Manchester City forward shows he is a dab hand in the kitchen as he launches his YouTube channel
“I
t’s been a good day, doing lots of good things for my body and what I normally do in my life,” Erling Haaland says in the opening seconds of the video that marked the launch of his YouTube channel on Thursday. The recording is entitled “Day in the life of a pro footballer” but this is not the most enticing start. Will it be the usual run-of-the-mill offering about how a footballer has herbal tea, protein powder and a private chef to produce beans on toast?
It will not, it turns out. If the key takeaways are that Haaland has maple syrup in his coffee, stands in front of red light to get vitamin D and is sickeningly talented on the barbecue, there is more besides when the Manchester City striker invites the camera into his mansion of marble, clean edges and floor-to-ceiling windows. Maybe he is not permanently a footballer eager to mow down defenders on his way to scoring goals.
A Shaun Wright-Phillips-sized teddy bear stands in the corner of the kitchen, confirmation perhaps that the grizzly Norwegian is actually cuddly, although his young child may have something to do with the stuffed toy. Like any sleep-deprived parent, Haaland starts with a coffee, suggesting it is a “superfood, if done right”. The expensive bit of kit implies he has been on a barista course but a Milanese coffee aficionado is unlikely to have added the maple syrup. Equally, they have not scored 24 goals in 14 games for club and country this season.
