Football player Azar Eden. World-class winger with excellent technique

Eden Hazard was born on January 7, 1991 in La Louviere, but grew up in a small town called Brenne-le-Comte, located in Wallonia. The midfielder's father is Belgian, and his mother is a native of Morocco, therefore, by religion, Eden Hazard is a Muslim. Eden's father was a semi-professional footballer playing for club La Louviere, while the mother of the future midfielder played in the top Belgian women's division as a striker. Eden has three brothers - Torgan, Kilian and Ethan, who are also professional footballers.

Club career

Azar's professional career began in Belgium in 1995. The first club of the midfielder was Royal Stud Brainua, and in 2003 he moved to Tubize, of which he is considered a graduate. It was in this club that the young talent at the age of 14 managed to make himself known: the scouts of the French Lille noticed the dribbling, speed and creativity of the Belgian footballer, as a result of which in 2005 Hazard began to study at the sports school of the team from Ligue 1. After graduating from 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 term. The player started playing for the main team of Lille already in 2008, and his professional debut for the team took place in September this year in a duel against Sochaux. Eden scored his first goal for his French side shortly after his own debut 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 footballer began to be considered one of the most promising players in the whole world. Eden's progress over the years turned out to be just meteoric - in just a few years he managed to become one of the team leaders from an unknown Lille double player, so it is not at all surprising that in 2012 a real struggle unfolded for the midfielder.

Moving 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 for the teams was not as important as his professional qualities. Eden sometimes praised the attacking power of Manchester City, then hinted that he would continue his career with the Red Devils. However, neither the one nor the other happened, and as a result, the talented Belgian at the end of May 2012 announced that he would go to the winners of the Champions League, and they were none other than London's Chelsea.

In early July of the same year, Eden Hazard completed his move to the location of the London team, signing a multi-year contract with Chelsea. For the transfer of the talented Belgian Chelsea had to shell out more than 30 million pounds sterling. In "Lille" Hazard played at number "10", but in Chelsea he had to choose "17", since the "ten" in the London club at that time was Juan Mata.

As part of his new club, the talented winger made his debut in August 2012 in the match for the English Super Cup, but his team suffered a disappointing 3-2 defeat to Manchester City. In the domestic championship of England, the footballer made his debut in the first match, earning a penalty, which Frank Lampard realized without any problems, and giving 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, Azar managed to win the Europa League and become one of the leaders of his club. In the following year's campaign, the Belgian has significantly improved and became the top scorer of Chelsea in the Premier League, but the team has not been able to win a single trophy this season. But Azar was named the best young player in the English Premier League.

After relegation from Atletico Madrid in the 2014 Champions League semi-finals, rumors intensified that Eden Hazard might return to France and join the ranks of Paris Saint-Germain. The wife of the Belgian midfielder is also in favor of returning to France.

The winger's club record as of February 2018 is 85 goals in 283 Chelsea games.

Belgium squad

Hazard has represented Belgium on the international stage, starting with the national team up to 15 years old. As part of the Belgium youth team, he reached the semifinals at the 2007 European Under-17 Championship at home and was the last in the group at the World Championship of the same year in the same age category.

On November 19, 2008, at the age of 17 years and 316 days, Eden made his debut for the main team in a friendly against Luxembourg. On October 7, 2011, he scored his first goal in the match against Kazakhstan in the qualifying match for the 2012 European Championship, which the Belgian national team ultimately failed to break through.

Playing on the edge, he has the opportunity to walk along it, after which he can make through passes and crossings into the penalty area to his partners, or he can move to the center himself and strike at the opponent's goal. Very often in the media, coaches and players compare Azar with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

Achievements

Team

« Lille»

Champion of France: 2010/11
French Cup Winner: 2011

« Chelsea»

Champion of England: 2014/15, 2016/17
Football League Cup Winner: 2015
UEFA Europa League winner: 2013

Eden Azar's personal life

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. An interesting fact is that Natasha is his first and only girlfriend. They have known each other since childhood, and began dating at the age of 14. Natasha Hazard is an ordinary simple girl, and when Eden moved to France, she finished school and went to her beloved.

