Eden Hazard retired from as a player at the age of 32. In a candid interview with France Football, he confirms that he prefers to leave stress aside and that is why he could never have had a career like that of Cristiano Ronaldo. But he did not hesitate to compare himself to the Portuguese star.
“No, I couldn’t have done it. After a workout, go take a cold shower for an hour… no. Leave me alone, I want to go home and be with my friends, drink a beer, play cards. I played for two hours with my children in the garden, it was my convalescence. If I had been like Cristiano, this example of a good footballer, I would have been “burned”. I didn’t go to the gym every three days, I didn’t do three hours of physiotherapy to recover.
Messi is perhaps the only one, I think he is the greatest in history, because it is impossible to take the ball away from him. Cristiano is a bigger player, but I believe that in terms of pure football he was not better than me. And then, and no better than me, there are a lot of good players at Real Madrid. Benzema, Modric, Kroos, they breathe football.
I can’t say he overindulged in the food, but he wasn’t very careful. Of course, I wouldn’t go to McDonalds every day, you can’t last 16 years as a professional like that. It didn’t matter. I like to eat, be with friends, have a drink. Diets are boring, they are useless. Ok, it’s good if you want to play until you’re 40, but I knew it wasn’t for me.
Going to training was a bit boring. I arrived, I didn’t even tie my shoelaces and I thought “this is good”. But then he played on the field, that’s what mattered. You are good, you win, you get bonuses, everyone is happy. At Real, I had a series of injuries, often without knowing how or why,” Hazard told France Football.
2024-03-04 07:32:45
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