Eden Hazard is an attacking midfielder of Belgian origin, a player for Real Madrid and the Belgian national team. He is a graduate of the Lille academy, where he made his professional football debut in 2008. For three seasons (2010, 2011,2012) he was recognized as the best player in French Ligue 1. In June 2012, Eden joined London's Chelsea, with whom he managed to win the Europa League in his debut season. In his three debut matches for the Blues, Eden was named man of the match and received the highest ratings from coaches and fans. Since the age of 17, he has been playing in the first team of the Belgian national team, with which he reached the quarterfinals of the 2014 World Cup. Eden Hazard is a pronounced winger, his classic maneuver on the field is a sharp shift from the left flank and a smashing shot into the far corner.
- Full name: Eden Hazard
- Date and place of birth: January 7, 1991, La Louviere (Belgium)
- Role: attacking midfielder (winger)
Biography of Eden Hazard
Born in the town of La Louviere, Wallonia, in the family of professional football players Catherine and Thierry. His father was a defensive midfielder for the semi-professional club Louvieros, and his mother played top level Belgian women's football championship until she became pregnant with Eden. His parents became sports professors, and after the birth of Eden and three other brothers, they set themselves the goal of making them professional football players.
There are four brothers in the Azar family, all of whom play football professionally: the middle brother, Thorgan Azar, achieved great heights with Lens, and in 2014 signed a contract with Chelsea; the younger brothers play in the youth academies of Lille and the Belgian Tubize. . For many years, Azar has been dating a Belgian of Russian origin, Natasha. In 2010, a number of European media reported the birth of a boy to the couple.
Eden Hazard's club career
As a child, he trained in various academies of semi-professional Belgian clubs, until in 2005 his father decided to send Eden and Thorgan to the academies of French teams. At the age of 15 he joined Lille. In the next two seasons he played for the Docs reserve team in the French Amateur Championship. In November 2007, he received his first call-up to the first team, making his debut in a Ligue 1 match against Nancy.
On the eve of the 2008/09 season, a new player arrived at the French club. head coach Rudi Garcia, who called Hazard into the first team, giving him number 26. He made his debut with the new number in the match of the third round of Ligue 1 against Auxerre, in which he managed to equalize the score 6 minutes after his appearance at the end of the match. In his first season, Hazard alternated between being in the starting lineup and starting matches from the bench. Only at the end of it did Eden manage to put together a series of 12 matches as a starter, in which he scored a double against Lyon and a goal against Marseille. At the end of this season, Lille took 5th place and qualified for the Europa League, and Hazard became the best young player of the year according to football players.
First transfer rumors and rapid progress
Already on the eve of the next season, Hazard began to be matched with various European giants. Zinedine Zidane personally recommended that Real Madrid buy Hazard, but the player himself said that he would like to stay at his home club for at least one more season. New season Hazard started with two goals in two Europa League matches. In this football year Eden played important role in Lille's advance to the playoffs of the Europa League, and also scored for the first time in the Northern Derby against Lens.
However, Hazard was unable to show consistent performance, so he remained at Lille for two more seasons. In the 2010/11 season, Hazard played all 38 matches of the championship, scoring 12 goals and becoming the champion of League 1 with the Docs. Already at this time, swift passes from the flank to the center of the field and smashing attacks became the calling card of the midfielder. Hazard received the nickname “nightmare of defenders” from the club’s fans, who simply did not have time to block Hazard’s shots.
A major note and a move to Stamford Bridge
Contrary to the logic of European football, Hazard remained at Lille for another season. This time he again played in all 38 championship matches, scoring 18 goals. This time Lille failed to take the championship title, but this did not affect Hazard’s value and ambitions. In the summer of 2012, Hazard quietly moved to Chelsea in London. In his debut season, he managed to score a number of important goals against Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal.
In the second season he became a real leader of Chelsea, being the most stable player in the London team under Jose Mourinho. Hazard played 49 matches for the Blues, scoring 17 goals. For this he was awarded the title of Chelsea Player of the Year and Best young player English Premier League. In the summer of 2014, there were many rumors about Hazard's transfer to Real Madrid or Catalan Barcelona, but Mourinho said that if he sold the player, it would be for no less than 120 million euros. The next season for the footballer became even better; in 38 matches in the Premier League he scored 14 goals and gave 10 assists, and Chelsea became the national champion. But the 2015/16 season was unsuccessful for the player, as well as for the club in general. In 31 matches, Hazard scored only 4 goals and made 4 assists. As a result, Mourinho left the team, and Antonio Conte took his place in the summer. The Belgian returned to his level again and became a key figure in the team, scoring 9 goals and giving 3 assists over 17 games in the first half of the 2016/17 season.
