{"id":252809,"date":"2026-07-13T20:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/haaland-returns-from-world-cup-with-viral-stuffed-raccoon-thescore\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:39:06","slug":"haaland-returns-from-world-cup-with-viral-stuffed-raccoon-thescore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/haaland-returns-from-world-cup-with-viral-stuffed-raccoon-thescore\/","title":{"rendered":"Haaland returns from World Cup with viral stuffed raccoon | theScore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"Article content\" id=\"article-content\">\n<p>Erling Haaland brought home a unique souvenir after his World Cup participation in North America.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian superstar, who put on a show this summer, went viral Monday after sharing a photo of himself leaving an airplane in his home country while carrying what appears to be a taxidermied raccoon clutching a liquor bottle.<\/p>\n<p>The images looked AI-generated at first, but Haaland joined the fun to confirm his latest acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It followed me home,&#8221; he joked on social media.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-segment--embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It followed me home \ud83e\udd9d\ud83e\udd23 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IwMhgv0CAb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/IwMhgv0CAb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erling Haaland (@Erling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Erling\/status\/2076752932486156482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 13, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Haaland helped Norway reach the quarterfinals during a historic run that included a triumph over five-time World Cup champion Brazil. England eliminated Norway last week. The Man City striker scored seven goals in five games at his first World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Norway fans also went viral, becoming one of the tournament&#8217;s main storylines for their celebrations, including the &#8220;<a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3557813\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/worldcup\/news\/3557813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viking Row<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/worldcup\/news\/3566325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erling Haaland brought home a unique souvenir after his World Cup participation in North America. The Norwegian superstar, who put on a show this summer, went viral Monday after sharing a photo of himself leaving an airplane in his home country while carrying what appears to be a taxidermied raccoon clutching a liquor bottle. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-252809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}