Hazard started playing football at the age of 4, in the "Royal Stade Brainois" team. Already in those days, coaches unanimously noted that Eden's abilities were at least outstanding. After 8 years, the boy moved to "Tubize"; at one of the Tubize matches, he was spotted by the Lille talent agent. His report convinced his superiors to contact Azar's parents; they liked the offer - they not without reason believed that in France (France) their son could be trained at a much higher level.

Azar 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; for the first time he entered the field on September 1, 2007, in the second half of the match.

During the season Azar was taken out on the field several times in the “adult” team of the club, but formally Eden was listed among the amateurs. In total, during his amateur career, Hazard entered the field 11 times and scored 1 goal.

In the following season, Azar entered the main team, however, he played mainly as a substitute. One of his most successful such outings took place on September 20. Lille lost 2-1 to Auxerre; in the 88th minute of the match, Eden, however, managed to level the score with an incredible blow. This surprise goal encouraged his teammates; the match ended 3-2 - the third goal was scored already in extra time. With his first “adult” goal, Hazard set a kind of club record - at such a young age none of the “Lille” players have scored goals. Eden was offered a contract extension and began to include him in the starting lineup more often. At the end of the season, Azar was named Young Player of the Year by the National Union of Professional Footballers; foreigners had not yet received this award before Eden.

Agents of other clubs became interested in the talented player, but "Lille" did not want to part with Azar. Hazar, 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 either; his game helped the club gain a foothold in the league (although it did not save it from being relegated 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 receive the award twice and nearly earning the title of Player of the Year.

The beginning of the next season for Azar was a bit unsettled; at a certain stage he was even removed from the starting line-up. The coaches reproached him for not taking a serious approach to training and general laziness.

In the end, Azar did correct the situation - at the end of the year, the NSPF even awarded him the title of "Ligue 1 Player of the Year"; Eden is the youngest ever to receive this award.

In May 2012 - after another decent season - Hazard announced his move to Chelsea. First time on the field with new team Eden Hazard came out on July 18th.

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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.

The footballer Eden Hazard was born in 1991 in the Belgian city of La Louviere, and he made his first steps in his career 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 the real professional career Eden Azara.

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 was the start new era 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 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, does great expectations 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 recognized best player of 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-born attacking midfielder who plays for Real Madrid and Belgium. He is a graduate of the "Lille" Academy, in which he made his debut in professional football 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 Louvière, 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 on the highest level Belgium 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 Lance, 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 one came to the camp of the French club. Main coach Rudy Garcia, 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 the players' version.

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. New season Hazard started with two goals in two Europa League games. In that football year Eden played important role in Lille's advance to the Europa League play-off stage, and also scored for the first time in the Northern Derby against Lance.

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 League 1 champion with the Docks. business card the midfielder became swift passes from the flank to the center of the field and smashing 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 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.

V 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 League, 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 Hazard'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 qualifying match to EURO 2012, where the Belgians did not get.

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 world championship to 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 distinguished himself with one scored ball... 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.

Eden Hazard - Belgian footballer, midfielder English club Chelsea and Belgium. 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 Louviere, 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.

To complete sports career Catherine was three months pregnant 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 at Lance, Kilian at Lille, Ethan stayed in Belgium - he was admitted to Tubize, where he developed sports biography older brother Eden.

Eden Hazard took his first steps in football at the age of 4 at the Royal Stud Brainua. After 8 years, the gifted player was taken to Tubiz. Even then, midfielder Azar was classified as a winger - this is the name of the 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. The territorial proximity also played a role.

So in 2005, Eden Hazard got into sports school first league, after which he continued his studies at the academy "Lille". 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 3-year contract for better conditions... Soon, Eden Azar was called the most promising player in the world by football commentators and fans of the club - the player's progress in a few years turned out to be rapid. At Lille, Hazard became the team leader.

In 2012, the giants fought for the midfielder English football: Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, Spanish Barça and Real Madrid, for which the nationality of the midfielder did not matter, was at the forefront of professionalism.

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. V next year footballer became top scorer teams, but in the English Premier League Chelsea were left without trophies. 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. 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 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 footballer 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 - Cup Winner football league: 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 – Best Footballer Belgium

Family and childhood

The Belgian city of La Louvière has given the world the creative, fast and fearless footballer Azar Eden. The player's date of birth is January 7, 1991. Hazard Eden grew up in the small Walloon town of Brenne-le-Comte, in a large football family... His parents were also engaged football sports, Catherine's mother until the end of Hazard's first trimester of pregnancy, played as a striker in the Belgian First Division. Thierry's father has devoted much of his time to being a midfielder for the team. professional level The Louvieros from the Belgian Second Division. All three brothers - Ethan, Torgan and Kilian play football at a professional level.

Despite the fact that Eden Azar's father is a native Belgian, the footballer is Muslim, since his mother is from the African country of Morocco.

Eden Hazard, together with his brothers from childhood, could develop and improve in football, since they lived "two steps" from the football field and their parents did everything possible so that their sons excel in the art of football.

Eden Hazar's career

Royal Stud Brainua is the first football club in Eden, to which the boy came at the age of four. While in the club, the boy was called a "gifted player", and one of the mentors claimed that he could not teach Edan Azar more, since the gifted Belgian already knew everything.

After eight years, Eden Hazard moves to the Tubiz football club. The player immediately begins to enter the field in local tournaments.

At the age of fourteen, the football player is noticed by the French club "Lille" and the club's management decides to negotiate with the boy's father and offer a contract. The father accepts the offer, arguing that the clubs in France can give more for the development of the boy than the clubs in Belgium, which did not differ in the well-established system of training young players.

In the spring of 2 years, the Belgian signs his first three-year professional-level contract. In the 2-2008 season, the footballer was transferred to the reserve team, playing at the amateur level in the French championship. As part of the base, the Belgian began to enter the field in 2008. During his stay at the club (5 seasons), footballer Eden Hazard scored fifty goals and played one hundred ninety-two matches. In the 2010-2011 season, the Belgian with the Lille team won the French Cup and championship gold.

Such clubs as "", "Internazionale", "Arsenal", "" and "" began to be interested in the footballer. But the choice of the footballer fell on the London club "". The amount of the transfer amounted to more than thirty million pounds, and in the summer of 2012 footballer Eden Hazard defended the club's honor in the game against Manchester City for the FA Super Cup. In his first season at Chelsea, the Belgian won Best Young Player in the English Premier League.

In the history of the professional football league for English football clubs, the Belgian set new record and was recognized as the best player in the championship in three starting rounds. The footballer Eden Hazard played more than two hundred matches in the 2012-2016 seasons, scoring more than fifty goals.

In 2013, against Swansea City, footballer Eden Hazard received his first red card. The footballer hit the boy who was serving balls because of clear violations of football principles. The action of footballer Eden Azar provoked discontent, but the incident was justified by many coaches and footballers.

The midfielder has played for many Belgian youth teams. In the game against the Luxembourg national team, there was a "baptism of fire" in the main squad of the main Belgian national team. Throughout his career in the national team, the Belgian entered the field sixty-three times and scored twelve goals.