Eden Hazard (32) is no longer a footballer. He retired from the Red Devils at the end of last year, and this week he announced his final retirement as a professional player. Our analysts waved goodbye to him one last time after the Red Devils’ international match against Austria. “He could win the Golden Ball, but never necessarily wanted to be the best in the world.”
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127 caps, 5 major tournaments and 33 goals. The impact that Eden Hazard had on the Red Devils cannot be underestimated. Timmy Simons played with him for a while on the national team. “Eden was the best in his way. He could play an opponent out of context like no other. It is a great pity that he is stopping. I think I was mentally exhausted, partly because of all those injuries. He knew better than anyone what it was like to play at world level, so it was a shame for him not to be able to reach that level after his injuries.”
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Jan Mulder joins Simons. “I admire him enormously. Tactics do not apply to him at all, he had the class to do everything à l’improviste. Just like Cruijff at Ajax. A real world player.”
The fact that Eden Hazard was always on the field with a smile is proof for Marc Degryse that Hazard only played football for fun. “Eden has always remained himself, he didn’t want to be the best. In Russia he could become player of the tournament and perhaps even win the Golden Ball that year. It’s a shame that didn’t work out, but he didn’t want to be the best in the world either. I would have liked to see him play another 3 or 4 years. Eden was a great player with, above all, a great personality.”
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2023-10-14 08:35:21
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