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WINS 2020 GOLDEN BOY AWARD

A look at some of the goals Erling Haaland scored during the 2020 Bundesliga season on his way to earning the Golden Boy Award. the results were remarkably the same: goal scoring in bunches. Haaland struck 44 times throughout all competitions in 2019–2020, a golden year worthy of adding to his trophy case. It’s clear one of the bigger problems Erling Haaland is going to face as his career advances is finding space for all the shiny awards being dropped in his lap. In 2020, he was named winner of the Golden Boy Award, which is annually presented to the best player aged 21 or under from a top-tier European league. Traversing his first season in the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund, Haaland spun together a string of flashy numbers to beat out a talented bunch of players hoping to get their hands on the award, including Barcelona’s Ansu Fati, who was runner-up in the voting, and Bayern Munich’s Alphonso Davies, who was third. While Haaland’s year featured wearing a couple of different uniforms—he started with reigning Austrian champion Salzburg and midway through joined Borussia Dortmund in Germany’s Bundesliga—

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