Behind the Manchester derby city vs. United is a very particular story for the Norwegian player.\
Before Haaland, there was another Haaland. Erling, the excellent star of Manchester City, was not the first. Alf-Inge, his father, already played in the Premier League and played for the city, a team in which the son is now the actual sensation of European football.
And this club, coached by Pep Guardiola, hosts Manchester United this Sunday in one of the foremost English football derbies. And behind this duel is a personal story and revenge in the Haaland family.
1997 to understand what the Norwegian striker is playing for this Sunday. He was not born, but his father was already playing in the first division of English football. He was a member of Leeds United, one of the great teams in the Premier in those years. On one of the first days of that league.
Alf-Inge Haaland would have an incident that marked his career forever and, in a way, that of his son, who had not yet been born. In a match against Manchester United, Roy Keane, one of the great players in the club's history, went into the area, missed Haaland, and had the bad luck that his knee got stuck.
The Irishman, known in the world of football for his rebelliousness, stayed on the ground in pain, and the Norwegian went for him, recriminating him for entering. He believed he was faking it when the opposite was true: Keane had torn his knee ligament and was out for the entire season.
What could have remained a set of many at stake had its continuation four years later in one of the most remembered cases of British football.
The eldest of the Haaland had signed for Manchester City, a team in which his son now plays, and in a derby in this city like the one played this Sunday, Roy Keane took his revenge on him. It was 2001, the current Haaland was only a year old, and Keane remembered well what had happened. In a simple action in midfield with a divided ball.
Haaland Sr. alternated his central position with that of defensive midfielder - he went to 'hunt' the Norwegian with a criminal tackle which sparked outrage throughout England.
Not only happy to have injured his rival, Keane, once expelled, went for Haaland as he writhed in pain and shouted: "Take this bastard; you will not laugh at my fake injuries anymore."
He who does it pays and has the reward from him. What goes, he comes back. He hit me, and my attitude is an eye for an eye », said the controversial Irish player years later in his biography, in which he acknowledged that he had injured him on purpose.
Outside of football, Alf-Inge dedicated himself to his son's education as if it were a sign of fate that terrible injury led to the lethal footballer who is today the new Haaland.
With this history, City and United meet this Sunday in the first Manchester derby for Erling Haaland, who knows his family history well.
Roy Keane, lost in recent years after several coaching failures, will not be in front. It is the family revenge that the fashionable striker in Europe is looking for, although the illegal entries remain a concise memory of the past.
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