City’s Haaland to cover travel costs for fans of former club

Norway and Manchester City striker Erling Haaland pays for fans of his former club Bryne FK to attend the staff’s playoff recreation on Saturday.

Second-tier Bryne, Haaland’s boyhood club, have reached the playoffs for the primary time since 2006 and have an opportunity of getting promoted to Norway’s Eliteserien.

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Haaland, 23, will cover the associated fee of the practice journey for round 200 fans, round NOK 175,000 ($16,000).

“Times are tough for people financially, and that makes it harder for people to prioritize travelling to a game like this here,” Bryne advertising supervisor Bjorn Hagerud Roken instructed TV 2.

“This has therefore given more fans the opportunity to travel.”

Haaland began his profession within the youth ranks at Bryne earlier than progressing to the primary staff in 2016. The following 12 months he joined too-tier aspect Molde earlier than swiftly progressing to Austrian champions RB Salzburg, then Bundesliga aspect Borussia Dortmund earlier than ultimately becoming a member of Manchester City in 2022.

Haaland was Norway’s high scorer within the Euro 2024 qualifiers but it surely wasn’t sufficient to safe his aspect’s qualification for subsequent 12 months’s event in Germany.