In his last year at Chelsea, Hazard managed to win another trophy - he won the Europa League. Thus, in seven years in London, the Belgian won six cups, including two English Championships, two Europa Leagues, an FA Cup and a League Cup.
Transfer to Real Madrid
On June 8, 2019, Real Madrid announced the signing of Chelsea striker Eden Hazard for 100 million euros excluding bonuses. Additional payments to the “aristocrats” could amount to another 67 million euros. The Belgian winger signed with " royal club» long-term contract until the summer of 2024.
According to Spanish media, Hazard will earn 11 million euros a year at Real Madrid, and took a salary cut, which at Chelsea was 11.5 - 13 million euros.
Eden Hazard's international career
At the age of 16 years and 21 days, he received a call to the Belgian youth team, with which he reached the semi-finals of the 2007 European Championship. At the age of 17, he made his debut for the first team of the Red Devils, coming on as a substitute in a match against Luxembourg. He scored his debut goal only 3 years later in qualifying match for the 2012 European Championship, where the Belgians did not qualify.
He scored two goals against the Macedonian national team during the 2014 World Cup qualifying round. Hazard was the main star of the “golden generation” of the Belgian national team, which went to the world championship in Brazil. However, Eden did not remember anything at the tournament, despite the fact that he played all the matches for the Red Devils, including the quarter-finals against the Argentines, lost with a score of 1-0. The footballer also made it to Euro 2016 with the team, where he played 5 matches and scored one goal. The Belgian team reached the quarter finals, where they lost to Wales.
Achievements of Eden Hazard
- League Champion: 1 2011
- Winner of the French Cup 2011
- Champion of England: 2014/15, 2016/17
- League Cup Winner: 2014/15
- UEFA Europa League winner: 2013, 2019
- FA Cup 2017/18
- Member of the symbolic team of the French Ligue 1: 2010, 2011, 2012
- French Ligue 1 Player of the Month: March 2010, March 2011, March 2012, April 2012
- Winner of the Bravo trophy: 2011
- Member of the symbolic team of the Premier League according to the PFA: 2013
- PFA Young Player of the Year: 2014
- Chelsea Player of the Year: 2014
- Known for his involvement in the incident with the Swansea City “ball boy”, who tried to stall for time during the League Cup semi-final, for which he received a blow to the ribs from the player. Swansea reached the final in that competition and won their first ever trophy.
Hazard started playing football at the age of 4, in the Royal Stade Brainois team. Even in those days, coaches unanimously noted that Eden’s abilities were at least extraordinary. After 8 years, the boy moved to "Tubize"; It was at one of the "Tubize" matches that he was noticed by a talent agent at the "Lille" club. His report convinced superiors to contact Azar's parents; They liked the proposal - they believed, not without reason, that in France their son could be trained at a much higher level.
Hazard moved to Lille in 2005; He studied at a local sports school for two years, after which he signed his first three-year contract. At the beginning of the 2007-2008 season, Hazard was listed in the club's reserve team; He entered the field for the first time on September 1, 2007, in the second half of the match.
During the season, Hazard was brought onto the field several times in the club’s “adult” team, but formally Eden was listed among the amateurs. In total, during his amateur career, Hazard entered the field 11 times and scored 1 goal.
The following season, Hazard entered the main team, but appeared on the field mainly as a substitute. One of his most successful such exits took place on September 20. Lille lost to Auxerre 2-1; In the 88th minute of the match, Eden, however, managed to equalize the score with an incredible strike. This unexpected goal inspired his teammates; The match ended with a score of 3-2 - the third goal was scored in extra time. With his first “adult” goal, Hazard set a kind of club record - in such at a young age None of the Lille players have scored goals yet. Eden was offered a contract extension and began to include him in the starting lineup more often. At the end of the season, Hazard was recognized as Young Player of the Year by the National Union of Professional Footballers; Before Eden, this award had not yet been given to foreigners.
Agents from other clubs became interested in the talented player, but Lille did not want to part with Hazard. Hazard, meanwhile, scored his first goal of the season in the first match - against the Serbian club FK Sevojno. Eden did not slow down in the future; his play helped the club gain a foothold in the league (although it did not save it from relegation from two variations of the French championship at once). At the end of the season, Hazard again received the National Union of Professional Footballers' Young Player Award, becoming the first to be awarded the award twice, and nearly won the Player of the Year award.
