physical quality that belonged to the superstar from an early age.
It is said that the old Haaland also painstakingly asked for C Ronaldo's recipe in the Manchester United period from the former Manchester United star Evra, so that his son could match the superstar in his diet, which can be described as well-intentioned.
In the process of children's growth, parents ensure that they are full and wear warm, which can only be said to achieve the most basic level, and also use their own words and deeds to promote the formation of children's good habits. More importantly, parents need to be able to point out the direction of their growth and help their children make the right life choices at each birth node.
Haaland was able to evolve from a tall, thin child to a demon Buo, and his father played a key role.
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"Dad was too young when he played in England to realise he was a footballer. When I was about five or six years old I knew he was playing in the Premier League and the Norwegian national team. He's also talked about himself and I've seen his goal highlights, all of which are beautiful goals. ”
It can be said that Haaland's growth path has left his father's figure at every step, although he did not rely on defense like his father, but his attitude towards football focus is the same as that of father and son.
"To be honest, being a striker is more fun than being a defensive back. But since I started playing football we've been talking a lot about football, and we still are. My father has always been the best role model in my life. ”
Like every hard-working old father, the elder Haaland has also made great efforts in the "education" of his children, and he is determined to become a football player and must follow the right coach.
There are also tall people in the sparsely populated Bryney. Through his influence in Norwegian football, the elder Haaland contacted the famous local coach Alf Ingve Berntsen, a coach with 30 years of rich youth training experience, who saw the talent of little Haland in an indoor game, and immediately decided to bring this football "star ii" to the side to cultivate.
"What's special about Erlin (Haaland) is that he's always been able to score goals, we don't have a academy in Norway, except for some big clubs, basically playing in grassroots teams. Parents act as coaches, no one has a salary, but we also have good people on our team. "Enlightenment coach Burnson is definitely Harland's Bó Lè.
Under Burnson, Haaland unleashed his talents according to the norms of becoming a professional player. Often arranged by the coach to play in the jumping competition, it can be said that at a young age, he played all over the local opponents of all ages. More importantly, the mentor gave him the self-discipline that a professional player should have, even if he entered the Brian first team, Haaland still smoked and drank and was insulated from the night court, such a distraction can make him grow rapidly.
Sure enough, the young Haaland played a world in the Bryney team, and in 2017, he was favored by the Norwegian super team Molde team and began a new hero growth journey. And in the beautiful Molde Fjord, the elder Haaland chose another good teacher for his son, Solskjaer.
After joining the "giants", Haaland Jr.'s first season was not smooth, scoring only 4 goals in 20 games, but Sochaux did not lose confidence in the son of an old friend, and under the words and example of the former Manchester United's amazing goalscorer, Haaland's ability to complete the fatal blow in front of the goal matured.
In Molde's second season, Haaland finally made a name for himself, scoring a staggering 16 goals for the team, and it can be said that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer started the scoring machine with his life's work.
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If Haland's growth path is corresponding to ordinary Chinese children, the script looks like this:
With his father's connections and his own talent and efforts, he went to a key primary school in his hometown, and because of his excellent grades, he went to a key middle school in a big city, and the high school class teacher was still his father's old friend and the industry elite.
With excellent grades in middle school, where do you go to college? This problem also plagued the Haaland fathers and sons.
Due to his success in Molde, Haaland is remembered by many European clubs, including Juventus, Manchester United and Bayer Leverkusen. But the old Haaland, who worked hard step by step, is very clear that the players have stabilized a large number of game opportunities at a young age, and if they join the giants too early, they are very likely to face the situation of not being able to play and finally "injuring Zhongyong".
As a result, Haaland went south to join Red Bull Salzburg, and the competition in this Austrian giant was not fierce, and there was a European platform to show themselves, which was the best of both worlds. As Haaland himself put it: "I'm glad Juventus is interested in me, but I think it's too early to go there." Salzburg is the best club for me and the chances of playing here are even greater. ”
Sure enough, shortly after arriving in Salzburg, Haaland first shined at the 2019 World Youth Championship in Poland, scoring 9 goals against Honduras, which made the world look at it. After six months of adaptation, it quickly became the horn of Red Bull in the new season, scoring 28 goals in 24 games, including five with a cap, and eight goals in six Champions League games.
Such a report card proves that the Haaland father and son made the right choice. With the momentum of the Red Bull massacre and the continuation of the decision-making style of Haaland's father and son, Haaland has gone up a step and joined Dortmund to enter the five major leagues, laying the foundation for the next step into the top giants.
In addition to this, the elder Haaland is also active in paving the way for his son in the transfer market. After his son came to prominence, the Norwegian allied with the agent predator Rayola, a difficult fat man who claimed to be the devil in the eyes of the club, but would indeed fight for the interests of his players, and with the blessing of his connections, Haaland's future path was more secure.
Behind the steady improvement of Haaland's career, it is inseparable from his father's careful planning and wise decision-making.
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From a football perspective, the elder Haaland has two regrets.
The first is that he was injured prematurely and failed to become a member of the top league giants, and at the beginning of the century Manchester City was just a Premier League lift; the second was the results of the Norwegian national team, the 1994 World Cup Old Haland participated with the team, but unfortunately hated the group stage, and the breakthrough of the national team has always been the dream of Norwegian football.
Haaland Jr. is currently running fast with two of his father's regrets: in the Bundesliga he became a super center on a par with Levan, and in the national team he is also struggling with his Odegaon teammates.
Borussia Dortmund is only a transit point for the "magic man Buu", as the representative of the new generation of centre-forwards, Haaland has recently been in a state of flux, scoring 9 goals and contributing 3 assists in 7 games in the new season, he has made all Bundesliga defenders feel the cold wind from the Norwegian fjords, and it is only a matter of time before the transfer of giants to the center stage of European football.
Today, Haaland has taken over the banner of his father's generation and become the star of the Norwegian national team, which has improved significantly in terms of technology compared with its predecessors, and the lack of participation in international competitions is only a temporary dilemma.
Haaland, who scored 12 goals in 15 games for the national team, is not satisfied, and he wants to achieve the goal of one goal per game and strive to break the national team's record of 33 goals as soon as possible. Led by this record shredder, the Norwegian team cannot sink forever.
At that time, the inheritance and sublimation between Haaland's father and son can be truly completed.