Haaland on Cristiano Ronaldo’s performance vs Uzbekistan scoring twice and becoming the first player in football history to score at 6 different World Cups:
🗣️ “What we are watching is not normal anymore. Six World Cups. That is not football… that is history being rewritten in real time.”
“People talk about eras, generations, and transitions in football. But Ronaldo is standing in the middle of all of them, refusing to let any of them forget his name.”
“Scoring twice in a World Cup match at this stage of his career is already incredible. But then you add the fact he has scored in six different World Cups… that’s something you can’t even train for. That’s legacy on another level.”
“I don’t care who you are, you have to respect that. That level of hunger after so many years at the top is not normal. Most players are finished long before that point.”
“Against Uzbekistan, he didn’t just score goals… he made another chapter in football history feel routine. And that’s the most frightening part.”
“Because when a player turns the impossible into something expected… you’re no longer watching a career. You’re watching a phenomenon.”