Now, the young Belgian couple have two children. The eldest son Janis was born back in 2010, when Eden played in France (in the 2010-2011 season he became the champion of France with Lille).

An interesting story is connected with the birth of the youngest son. 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 serving balls against Swansea. It is possible that because of this scandal, even the British press did not know that Janis Azar 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 whole Azar family has football genes, and we hope that Leo will also once shine on the football field, like his father and even better.

We all knew Azar as a talented football player, and now we also recognized him from the other side. The Belgian is a real family man who loves his wife and children, but still he remains a professional and is constantly improving. Eden is the best dribbler in the English Premier League and one of the team's most helpful players.

Eden Hazard is a Belgian-born attacking midfielder who plays for Real Madrid and Belgium. He is a graduate of the Lille Academy, with which he made his professional football debut in 2008. For three seasons (2010, 2011,2012) he was recognized as the best player in the French League 1. In June 2012, Eden joined Chelsea London, with which he managed to win the Europa League in his debut season. In his three debut matches for the Blues, Eden was named the best player 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 blow into the far corner.

Full name: Eden Hazard
Date and place of birth: January 7, 1991, La Louvière (Belgium)
Role: attacking midfielder (winger)

Biography of Eden Hazar

Born in La Louviere, Wallonia, into a family of professional footballers Catherine and Thierry. His father was a defensive midfielder at the semi-professional club Louvieros, and his mother played at the highest level of the 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 footballers.

The Azar family has four brothers, all play football professionally: the middle brother, Torgan 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 Natasha, a Belgian of Russian origin. In 2010, a number of European media outlets reported on the couple's birth of a boy.

Eden Azar'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 academy of French teams. At the age of 15 he joined Lille. In the next two seasons he played for the docks reserve team in the French Amateur Championship. In November 2007 he received his first call to the first team, making his debut in the Ligue 1 match against Nancy.

On the eve of the 2008/09 season, a new head coach, Rudy Garcia, came to the camp of the French club, who called Azar into the first team, giving him number 26. He made his debut with a new number in the match of the third round of Ligue 1 against Auxerre, in which he managed to equalize 6 minutes after his release at the end of the meeting. In the first season, Hazard alternately got into the main team or started the match from the bench. Only in its ending did Eden manage to play a series of 12 matches in the starting line, 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 footballers.

First transfer rumors and rapid progress

Already on the eve of the next season, Azar began to be wooed into various European grandees. Zinedine Zidane personally recommended Real Madrid to buy Azar, but the player himself said that he would like to stay at his home club for at least one more season. Hazard started the new season with two goals in two matches of the Europa League. Eden played an important role in Lille's advance to the Europa League playoffs this football year, and also scored for the first time in the Northern Derby against Lens.

However, Hazard failed to show a stable game, so he stayed at Lille for two more seasons. In the 2010/11 season, Azar played all 38 league matches, scoring 12 goals and becoming the champion of League 1 with the Docks. Already at this time, the midfielder's hallmark was swift flanks into the center of the field and striking blows. Azar was nicknamed "the nightmare of defenders" from the fans of the club, who simply did not have time to block Azar's strikes.

High note and move to Stamford Bridge

Contrary to the logic of European football, Hazard stayed at Lille for one more season. This time, he again played in all 38 league matches, scoring 18 goals. This time "Lille" did not manage to take the champion title, but this did not affect the cost and ambitions of Azar himself. In the summer of 2012, Hazard quietly moved to Chelsea 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 the real leader of Chelsea, being the most stable player in the London team under Jose Mourinho. Hazard made 49 appearances for the Blues, scoring 17 goals. For this he was named Chelsea Player of the Year and Best Young Player in the English Premier League. In the summer of 2014, there were many rumors about Azar's transfer to the camp of Real Madrid or Catalan Barcelona, but Mourinho said that if he sold the player, it would be no less than 120 million euros. The next season became even better for the footballer, in 38 Premier League games he scored 14 goals and gave 10 assists, and Chelsea became the champion of the country. But the 2015/16 season for the player, as well as for the club in general, turned out to be unsuccessful. In 31 matches, Hazard scored only 4 goals and made 4 assists. As a result, Mourinho left the team, and Antonio Conte came in his place in the summer. The Belgian returned to his level and became a key figure in the team, in the first half of the 2016/17 season he scored 9 goals and provided 3 assists in 17 games.

