<p>Manchester City football star Erling Haaland is a Clash of Clans surprise character now, <em>BBC</em> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68927263?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-bbcnews&utm_content=later-42714156&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio" rel="nofollow">reported</a>. </p><p>One of the world's most popular mobile games, Clash of Clans will have an animated version of Haaland, who will become the Barbarian King in the game, developer Supercell stated.</p><p>Haaland, who himself is a huge fan of the game, said that becoming a playable character was "really cool".</p><p>The players will be able to recruit the Norwegian striker to join them, or try to ruin his village from Wednesday, the publication stated.</p><p>In this video game, players battle to build their own village and launch raids on others to build more power. The game was launched a decade ago and has been downloaded more than two billion times.</p><p>For the very first time, the game is having a character (Haaland’s character) based on a real person.</p><p>Stuart McGaw, general manager of Clash of Clans said, "When we heard Haaland was a fan of our game and that he wanted to partner with us, it was really a dream scenario." </p><p>He further added that their team did everything they could to bring one of the world’s athletes into the fantasy game so that the players could enjoy a truly special moment.</p><p>The 23-year-old also posted the game’s trailer on his social media.</p>. <p>He wrote,"From the pitch to the battlefield! I'm the new Barbarian King in Clash of Clans.”</p><p>He further said, "It's been tough to keep this one quiet, but I'm excited to finally be able to talk about this epic partnership with Clash of Clans.”</p><p>"I've been a huge fan of the game for a long time and know everything about it, so to appear as an in-game character is really cool," Haaland added.</p><p>Haaland earlier had also been the cover star of EA FC 24 video game, formerly known as Fifa, apart from being featured now in Clash of Clans.</p><p>There are other recent video games and celebrity tie-ins too which include Call of Duty with Nicki Minaj and Fortnite with Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish.</p>
<p>Manchester City football star Erling Haaland is a Clash of Clans surprise character now, <em>BBC</em> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68927263?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-bbcnews&utm_content=later-42714156&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio" rel="nofollow">reported</a>. </p><p>One of the world's most popular mobile games, Clash of Clans will have an animated version of Haaland, who will become the Barbarian King in the game, developer Supercell stated.</p><p>Haaland, who himself is a huge fan of the game, said that becoming a playable character was "really cool".</p><p>The players will be able to recruit the Norwegian striker to join them, or try to ruin his village from Wednesday, the publication stated.</p><p>In this video game, players battle to build their own village and launch raids on others to build more power. The game was launched a decade ago and has been downloaded more than two billion times.</p><p>For the very first time, the game is having a character (Haaland’s character) based on a real person.</p><p>Stuart McGaw, general manager of Clash of Clans said, "When we heard Haaland was a fan of our game and that he wanted to partner with us, it was really a dream scenario." </p><p>He further added that their team did everything they could to bring one of the world’s athletes into the fantasy game so that the players could enjoy a truly special moment.</p><p>The 23-year-old also posted the game’s trailer on his social media.</p>. <p>He wrote,"From the pitch to the battlefield! I'm the new Barbarian King in Clash of Clans.”</p><p>He further said, "It's been tough to keep this one quiet, but I'm excited to finally be able to talk about this epic partnership with Clash of Clans.”</p><p>"I've been a huge fan of the game for a long time and know everything about it, so to appear as an in-game character is really cool," Haaland added.</p><p>Haaland earlier had also been the cover star of EA FC 24 video game, formerly known as Fifa, apart from being featured now in Clash of Clans.</p><p>There are other recent video games and celebrity tie-ins too which include Call of Duty with Nicki Minaj and Fortnite with Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish.</p>