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Erling Haaland<\/a> is just six away from Norway\u2019s goalscoring record, so it is surely inevitable that he will soon be his nation\u2019s most prolific striker ever.<\/p>\n On one hand, that will have happened remarkably quickly \u2013 Haaland only scored his first goals for Norway in 2020. On the other, this has been an incredibly long time coming.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n GO DEEPER<\/p>\n What is Haaland really like?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Of the 213 FIFA-affiliated nations, Norway\u2019s is the longest-standing outright individual goalscoring record in the world. It was set by Jorgen Juve, a fascinating figure who ended his international career in 1937 and later became a renowned sports journalist in his home country.<\/p>\n Juve scored a relatively modest 33 goals in 45 matches for Norway, including five hat-tricks, although his tally is made remarkable by the fact he played as a centre-forward in less than half of those games. He was otherwise positioned in defence, from where he captained his nation to the bronze medal at the 1936 Olympics. That explains why his final international goal came three years before his final cap, in June 1934. Therefore, it is likely that by the time Haaland scores six more goals, it will be around 90 years since Juve reached the 33-goal mark.<\/p>\n There is technically one other record that stands for longer, also in Scandinavia.<\/p>\n Poul \u201cTist\u201d Nielsen scored 52 goals in 38 games for Denmark between 1910 and 1925, although his record was equalled by Jon Dahl Tomasson \u2014 now manager of Blackburn Rovers<\/a> in the English Championship \u2014 in 2010. Tomasson elected to retire from international football after that year\u2019s World Cup in South Africa rather than seeking to make the record his own. Nielsen\u2019s name therefore remains in the record books, although he now holds Denmark\u2019s record only jointly.<\/p>\n This graph demonstrates the extent to which these records are outliers.<\/p>\n