Hazard's start to the next season was a little off; at a certain stage he was even taken out of starting lineup. Coaches reproached him for not taking his training seriously enough and for general laziness.
Ultimately, Azar did straighten out the situation - at the end of the year, the NSPF even awarded him the title " Best Player first league" ("Ligue 1 Player of the Year"); Eden became the youngest of those who have ever received this award.
In May 2012 - after another quite decent season - Hazard announced his move to Chelsea. For the first time on the field as part of new team Eden Hazard was released on July 18th.
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Eden Hazard is a Belgian footballer who plays as a midfielder for the English club Chelsea and the Belgian national team. Hazard became famous for his creative approach to the game, lightning speed and supreme skill. Football commentators have established the player as a "fearless, explosive attacking midfielder who can change the course of a game with a single pass." The Belgian was also nicknamed the “nightmare of defenders” for his tough and unpredictable style of play.
Childhood and youth
The athlete was born in the Belgian province of Hainaut, located in the Walloon region, where the main language of communication was French. But only Eden’s early childhood years passed in the city of La Louviere: the football player grew up in another Walloon town - Braine-le-Comté, 20,000 inhabitants.
In the veins of four sons - Eden has brothers Torgan, Kilian and Ethan - the Belgian blood of his father and African mother flows: Catherine Hazard is from Morocco. Eden also chose his mother’s Islam as his religion.
The sons of the Hazard family, it seems, had no choice but to become footballers. Both parents dedicated their lives to this sport. His father, Thierry Hazard, devoted most of his sports career to the Louvieros club, where he played as a defensive midfielder. He played in the Belgian second division, and his wife Catherine was a striker in the first.
Complete sports career Catherine was three months pregnant with her first child, Eden. Thierry left the football field in 2009 - four offspring and a spouse demanded the attention and care of the head of the family. Today, Eden Hazard's parents are sports mentors.
The Hazard family lived very close to the stadium. According to Eden, the home was located three meters from the field, and could be reached through a hole in the fence. The sons were kicking the ball as soon as they learned to walk. It’s no wonder that all of Hazard’s offspring became football players. Torgan played in Lens, Kilian in Lille, Ethan remained in Belgium - he was accepted into Tubiz, where he developed sports biography Eden's older brother.
Eden Hazard took his first steps in football at the age of 4 at the Royal Stade Brainois club. After 8 years, the gifted player was taken to Tubiz. Even then, midfielder Hazard was classified as a winger - the name given to wide midfielders who play closer to the sideline.
Football
At a local tournament, a 14-year-old player from Tubiz was noticed by a French scout professional club"Lille". The management invited Eden's father to a meeting at which the parties discussed a youth contract. Catherine and Thierry agreed to their son's transfer because they considered the Belgian system of training football players less professional. Territorial proximity also played a role.
So in 2005, Eden Hazard entered the first league sports school, after which he continued his studies at the Lille academy. In 2007, the Belgian signed a three-year contract with the French club. A year later, Eden Hazard already played for the main team of Lille, making his debut in a match against the Sochaux team.
The midfielder scored his first goal against Auxerre, and in November 2008 he signed a new contract for 3 years at better conditions. Soon Eden Hazard football commentators and the club’s fans called him the most promising player in the world - the footballer’s progress in a matter of years turned out to be rapid. At Lille, Hazard became the team leader.
In 2012, the giants fought in the fight for the midfielder English football: Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, Spanish Barca and Real Madrid, for whom the nationality of the midfielder did not matter, professionalism was at the forefront.
In the summer of 2012, Eden Hazard decided on the choice of clubs competing for him: he announced that he would leave for the leader of the Champions League. The winner was London's Chelsea, and Hazard signed a multi-year contract with the club. For the transfer of player No. 10, the French Lille received 30 million pounds sterling. In the new team, Eden changed his number to 17.
The brilliant winger's debut at Chelsea took place at the end of the summer of 2012: in August the team played Manchester City in the English Super Cup match, but were defeated with a score of 3:2. But in the domestic championship, in the first match, Eden Hazard earned a penalty, which was successfully converted by Frank Lampard, and scored an assist on .
The midfielder scored his debut goal from the penalty spot on the tour against Newcastle. In his first season with the club, the Belgian became a Chelsea star: with the help of Hazard, the team won the Europa League. The following year the footballer became top scorer team, but Chelsea remained without trophies in the English Premier League. Eden Hazard was named the best young player in the Premier League.