In the 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, the FA Cup and the Football League Cup.

Transfer to Real Madrid

On 8 June 2019, Real Madrid announced the signing of Chelsea striker Eden Azar for € 100 million excluding bonuses. Additional payments to "aristocrats" may amount to another 67 million euros. The Belgian winger has signed a long-term contract with the Royal Club until the summer of 2024.

According to the Spanish media, Hazard will earn 11 million euros a year at Real Madrid, and went on to lower his salary, which in Chelsea was 11.5-13 million euros.

Eden Hazar's international career

At the age of 16 years and 21 days, he was called up to the youth team of Belgium, with which he reached the semifinals of the 2007 European Championship. At the age of 17, he made his debut in the first team of the "Red Devils", coming on as a substitute in the match against Luxembourg. He scored his debut goal only 3 years later in the qualifying match for the 2012 European Championship, where the Belgians did not make it.

Scored two goals against the Macedonian national team in 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 quarterfinals against the Argentines, lost 1-0. Also, the footballer, together with the team, made it to Euro 2016, where he played 5 matches and scored one goal. The Belgian national team reached the quarter-finals, where they lost to Wales.

Achievements of Eden Hazar

League Champion: 1 2011
French Cup Winner 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 PFA symbolic team of the Premier League: 2013
PFA Young Player of the Year: 2014
Chelsea Player of the Year: 2014

Known for participating in the Swansea City ball-boy incident, which tried to drag out time during the League Cup semi-finals, for which he received a kick from the player in the ribs. Swansea reached the final in that rally and won their first ever trophy.

Promising footballers, as practice shows, do not always become world stars. Those on whom high hopes are pinned often do not justify the confidence placed in them due to the burden of responsibility and pressure exerted on this or that football player by the press, fans, and the coach. But Eden Hazard is not one of those players who will give up. At 23, this winger is gradually becoming a global star.

Eden Hazard. Biography

Career start and transfer to Lille

Moving 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 for the teams was not as important as his Eden praised the attacking power of Manchester City, then 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 at the end of May 2012 announced that he would go to the winners of the Champions League, and they were none other than London's Chelsea.

As part of his new club, the talented winger made his debut in August 2012 in the match for the English Super Cup, but his team suffered a disappointing 3-2 defeat to Manchester City. In the English Premier League, the footballer made his debut in the first match, earning a penalty, which Frank Lampard converted without any problems, and giving an assist to the Belgian. In the next round against Newcastle, the Belgian scored his first goal for the team from the penalty spot.

International career

Since 2007, Eden has played for the Belgium national team. As part of the youth team in 2007, he managed to reach the semifinals of the European home championship. Initially, he was actively called up to the ranks of the youth team, and after a while he moved to a more adult level and helped his team to pass the qualifying round for the World Cup. In the summer of 2014, the Belgian will defend the colors of his own national team at the upcoming World Championship, which will be held in Brazil.

Achievements

Despite his relatively small age, the footballer is the owner of a number of both individual and team awards. Among the team achievements of a football player, the following are worth highlighting:

More individual awards:

the best young player in France in 2009 and 2010;
the best player in France in 2011 and 2012;
was in the symbolic team of Ligue 1 in 2010, 2011, as well as in 2012;
winner of the Bravo trophy in 2011;
four-time player of the month in Ligue 1;
entered the Premier League team of the year in 2013;
best young player in the Premier League 2013/2014.

Personal life

Azar is in a relationship with a girl named Natasha, from whom a son was born to the midfielder in 2010. The midfielder is also active on social networks, and in most of his photos Eden Hazard is captured together with his teammates - Oscar, David Luiz, Ramirez and others.

Be that as it may, Eden Hazard is just beginning his stellar journey, and it is likely that soon the most talented Belgian will be able to surpass such world legends as Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. The main thing is not to stop giving all of yourself for the good of the team and to constantly improve.

