Erling Haaland has confirmed what house music fans have suspected for years: the Solomun Boiler Room set from Tulum lives rent free in his head. During Norway’s training camp at the 2026 World Cup, the striker shared a clip on his Snapchat lounging with the mix playing, one more chapter in his very public love affair with a performance that came out more than a decade ago.
A Nightclub in His Head
The Snapchat clip is only the latest evidence. In an earlier video from a Norway training session, Haaland was caught singing the riff from the set before pulling it up on his phone to show the camera operator, joking that it feels like there is a nightclub in his head. Fans in the comments immediately called the track: Kollektiv Turmstrasse’s “Sorry I’m Late,” one of the defining moments of the mix.
For a player who spent June and July carrying Norway through its deepest World Cup run in generations, the routine apparently stayed the same: train, score, and put Solomun back on repeat.
Why the Solomun Boiler Room Set Refuses to Age
Recorded in January 2015 during the Diynamic takeover at Tulum in Mexico, the set became something bigger than a livestream. It is the most watched performance in Boiler Room history, with more than 70 million views on YouTube, and it keeps finding new audiences every year.
Part of the magic is the setting: golden light, a small crowd, and the Diynamic boss in total control of the groove. Part of it is pure serendipity, like the beloved moment when Solomun and his sister started dancing in perfect sync without noticing. A decade later the set works as a time capsule of melodic house at its warmest, and clips from it still flood social feeds whenever someone famous presses play. This week, that someone was the most feared striker on the planet.
From World Cup Camp to the Dancefloor
Haaland’s tournament gave the clip extra resonance. He scored seven goals in five games as Norway, playing its first World Cup in 28 years, matched the deepest run in the country’s history before falling 2 to 1 against England in the quarterfinal in Miami on July 11. Hours after the final whistle, Haaland and his teammates were spotted at Miami club E11EVEN, singing along to a live Flo Rida performance into the early morning.
His dance music credentials go beyond fandom. As DJ Mag reported, a rap track featuring Haaland climbed to number one in Norway after a Kygo remix, and he has been filmed losing it to house and techno everywhere from Ibiza to private parties. The World Cup even had its own house music soundtrack: England fans adopted ANOTR’s “Talk to You” as an unofficial anthem during the tournament, a story we covered here.
Football and House Music Keep Colliding
The crossover between elite football and electronic music keeps getting stronger. Solomun himself remains at the center of it: just last week he shared a Hï Ibiza booth with Skepta during Dom Dolla’s residency night, a summit we wrote about here. When the best footballer of his generation spends his World Cup downtime replaying a 2015 Boiler Room stream, it says everything about how far this culture has traveled.
Haaland’s World Cup is over. The set, clearly, never will be.