Haaland's idyll with Marbella

Erling Haaland has come to Marbella Football Center (a center where many teams from all over the world come to concentrate) now with Norway. The first time was with the Molde of his country and the second with Borussia Dortmund. In just three years, from 2018 to today, its growth has been dizzying. And its price is through the roof.

Marbella Football Center welcomed 256 teams in 2020. Despite the pandemic, this facility was the balm for different clubs throughout Europe to find the ideal habitat, in many cases, to escape severe winters that contrast with the benefits of the Costa del Sol.

Borussia Dortmund is a regular. He comes almost every year, like many clubs in northern, central and eastern Europe and quite a few in Asia in search of privacy, work and relaxation. And in this situation was the historic German team on January 3, 2020, when a young talent at just 19 years old joined his concentration, signed from Austrian Salzburg for just over 21 million euros and with a termination clause of 150 million euros. In Europe, it was surprising that such a “fortune” was paid by an unknown boy. But time has shown, in this case, that expensive is cheap.

It is strange that the best clubs in Europe did not make an effort to sign a budding talent who in Austria he had 29 goals in 27 games. Dortmund, an expert in discovering unknown talents to resell them at the price of Lewandowki or Gundogan type diamonds among others, brought it to its concentration in Marbella on January 3, 2020. An ideal setting.

Eight days later he made his debut in a match against Mainz 05 at this iconic facility. A great Borussia with Mario Gotze, Reus, Witsel, Sancho, Paco Alcácer or Larsen and trained by the Swiss Lucien Favre. Borussia lost 0-2. But the result was the least. There was talent there. And the good one.

But this is not the beginning. At just 17 years old, Haaland came to this Costa del Sol football benchmark with Molde. Those who saw him work day to day were already clear that this blond boy had a special talent and soul. Strength, intelligence and ease for the goal. Despite being little more than a teenager, Salzburg signed him for five million euros. Only four years later it is worth 150… and going up.Marbella is your talismanic place,