BVB: Erling Haaland receives three meters

Three meters tall, 700 kilograms: Football star Erling Haaland will shortly get a picture of wood in his Norwegian hometown Bryne.

The statue is an order work by Sivertsen AS and is said to be completed in June. "It is a great honor for me to create a sculpture of Erling. This is cool," said the artist Kjetil Barane of the newspaper "VG". Haaland is the most famous son of Bryne, a 12,000-inhabitant city in the southwest of the country. The timber version of the striker of Borussia Dortmund has already attracted international attention, the newspaper The Daily Post was already in front of Baranes door. Haaland's head in particular presented Barane with challenges. "I made a few busts first because later I can't make mistakes in the big block," said the artist, who is already looking forward to the finished sculpture: "If Erling is wrong, it will be the only time that he will be small looks. "