{"id":37768,"date":"2026-07-18T10:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/18\/how-erling-haaland-transformed-a-world-cup-dream-into-a-100-million-empire\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:08:56","slug":"how-erling-haaland-transformed-a-world-cup-dream-into-a-100-million-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/18\/how-erling-haaland-transformed-a-world-cup-dream-into-a-100-million-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"How Erling Haaland Transformed a World Cup Dream into a $100 Million Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3>The World Cup Boost<\/h3>\n<p>Between June 8 and July 16, star footballer Erling Haaland saw an incredible rise in his Instagram followers, accumulating nearly 29 million new fans. This remarkable surge was reported as the highest increase among outfield players during the World Cup. In comparison, Jude Bellingham, who also gained attention after England&#8217;s win over Norway, had less than half of Haaland&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n<p>With this surge, Haaland&#8217;s total follower count topped 69 million. Notably, during the quarterfinals and semifinals alone, he attracted an additional 12.5 million followers, showcasing his immense popularity during the tournament.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup Boost Between June 8 and July 16, star footballer Erling Haaland saw an incredible rise in his Instagram followers, accumulating nearly 29 million new fans. This remarkable surge was reported as the highest increase among outfield players during the World Cup. In comparison, Jude Bellingham, who also gained attention after England&#8217;s win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}