Eden Hazar's football life is only gaining momentum. The Belgian and London Chelsea player has the potential to rank with the best footballers in the world. It is about the talented midfielder that we will talk about in this article.

Footballer Eden Hazard was born in 1991 in the Belgian city of La Louviere, and the first steps in his career he took in the Royal Stade Brainouis team from Brennes-le-Comte. Then he played for 2 years for Tubize, where he was noticed by scouts from the French club Lille. In 2005 he moved to France, where Eden Azar's real professional career began.

For Lille, the attacking midfielder spent 5 seasons in which he played almost 200 matches and scored 50 goals. The most successful season was 2010/2011, when “Lille won both the championship gold and the French Cup.

Eden Hazard's transfer to Chelsea marked the beginning of a new era for the Belgian midfielder. On August 12, 2012, the Belgian national football player played his first match with the Londoners. It was at Chelsea that Eden Hazard went down in the history of the English Premier League as the player who was recognized as the best in the three starting rounds of the championship.

And in the 2013-2014 season, Eden was named the best young player in the Premier League. In total, he played 49 matches in all tournaments for the Blues and scored 17 goals.

If we talk about the biography of Eden Hazar, especially his period in London, then one cannot but recall the unpleasant incident that occurred in the 1/2 League Cup match against Swansea.

This match was going very badly for the “aristocrats”, the team was losing, and the players were nervous. And at the end of the fight, Eden Hazard hit the boy who serves the balls. This episode came as a real shock to the fans of the player, but, fortunately, it was resolved more or less successfully.

O we have already talked about in another article. But I would like to once again note the love for the sport of the whole family of the Chelsea footballer. And the brother of Eden Azar, younger by 2 years, shows great promise in football. Thorgan Hazard currently plays for Zulte-Waregem in Belgium, but the rights to him are held by London's Chelsea. In the 2012-2013 season, he was named the best player in the Belgian Pro League and the best football player of the year in Belgium. Judging by such success, Torgan Hazard and Eden Hazard will soon appear together on not only in the English TOP-club, but also in the Belgian national team.

According to Wikipedia, the height and weight of Eden Azar are rather insignificant: 170 cm and 69 kg, but if we take into account his skills and abilities, then small growth is leveled out on the football field. It should also be noted that some people misread his last name Eden Hazard as: Eden Hazard. In fact, the first and last letter in Hazard is unreadable.

Eden Hazard is a Belgian footballer, midfielder of the English club Chelsea and the Belgian national team. Azar became famous for his creative approach to the game, lightning speed and the highest skill. Football commentators have cemented the player's reputation as "a fearless, explosive attacking midfielder who can change the course of the game with a single pass." The Belgian was also nicknamed the "Defenders' Nightmare" 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 in the city of La Louvière, only Eden's early childhood years passed: a football player grew up in another town of Wallonia - the 20-thousandth Bren-le-Comte.

In the veins of four sons - Eden has brothers Torgan, Kilian and Ethan - the Belgian blood of his father and African mother flows: Katrin Hazard is from Morocco. Eden also chose Islam as his religion.

The sons of the Azar family, it seems, had no other choice but to become football players. Both parents have dedicated their lives to this sport. Father - Thierry Hazard - gave most of his sports career to the club "Louvieros", where he played as a defensive midfielder. He played in the second division of Belgium, and his wife Catherine was a striker in the first.

Catherine had to end her sports career in the third month of pregnancy, when she was carrying her first child, Eden. Thierry left the football field in 2009 - four offspring and his wife demanded the attention and care of the head of the family. Today Eden Azar's parents are sports mentors.

The Azar family lived in the immediate vicinity of the stadium. According to Eden, the dwelling was located three meters from the field, and it was possible to get on it through a hole in the fence. Sons chased the ball, barely learning how to walk. It is no wonder that all the offspring of Hazard became footballers. Thorgan played in Lance, Kilian in Lille, Ethan stayed in Belgium - he was admitted to Tubize, where the sports biography of Eden's older brother developed.

