Haaland uses FIFA to send another wink to Madrid

Erling Braut Haaland is not a man of much talk. In a mixed zone, he is sparing in words (not infrequently he barely answers the microphone with a monosyllable) and little friend of offering details when asked by the press. Details that if he leaves on the green with its quality and also, outside of it … on its future.

Goals, celebrations, attitudes and also gestures on the most unexpected platforms. Unexpected if you are not Gen Z. Through Ultimate Team, FIFA's most popular game mode for over a decade, Haaland made his last nod to Real Madrid, a team that loves him and is among his favorites.

The one who raised the track was Alex Stephenson, a boy from Oxford, quietly playing FIFA 21 on his console when, all of a sudden, the ever-grateful matchmaking system paired him with Erling Haaland to play a Division Rivals match (online game mode that works by divisions and is used to qualify for FUT Champions, the weekly competition that brings together thousands of players on weekends). How did you know it was him? By the blue card that can be seen in the images. This card does not appear in the 'standard' game and EA exclusively sends them to several professional players with all the statistics to the maximum. In the original game, Haaland has a rating of 84, but that card that only he has has a rating of 99. Along with his card, he lined up several of the best players in the game.: Yashin, Zambrotta, Maldini, Campbell, Roberto Carlos, Gullit, Vieira, Cantona, Maradona and Ronaldo Nazario played with the virtual and exclusive version of the Norwegian. Despite his great team, Alex defeated him and Haaland 'pulled the cable' disconnecting on purpose of the game when the score went 4-2 in favor of the Englishman, who documented everything through a video that he later shared on Instagram and it has gone viral.

The surprise jumped when the shield with which he dressed his team is seen in the video: that of Real Madrid. Under the name of FC Braod, his team wears the Whites' crest in a further nod to their 'favorite team'.

The Norwegian wants to play for Real Madrid and the Whites are already positioning themselves for an operation that will be resolved in the long term. Although the forward does not have a termination clause, his agent Mino Raiola and Borussia Dortmund do have a verbal pact to 'allow' his departure in 2022. His price is still unknown but his tastes seem clear.