Just 19 years old and at the start of his career – yet so mature and level-headed, both on and off the pitch. It’s hard to believe that Erling Haaland has been in Dortmund for just six months. He may seem shy and reserved, but he’s registering every single detail – both in conversation and in action for the Black & Yellows. He always seems to be in the right place, and he always rises to the challenge in the most spectacular way possible.
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The video filmed by Erik Sandberg, Erik Botheim and Erling Haaland on a gloriously sunny afternoon in the summer of 2016 would have almost certainly ended up lost in the depths of YouTube if it weren’t for the three young men making a name for themselves in an entirely different field. Almost four years later, the DIY music video of the ”Flow Kingz” performing ”Kygo Jo” has become an online hit, notching up over 4.5 million views worldwide.
From a musical perspective, Sandberg and Botheim are clearly the driving force of the trio. The third man’s singing voice sounds like the cawing of a crow, but it’s undoubtedly due to Erling Haaland that the performance has become a sensation online. After Haaland’s transfer to Borussia Dortmund, the video started doing the rounds on the internet. It even hit the headlines of a few newspapers. Certain commentators derided the ”follies of youth”, labelling the video ”an embarrassment”, but many fans had a very different view of things. The comments on YouTube are full of praise for Haaland. ”Erling only became a footballer to promote this brilliant song,” writes one user, while another tells a story in three acts: ”I play Kygo Jo at full volume / My neighbour calls the police / The police arrive and arrest my neighbour.”
