Hazard leaves his ordeal behind

Eden Hazard (31 years old) will begin his fourth season in white on July 14. He is in the last group to be attached to the pre-season along with the players who had international commitments. But it should be noted that His time at Madrid is marked by the continuous injuries he has suffered since he arrived: he has played 66 games of the 159 in all competitions (41.50%) that the Whites have played since 2019…

very overweight. In 2019, he showed up to the preseason quite overweight: later, he admitted that he had arrived with 80 kilos…

blow to the thigh. In his first games, a blow to his thigh was detected that caused him to be out for 25 days and miss three games…

Meunier. In November 2019, an entrance of his compatriot Meunier in a Madrid-PSG open the box of thunder: Hazard suffers a bruise on his foot that turns into a fine fissure of the foot before transforming into a fissure of the fibula: in total, 143 days of absence and 18 games away. He returned in June, for the final stretch of the League and Champions League (suspended due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus). After placing an osteosynthesis plate on his right fibula in Dallas in March 2020, muscle injuries plagued him: He never felt comfortable because he had to modify his tread. He thought that this could be the origin of so many muscular problems. As an example: after missing all of February 2021, he barely played 15 minutes against Elche (March 2021) before missing another month of competition due to another muscle injury.

plate removal. Last March, two years after putting it on, Hazard went through the operating room in Madrid to remove that titanium plate. After a month of satisfactory recovery, little by little he looks looser and more and more. With Belgium he was seen recovered in the League of Nations. Now come back with a different mindset: It’s a new Eden, with a new role. And hope this time is the right one…