🚨 Erling Haaland reveals his conversation with Cristiano Ronaldo ahead of Norway vs Portugal:
“I spoke with Cristiano yesterday. I told him, ‘You know, when I was younger, you were actually quite annoying.’
He looked at me and said, ‘Why?’
I said, ‘Because every season I would watch you score 50, 60 goals and you made it look normal. When you’re a kid watching that, you start thinking this is what a striker is supposed to do.’
He smiled and said, ‘Good. It worked.’
I told him, ‘Now I understand it wasn’t normal.’
He said, ‘No. Now you understand because people expect it from you too.’
That stayed with me.
We spoke about goals, pressure, defenders and how strange football is. Ten years ago I was watching him and studying how defenders could know exactly what he wanted to do and still not stop him. Now I’m standing there talking to him about defenders trying to do the same thing with me.
Before we finished, Cristiano said, ‘I have one wish for you.’
I thought he was going to say something about breaking records.
He said, ‘Win the Ballon d’Or one day. You’re a goalscorer, you work hard and you have many years. I would be proud to see you with one.’
I told him, ‘Coming from you, that means a lot.’
Then he said, ‘But not everything I did is there for you to copy. Some records you can leave alone.’
I said, ‘Which ones?’
He said, ‘Erling, we play soon. I’ve already said too much.’”
Savannah James opens up about the challenges of being married to someone as famous as LeBron and explains how his consistency makes things easier for her.
“I’ve known him longer than I’ve had the opportunity to live a life, obviously. I’ve known him since I was 16.”
“He definitely shows who he is in his strength, in his inspirational ways on the court, but when he’s home, it translates… being a husband, being a father, but all very much the same.”