Erling Haaland is having a helluva World Cup. The 25-year-old Norwegian center forward has become a star player during the tournament, helping advance Team Norway into the quarter final stage for the first time in 28 years.
But beyond scoring an impressive 27 points across 14 games thus far, he has also become the cup’s unofficial beloved weirdo. In many ways this was foretold. In a 2023 profile of Erling GQ reported that he was so popular online that the tourist board of Haaland—a…

