[Football] Eden Hazard retires, aged 32

[Bozza]

Quite a sad, slow, injury-hit demise for a player who bloody terrorised us, and many others.

Almost unplayable on his day, and he had a lot of them.

46/115 Eden Hazard announces retirement from football

Eden Hazard has confirmed that he is retiring from football at the age of 32.

www.90min.com

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

His performance against us at the Amex in our first PL season is probably the best individual performance I’ve ever seen. He was simply unplayable that day.

32 is no age but injuries have taken their toll. He lost is passion for the game a while ago but it’s sad to see any player retire early.

 

[el punal]

There are certain players, in my view, who seemed to tear us to pieces. Definitely Hazard, and his Chelsea mate Willian. Adama Traore (Wolves), Antonio (West Ham) and Sock Boy, when he was at Villa. There are probably many more.

 

[Justice]

There are certain players, in my view, who seemed to tear us to pieces. Definitely Hazard, and his Chelsea mate Willian. Adama Traore (Wolves), Antonio (West Ham) and Sock Boy, when he was at Villa. There are probably many more.

Joel V put an end to sock boy. I don’t think he Joel likes him very much.

 

[Camship]

Undoubtedly one of the best players I've seen live, just ridiculously good. A proper entertainer

 

[Monkey Man]

His performance against us at the Amex in our first PL season is probably the best individual performance I’ve ever seen. He was simply unplayable that day.

32 is no age but injuries have taken their toll. He lost is passion for the game a while ago but it’s sad to see any player retire early.

I think I read at the time that the players had a discussion at half time in that game along the lines of "what the hell do we do about a player like that"? I seem to remember it was an interview with Dunk where it came out.

At that point he was definitely the best player I'd seen at the Amex. May well still be.

 

[Monkey Man]

Here's Hazard's stats from that game:

 

[veuve]

Great player, best ever at the Amex.

 

[Invicta]

He was awesome that day in 2017/18 season, didn't think we'd last long in the Prem. How things changed !!

 

[Greavsey]

Definitely the best I've seen at the Amex, probably ever. And I include Marcos Painter in that assessment.

 

[BBassic]

Unquestionably an incredible player but good grief the interminable "will he / won't he" transfer news every single year was as tedious as he was talented.

 

[Live by the sea]

On his day unplayable - great talent

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

The rich man's Trossard.

 

[Farehamseagull]

Admire him for choosing to retire now rather than taking a contract when his heart’s not in it anymore. Was a wonderful player at his peak, unplayable.

Definitely top 3 individual performances at the Amex along with Coutinho for Liverpool around the same time as that Hazard display and Odegaard last season.

 

[southstandandy]

Sad at just 32. What a player.

 

[luge]

He had these wonderful hips that would control games. A quick flick would send defenders flying. An amazing player to watch - and a sad end to his career.

 

[scooter1]

Blimey, he only played 54 league games in 4 years at Madrid

 

[Weststander]

A poor man's Zaha.

 

[A1X]

That Amex performance was the first time after we went up that I watched someone playing and thought "bloody hell, this is something else", still not convinced I've ever seen an individual performance as good as that since

 

[BigBod]

He's never been the same since he left Chelsea.. Great player.