In the 2013/2014 season, Hazard played under the leadership: the midfielder became a key figure in the team from the first meetings. Hopes were pinned on Eden as the most promising player. In 2013, the winger won the Europa League with the Blues. The midfielder was named the team's player of the year at the end of the season.
In 2014, rumors flared up about Eden Hazard returning to France, but this did not happen. The midfielder still plays for Chelsea and plays for the Belgium national team. The football player's height is 1.73 m.
The winger's club statistics for February 2018 are 85 goals in 283 Chelsea games.
Personal life
The football player is active on social networks and regularly pleases fans latest photos V "Instagram", whose number of subscribers is in the millions. But the photographs are of a professional nature - Eden does not talk about his personal life.
Rumor has it that Azar has a happy and strong family. Spouse football star became not a model, actress or singer, like most of her colleagues, but an ordinary girl named Natasha Van Honecker. The athlete took the young Belgian beauty as his wife as soon as she graduated from school. The romance has stood the test of time: Eden Hazard met his beloved at the age of 14.
The young wife left Belgium and moved to Eden in France. In December 2010, Natasha gave birth to her husband’s first child, who was named Janis. After 2 years, the spouses who lived in a civil marriage legalized their relationship. Today, three sons are growing up in the family: the eldest Janis has two brothers - Leo and Samri.
Natasha avoids publicity and keeps a low profile famous husband. Spouses rarely appear at social events. Natasha Azar raises the children of a star football player and provides home comfort. This is not so difficult to do, because the Chelsea midfielder’s fortune has reached $13 million.
Eden Hazard now
According to the new contract, which the midfielder signed until 2020, his salary per week increased to a record €340 thousand. Today, the Belgian is the highest paid football player in the English Premier League.
In the 2017/2018 Premier League season, the midfielder played most of the matches for Chelsea. At the end of the season, there is more and more talk about the player moving to Real Madrid. Journalists compared Hazard with and, but Eden refused analogies with famous forwards, saying that he did not live up to the level of the stars.
Awards (team)
- 2010/11 – French champion: Lille
- 2011 – French Cup winner: Lille
- 2014/15, 2016/17 – Champion of England (2): Chelsea
- 2015 – League Cup winner: Chelsea
- 2013 – UEFA Europa League winner: Chelsea
Awards (personal)
- 2009, 2010 – Young player of the year in France according to the NSPF
- 2011, 2012 – Player of the Year in France according to the NSPF
- 2011 – Winner of the Bravo trophy
- 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 – PFA Team of the Year
- 2014 – PFA Young Player of the Year
- 2014, 2015, 2017 – Chelsea Fans' Player of the Year
- 2015 – Chelsea Player of the Year
- 2015 – PFA Player of the Year
- 2015 – AFJ Player of the Year
- 2015 – English Premier League Player of the Season
- 2016 – Best assistant at the European Championship (together with Aaron Ramsey)
- 2016 – English Premier League Player of the Month
- 2017 – UEFA Team of the Year
- 2017 – Best Footballer Belgium
Eden Hazard was born on January 7, 1991 in La Louviere, but grew up in a small town called Braine-le-Comté, located in Wallonia. The midfielder's father is Belgian, and his mother is a native of Morocco, so Eden Hazard is Muslim by religion. Eden's father was a semi-professional footballer playing for the La Louviere club, while the future midfielder's mother played in the top Belgian women's division as a striker. Eden has three brothers, Thorgan, Kilian and Ethan, who are also professional footballers.
Club career
Hazard's professional career began in Belgium in 1995. The midfielder's first club was Royal Stade Brainua, and in 2003 he moved to Tubiz, whose student he is considered to be. It was in this club that the young talent, at the age of 14, managed to make himself known: scouts of the French Lille noticed his dribbling, speed and creativity Belgian football player, as a result of which in 2005 Hazard began studying at the sports school of a team from Ligue 1. After graduating sports school The young talent continued his studies at the Lille academy.
Already in 2007, Hazard signed a professional contract with the French team for a three-year period. The player began playing for the main team of Lille in 2008, and his professional debut for the team took place in September of this year in a match against Sochaux. Eden scored his first goal for his French team shortly after his own debut in the match against Auxerre. Already in November 2008, the midfielder signed a new three-year contract with his club on improved terms.
