Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney jokingly attempted to recruit Norway’s star striker Erling Haaland for Canada’s next World Cup squad during a meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere at the NATO summit in Turkey.

Carney highlighted the importance of Canada’s relationship with Norway and made an audacious pitch for the Norwegian forward, saying: “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,” drawing laughs from Stoere.

Stoere immediately responded with a Viking-row gesture and said: “He is not for sale.” Norway recently stunned Brazil in the round of 16 and will play England in the quarter-finals.

Canada, the World Cup co-host, bowed out of the tournament last week after an inspirational run that saw them claim their first World Cup point, first World Cup victory, and first knockout-stage win.

Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.