To observe within the footsteps of goal-machine Erling Haaland appears to be one among soccer’s most delicate jobs. Borussia Dortmund’s new arrival Sebastien Haller doesn’t really feel any strain to interchange the 21-year-old Norwegian, who scored 86 objectives in 89 video games within the shirt of the Black and Yellows.
“Who mentioned I’m the successor of Haaland? I joined Borussia, proper. However I didn’t take part to succeed anybody. I joined the membership to assist the facet obtain success and the membership wished my expertise and expertise,” the 28-year-old striker advised Xinhua in a latest interview.
“We wish to achieve success and we wish to win titles; that’s the story,” the Cote d’Ivoire worldwide insisted.
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Haller’s signing comes together with huge expectations as he stands for a method change at Dortmund. As a substitute of going for an additional promising expertise up entrance, the 2012 German champion determined to get an skilled footballer.
The 2 occasions Dutch champion mentioned his two years at Eintracht Frankfurt (2017-2019) would possibly assist pace up issues “as at the moment I do know extra in regards to the Bundesliga and German soccer than I did the primary time after I was the brand new child on the town.”
A son of a Cote d’Ivoire mom and a French father, Haller collected worldwide expertise at a excessive stage within the shirt of Ajax. 32 objectives in 50 video games for the Dutch facet made him a trusted box-striker.
With Haaland (Manchester Metropolis) and Robert Lewandowski (Barca) leaving Bundesliga, doorways may be open for Haller to go for the German nationwide league’s high scorer crown.
“I gained’t begin to complain. Lewandowski has left. However for a begin it doesn’t change issues an excessive amount of for me,” the 1.90-meter-tall attacker mentioned.
Haller added that if issues work nicely for Dortmund, he’s eyeing the scorer crown as every other striker “as you at all times wish to rating as many objectives as attainable.”
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