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GOALS GALORE! SCORES NINE AGAINST HONDURAS Haaland delivered an epic display of goal-scoring never before seen in the history of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup, battering the defenseless Honduras team with a hard-to-imagine nine goals in Norway’s 12–0 rout. The 18-year-old found the net four times in the opening half of the group stage match in Poland during the 2019 tournament and tallied five more goals in the second half to crush the previous single game record of six goals held by Adailton of Brazil. Haaland earned the prestigious Golden Boot award for his exploits, as only two players in tournament history had scored more goals in the entire tournament than Haaland did in a single game: Javier Saviola had 11 goals in the 2001 tournament, and Adailton had 10 in the 1997 event. Haaland also put Norway into the U-20 World Cup history books with the largest margin of victory ever in the event, bettering Brazil’s 10–0 win against Belgium in 1997.

Erling Haaland scored a record nine goals as Norway defeated Honduras 12–0 at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland in 2019.

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