At some point, it comes for every footballer: the time after their active career. When everyday life is no longer determined by training, matches, away trips, and meal plans, some know better how to fill their time, while others struggle more.
Some remain in the public eye, perhaps even staying involved in football, while others prefer to withdraw a bit.
Ex-superstar Eden Hazard seems to belong more to the latter category. Since his retirement three years ago, we’ve heard relatively little from him.
Now, however, the now 35-year-old is breaking his silence and has given an interview to the English ‘The Guardian’, in which he talks about his life since retiring.
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The former Chelsea and Real Madrid player describes his life as pretty simple.
He stays at home and enjoys the simple things with his wife, his children, and his brothers. “When you’re playing, you’re constantly on the move, but when you stop, you finally have time for them—without stress,” the Belgian explained understandably.
At the moment, he doesn’t feel like a footballer, but rather, as the father of five children, more like a “taxi driver.” Whether these trips take one or another of the Hazard children to football training, the interview doesn’t reveal. However, the football world would certainly have nothing against seeing the next Hazard generation on the pitch one day.
Eden Hazard himself has had plenty of time to reflect over the last three years since his retirement, and he expressed this with the following words: “Life goes by very quickly, especially in football. Yesterday I was 19, today I’m 35. You have to enjoy it. Not just in football, but in everything. It’s family that helps you,” the ex-footballer summed up in the ‘Guardian’.
Words of wisdom from a retired player—and we think many would surely agree with him.
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.
