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.
