Eden Hazard opens up in L’Equipe about his life, football, and his lifestyle.
Eden Hazard expresses his admiration for Marco Verratti: in L’Equipe this Saturday, the Belgian retiree admits that he used to watch PSG just to see the Italian play: « I watched PSG for Verratti. Regardless of his lifestyle, his yellow cards, he couldn’t change. He’s a bit in the same mold as me. »
« He dribbles in his own area, maybe he loses the ball and a goal is scored against. ‘Yeah, Verratti…’ He doesn’t care, he’ll do it again. Hat’s off, the artist. You made me enjoy it! » he said.
Then he talks about his own lifestyle. He confesses that he didn’t necessarily follow all the habits of a professional player. « After a game, spending an hour in the cold bath, no. Leave me alone, with my friends, we go to my place, play cards, have a beer. I play for two hours with my sons in the garden. That was my recovery. If I had been like Cristiano, he’s the example, there are others, I would have burned out. »
« When you’re good on the field, you can do whatever you want. I operate on that principle. I managed myself. I didn’t go to the gym every three days; I didn’t spend three hours with a physio to recover. But I made a difference. The demand is to be good. I’m not going to say I was abusing it. I wasn’t paying attention. But I wasn’t going to McDonald’s every day, » revealed Hazard, who has no regrets about his career.
