Eden Hazard

[Blue Armour 4,278]

3 hours ago, lucio said:

When he poked the ball from under a young man (who was pictured with tattoos , alcohol etc at the time ) and the anti Chelsea media acted like he stomped some 9 year old to death 

Hack media is still perpetuating that story.

Some journalists are truly scum of the earth.

[nyikolajevics 2,576]

Kinda sad to see these photos though.. Hazard is 33, should still be kicking around, not making ad photos with this moron he used to kick in the ass..

Willian is 3 years older than him. After an unsuccesful spell at Arsenal, spending few years at Brazil, came back to PL and - to my surprise - still good!

[bluesman2610 1,341]

1 hour ago, nyikolajevics said:

Kinda sad to see these photos though.. Hazard is 33, should still be kicking around, not making ad photos with this moron he used to kick in the ass..

Willian is 3 years older than him. After an unsuccesful spell at Arsenal, spending few years at Brazil, came back to PL and - to my surprise - still good!

Willian always had an engine and was peak fitness. Hazard the opposite 

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Eden Hazard: I’d gain five kilos before Real Madrid and Chelsea seasons

Forward, who retired at 32 after time in Spain was plagued by injuries and poor form, reveals indulgent lifestyle and how he struggled with Antonio Conte’s training

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/eden-hazard-id-gain-five-kilos-before-real-madrid-and-Chelsea-seasons-30l3cl7xw

Eden Hazard has revealed the extent of his weight problems during his playing career, admitting that he put on five kilos in pre-seasons and could not resist Belgian beer after matches.

Hazard enjoyed seven trophy-laden seasons at Chelsea, but the forward failed to reach the same heights after becoming Real Madrid’s star signing for an initial £88.3 million in 2019. Owing to a plague of injuries, Hazard played only 76 times in four seasons at Real before retiring aged 32 in October last year.

Speaking on the Obi One podcast with his former Chelsea team-mate John Obi Mikel, Hazard confirmed the widespread reports that he arrived at Real pre-season overweight when he first moved to the Spanish capital.

“It was true, but me, every summer, I was putting on four or five kilos because I was thinking you give so much for ten months, you put your body at the highest level and people kick you, so your time off is your time off,” Hazard said.

 

“Don’t ask me to do anything. I enjoy being with my family, going to the beach, so don’t ask me to run in those three or four weeks. I can play football on the beach with my kids, no problem, but don’t ask me to run.

“But if you look throughout my career, the first month [of the season] is the bit where I was thinking, ‘It’s just the beginning,’ and then from September and October I was flying, because I needed time to put my body and mind in the best way. So yes, it’s true, I came back after holidays with five kilos, I knew it.

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“I love everything with family and friends. If you ask me to eat something I’m going to eat. Even if I don’t like it, I’m going to eat. As a Belgian guy, we love beers because my country has the best beers in the world, so I’m not telling you I used to drink every day because it’s not true, but sometimes after a good game, one or two is nice.”

According to Transfermarkt, Hazard missed only 26 games for club and country through injury during his seven years at Chelsea. In four years at Real he missed 95, but the Belgian insists there is little he could have changed to hit the ground running.

“I was a bit unlucky with that period with Covid, because I went to Dallas to do surgery on my ankle then I came back to Madrid and it was Covid,” Hazard said. “I had 2½ months of Covid, me at home alone, no physio to do the rehab. I did my rehab alone. If I had to choose one thing to change I should have said to the doctor, ‘Bring a physio, I need a good rehab. I have to do [it] because I want to play at the highest level’.

“When Covid finished, I pushed my body like crazy but my ankle was not the same. We were that close to being champions so I was saying to [Zinedine] Zidane [the Real head coach], ‘I want to push, I want to go,’ and then the day we finished champions I said, ‘No, I can’t do any more, I’m finished. My body is suffering a lot so I need to do a proper rehab’. And then I break everything the season after.”

Having joined Chelsea in 2012, Hazard won two Premier League titles, one FA Cup, one League Cup, two Europa League trophies, and was the Premier League’s player of the season in 2014-15. He claims that Antonio Conte, with whom he won the Premier League in 2016-17 and FA Cup in 2018, is the manager that brought the best out of him at Stamford Bridge — but only because he enjoyed game days so much after struggling with the Italian’s tactically intense training sessions.

“I think my best time at Chelsea was with Conte,” Hazard said. “All the week, training. I was going out Saturday, I need to enjoy a little bit because I know the day after is going to be back on the training ground. I have to do something, it’s my only 90 minutes I can enjoy.

“You remember him, stopping [training], tactics, ‘No we have to do that’. Saturday was the best day for me.”

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[Vesper 28,801]

8 hours ago, Hamilton said:

 

Goalkeeper? Defender? No, we keep ball all the time, so no need.

Roflmaooooooo

[Blue Armour 4,278]

18 hours ago, Hamilton said:

 

What a personality, this guy.

 

[King Kante 1,476]

Apprantly, we have another £5m due from Real from them reaching the CL final. Talk about the gift that keeps on giving. 

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1 hour ago, King Kante said:

Apprantly, we have another £5m due from Real from them reaching the CL final. Talk about the gift that keeps on giving. 

Marina was particularly adept at extracting nearly every penny from transfer sales.

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