Alf-Inge Rasdal Håland ( ; anglicised to Haaland ; born 23 November 1972 ), is a norwegian former professional football player who played as a defender or midfielder. He notably played in the Premier League with Nottingham Forest, Leeds United and Manchester City, winning 34 caps for Norway. He besides had spells in his base area with Bryne FK and Rosseland FK. His career initially ended due to a left stifle injury, although he besides suffered an injury to his other leg that was caused by an ill-famed assault by Manchester United captain Roy Keane ; the pair had a history of clashes on the field. [ 1 ]
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Club career [edit ]
Bryne [edit ]
Håland grew up in Bryne and played football for his local cabaret Bryne .
Nottingham Forest [edit ]
Håland moved to England joining Premier League side Nottingham Forest after a prolong transfer. The go was originally due to be under Brian Clough in 1992 but was completed under the management of Frank Clark in December 1993. [ 2 ] He made his debut for Forest against Leicester City .
Leeds United [edit ]
In July 1997, he joined Leeds United under George Graham. He made his Leeds debut against Arsenal on 9 August 1997. In September 1997, when Manchester United were losing 1–0 to Håland ‘s Leeds United at Elland Road, Roy Keane injured his front tooth cruciate ligament running for the ball with Håland. As Keane lay prone on the reason, Håland, unaware of the seriousness of the injury, stood over him and criticised Keane, suggesting that he was merely pretense injury to try to gain a punishment. [ 3 ] Håland was booked as Keane was stretchered off the field and was out of military action for about a class subsequently. On 26 December 1997, Håland scored a goal in a 3-1 defeat to Liverpool at Anfield, [ 4 ] a feat belated achieved by his son, Erling Haaland, on 2 October 2019. [ 5 ] He was character of a Leeds squad who reached the UEFA Cup semi-finals during the 1999–2000 season and who besides qualified for the Champions League, however with Håland chiefly used as a utility program player, playing in both midfield and defense under the passenger car David O’Leary .
Manchester City [edit ]
In 2000, Håland left Leeds to join Manchester City for a tip of £2.5 million. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In April 2001, during a equal against Manchester United, Roy Keane tackled Håland, kicking him high on his properly stifle, for which he was immediately sent off. Of the incident, Håland said “ I ‘m lone glad my leg was off the ground, differently he would have done me a draw of wrong ”, [ 8 ] Keane was subsequently fined £5,000 and received a three-match banish. In his autobiography, published a class late, Keane stated that the tackle was a pre-meditated, careful dissemble of vengeance against Håland for the on-field criticism he received from him three and a half years previously. After this revelation, Keane found himself subject to an FA question. He claimed inaccurate paraphrase by his ghost-writer, but received an extra five-game ban and a £150,000 all right for bringing the sport into disrepute. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Following the tackle, Håland had initially claimed Keane would not dare to look him in the eye, and he once said “ I in truth dislike ( Manchester ) United and I ca n’t stand their players ”. [ 11 ]
At the time of Keane ‘s tackle, Håland ‘s leave knee was already giving him sufficient problems for him to have to play with strapping around it. [ 12 ] After the tackle, Håland finished the match and played a wednesday friendly for Norway coming off at half-time, [ 13 ] and the future league game, coming off in the 68th minute. [ 14 ] That summer, he underwent surgery on his leave knee, but only managed a promote four alternate appearances the follow season, [ 15 ] and last retired in July 2003 after failing to recover wax seaworthiness. Håland was in the first place contracted with Manchester City until the end of the 2004–05 season, but in his contract it was stated that City could terminate the contract if checkup conditions indicated that he could n’t play first-team football again, and decided to use this option. [ 16 ] Following the secrete of Keane ‘s autobiography in 2002, Håland and Manchester City stated that they were considering taking legal legal action against Keane. however, it emerged that Håland had stated on his personal web site that he had been playing with the injury to his leave knee a few months, that his leave leg did not receive a pink in the game ( Keane kicked his right second joint ), and that Keane did not cause his long condition injury. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Legal carry through was dropped in February 2003 after the cabaret reviewed the medical advice. [ 20 ]
Rosseland BK [edit ]
Håland came out of retirement after eight years, to play for the Bryne-based golf club Rosseland in the norwegian Third Division in 2011. [ 21 ] He retired for good in 2012 .
International career [edit ]
Håland made his debut for Norway in friendly equal against Costa Rica in January 1994. He was later named in Norway ‘s squad for the 1994 World Cup where he played the matches against Mexico and Italy. Håland was capped a sum of 34 times, with his survive international match was against Bulgaria in April 2001. [ 22 ] Håland is — along with Hallvar Thoresen, Dan Eggen, Espen Baardsen, Hans Herman Henriksen and Joshua King — among the few players to have played for the norwegian home team without always playing in the domestic top division. [ 16 ]
personal biography [edit ]
His son, Erling Haaland, is besides a professional football player and presently plays for Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga. [ 23 ] His nephew, Albert Braut Tjåland, plays as a striker for Bryne FK. [ 24 ]