Eden Hazard made his first steps in football at the age of 4 at the Royal Stud Brainouis. After 8 years, the gifted player was taken to Tubiz. Even then, midfielder Azar was classified as a winger - this is the name for flanking midfielders who play closer to the sideline.

Football

At a local tournament, a 14-year-old player from Tubiz was noticed by a scout of the French professional club Lille. The management invited Eden's father to a meeting at which the parties negotiated a youth contract. Catherine and Thierry agreed to the transfer of their son, as they considered the Belgian system of training football players less professional. Territorial proximity also played a role.

So in 2005, Eden Hazard entered the sports school of the first league, 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 duel against the Sochaux team.

The midfielder scored the first goal against Auxerre, and in November 2008 signed a new contract for 3 years on better terms. Soon, Eden Azar was called the most promising player in the world by football commentators and fans of the club - the progress of a football player in a few years turned out to be rapid. At Lille, Hazard became the team leader.

In 2012, the giants of English football fought for the midfielder: Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, Spanish Barça and Real Madrid, for which 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 go to the leader of the Champions League. The winner was Chelsea London and Hazard signed a multi-year contract with the club. For the transfer of player # 10, the French "Lille" received 30 million pounds sterling. In the new team, Eden changed his number to 17th.

The brilliant winger made his debut at Chelsea in late summer 2012: in August, the team faced off against Manchester City in the FA Super Cup, but were defeated 3-2. But in the domestic championship of the country, in the very first match, Eden Hazard earned a penalty, which was successfully implemented by Frank Lampard, and scored an assist on.

The midfielder scored his debut goal from the penalty spot in the round against Newcastle. In his first season for the club, the Belgian became the star of Chelsea: with the help of Azar, the team won the Europa League. The following year, the footballer became the team's top scorer, but Chelsea was left without any trophies in the English Premier League. Eden Azar was named the best young player in the Premier League.

In the 2013/2014 season, Azar played under the command: the midfielder from the first meetings became a key figure in the team. Hopes were pinned on Eden as the most promising player. In 2013, the winger won the Europa League in the Blues' camp. The midfielder was named the team's player of the year at the end of the season.

In 2014, rumors broke out about the return of Eden Azar to France, but this did not happen. The midfielder continues to play for Chelsea and for Belgium. The height of a football player is 1.73 m.

The winger's club record as of February 2018 is 85 goals in 283 Chelsea games.

Personal life

The footballer is active in social networks and regularly pleases fans with fresh photos on Instagram, which has millions of subscribers. But the pictures are of a professional nature - Eden does not cover his personal life.

Rumor has it that Azar has a happy and strong family. The wife of a football star was 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 novel 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 given the name Janis. After 2 years, the spouses, who lived in a civil marriage, legalized the relationship. Today, three sons are growing up in the family: the eldest Janis has two brothers - Leo and Samri.

Natasha avoids publicity and keeps in the shadow of her famous husband. Spouses rarely appear at social events. Natasha Azar brings up the children of a star football player and provides home comfort. This is not too difficult to do, since the Chelsea midfielder's fortune has reached $ 13 million.

Eden Hazard now

Under a new contract, which the midfielder signed until 2020, his salary rose to a record € 340,000 in a week. Today, the Belgian is the highest paid football player in the English Premier League.

The midfielder has played most of his appearances for Chelsea in the 2017/2018 Premier League season. At the end of the season, there is more and more talk about the player's move to Real Madrid. Journalists compared Azar with and, but Eden abandoned analogies with famous forwards, saying that he did not reach the level of the stars.

Awards (team)

2010/11 - Champion of France: Lille
2011 - Winner of the French Cup: Lille
2014/15, 2016/17 - Champion of England (2): Chelsea
2015 - Winner of the Football League Cup: Chelsea
2013 - Winner of the UEFA Europa League: Chelsea

Awards (personal)

2009, 2010 - NSPF Young Player of the Year in France
2011, 2012 - NSPF Player of the Year in France
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 Fan 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 (with Aaron Ramsey)
2016 - English Premier League Player of the Month
2017 - UEFA Team of the Year
2017 - The best football player in Belgium