{
  "id": 728960,
  "title": "Erling Haaland’s Shocking Cocaine Connection? Football Star’s Image Found On 469-Kg Drug Haul In Ecuador | Watch",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/erling-haalands-shocking-cocaine-connection-football-stars-image",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T03:25:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/sports/erling-haalands-shocking-cocaine-connection-football-stars-image-found-on-469-kg-drug-haul-in-ecuador-watch"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Quito: Norway's soccer star Erling Haaland's face has appeared on billboards, trading cards and television screens, becoming a social media phenomenon for scoring seven goals across four World Cup matches in July. Now, police in Ecuador have found it in an unexpected place -- printed on green rectangular packages that made up a stunning cocaine shipment seized in a truck near the Colombian…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}