{"id":121551,"date":"2026-07-08T16:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/121551\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:52:23","slug":"nato-summit-banter-canada-pm-carney-tries-to-recruit-erling-haaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/121551\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Summit Banter: Canada PM Carney Tries To Recruit Erling Haaland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the NATO summit in Turkey, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney lightened the mood by humorously attempting to recruit Norwegian football sensation Erling Haaland for Canada&#8217;s World Cup squad, sparking a playful exchange with his Norwegian counterpart.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgwidth\" title=\"Norway's Erling Haaland has scored seven goals thus far in his team's run to the quarter-finals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/08haaland.jpg\" alt=\"Norway's Erling Haaland has scored seven goals thus far in his team's run to the quarter-finals\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Norway&#8217;s Erling Haaland has scored seven goals thus far in his team&#8217;s run to the quarter-finals.  Photograph: Dylan Martinez\/Reuters <\/p>\n<p>Key Points<\/p>\n<p>Canadian PM Mark Carney jokingly attempted to recruit Norwegian football star Erling Haaland for Canada&#8217;s World Cup team.<br \/>\nThe humorous exchange occurred during a NATO summit in Turkey, where Carney met Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Stoere.<br \/>\nStoere playfully rejected the offer, stating that Haaland &#8216;is not for sale&#8217;.<br \/>\nThe banter highlighted friendly diplomatic relations between Canada and Norway amidst serious summit discussions.<br \/>\nCanada recently exited the World Cup after a historic run, while Norway advanced to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Prime Minister Mark Carney mixed business with banter at the NATO summit in Turkey as he jokingly attempted to recruit Norway&#8217;s star striker Erling Haaland for his country&#8217;s next World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomatic Banter And Football Dreams<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney jokes with Norwegian Prime Minister to &#8216;share&#8217; striker Erling Haaland at the next World Cup, during a trilateral meeting in Ankara, Turkey on Tuesday.  Photograph: Reuters <\/p>\n<p class=\"rbig\">Carney met Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the sidelines of the summit in Turkey&#8217;s capital Ankara on Tuesday, a day after agreeing to a submarine deal with a German-Norwegian partnership. Highlighting the importance of Canada&#8217;s relationship with Norway, Carney could not resist making an audacious pitch for the Norwegian forward who has scored seven goals at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Interoperability also means sharing crews. And in the next World Cup, if you could share Erling Haaland with us, that would be greatly, greatly appreciated,&#8221; he joked, drawing laughs from Stoere.<\/p>\n<p>Stoere immediately broke into a Viking-row gesture and said: &#8220;He is not for sale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Norway stunned Brazil in the round of 16 and play England in the quarter-finals on Saturday. World Cup co-hosts Canada bowed out of the tournament last week after an inspirational run that saw them claim the nation&#8217;s first World Cup point, first World Cup victory and first knockout-stage win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the NATO summit in Turkey, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney lightened the mood by humorously attempting to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[41092,35550,111,40193,3543],"class_list":["post-121551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-canada-football","tag-erling-haaland","tag-mark-carney","tag-nato-summit","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}