Gradually improving and improving his skills, the football player began to be considered one of the most promising players in the whole world. Eden’s progress over the years turned out to be simply meteoric - in just a few years, he managed to become one of the team leaders from an unknown player in Lille’s reserve team, so it is not at all surprising that in 2012 a real struggle unfolded for the midfielder.
Move to Chelsea
Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United - all these giants of English football wanted Eden Hazard to join their ranks. The nationality of this player was not as important to the teams as his professional qualities. Eden either praised the attacking power of Manchester City or hinted that he would continue his career with the Red Devils. However, neither one nor the other happened, and as a result, the talented Belgian announced at the end of May 2012 that he would leave for the winners of the Champions League, and that was none other than the London Chelsea.
At the beginning of July of the same year, Eden Hazard completed his transition to the London team by signing a multi-year contract with Chelsea. Chelsea had to shell out more than £30 million for the transfer of the talented Belgian. At Lille, Hazard wore number 10, but at Chelsea he had to choose number 17, since Juan Mata was number ten at the London club at that time.
The talented winger made his debut for his new club in August 2012 in the English Super Cup match, but his team suffered a disappointing defeat to Manchester City with a score of 3:2. In the English domestic championship, the footballer made his debut in the first match, earning a penalty, which Frank Lampard converted without problems, and providing an assist to Branislav Ivanovic. In the next round against Newcastle, the Belgian scored his first goal for the team from the penalty spot.
In his first season for Chelsea, Hazard managed to win the Europa League and become one of the leaders of his club. In the next year's campaign, the Belgian improved noticeably and became Chelsea's top scorer in the Premier League, but the team failed to win a single trophy this season. But Hazard was recognized as the best young player English Premier Leagues.
After being eliminated by Atlético Madrid in the semi-finals of the 2014 Champions League, rumors intensified that Eden Hazard could return to France and join the ranks of the capital's PSG. The wife of the Belgian midfielder is also in favor of returning to France.
The winger's club statistics for February 2018 are 85 goals in 283 Chelsea games.
Belgium national team
Hazard has represented Belgium internationally, starting with the under-15 team. As a member of the Belgian youth team, he reached the semi-finals at home championship European Under-17 Championship in 2007 and was last in the group at the same year's World Championships in the same age category.
On November 19, 2008, at the age of 17 years and 316 days, Eden made his debut in the main team in friendly match v. Luxembourg. On October 7, 2011, he scored his first goal in a match against Kazakhstan in qualifying match European Championship 2012, where the Belgian team ultimately failed to make it.
When playing on the sideline, he has the opportunity to walk along it, after which he can make through passes and crosses into the penalty area for his teammates, or he can move to the center himself and strike at the opponent’s goal. Very often in the media, coaches and players compare Hazard with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo
Achievements
Team
« Lille»
- French Champion: 2010/11
- French Cup winner: 2011
« Chelsea»
- Champion of England: 2014/15, 2016/17
- Cup Winner Football League: 2015
- UEFA Europa League winner: 2013
Personal life of Eden Hazard
As for the personal life of the young Chelsea star, a certain mystery should be noted. Azar is not a public person at all. He devotes more time to his family than to noisy parties or other social events.
Eden has a loving wife, Natasha. Interesting fact is that Natasha is his first and only girlfriend. They have known each other since childhood and started dating at the age of 14. Natasha Azar is an ordinary simple girl, and when Eden moved to France, she graduated from school and went to her beloved.
Now, the young Belgian couple has two children. The eldest son, Janis, was born back in 2010, when Eden was playing in France (in the 2010-2011 season he became the French champion with Lille).
Associated with the birth of the youngest son interesting story. Little Leo Hazard was born in mid-January last year. The birth of Eden's second child almost coincided with an unpleasant incident involving a boy who served balls in a match against Swansea. It is quite possible that because of this scandal, even the British press did not know that Yanis Hazard had a younger brother.
Leo Hazard (after Lionel Messi?) has dual (British and Belgian) citizenship. Interestingly, Leo is actually a popular name among Chelsea players. Fernando Torres and Gary Cahill also have sons named Leo.
By the way, with his new son, Eden Hazard continued the family tradition when only boys are born in the family. Maybe this is for the best, because as mentioned above, the entire Hazard family has football genes, and we hope that Leo, too, will one day shine on the football field, like his father and even better.
We all knew Hazard as a talented football player, and now we also got to know him from a different side. The Belgian is a true family man who loves his wife and children, but still he remains a professional and is constantly improving. Eden is the best dribbler English Premier League and one of the most useful players on the team.
