Hazard's practical joke

There are footballers who are happy in their own bubble, who they play for him I Soccer Club and losing is only a transit between one game and another and their next publicity act or story in its Instagram. One of them is Eden Hazard, the highest paid Real Madrid footballer and the first to throw hair into the sea, two minutes after his team was eliminated at the gates of a Champions League final, with his football executioners. The Belgian started the game with aspirations to recover his lost genius and ended it without having had a single chance to score and with a clean laugh with Zouma and Edouard Mendy.

A tragicomic scene, because of the background, that several former white footballers did not like either.“It has a lot to do with modern football, it shocks us from before, maybe we got more angry”, Cañizares opined in The House of Soccer. Javier Balboa, in his networks, was also critical. “Someone explain it to me because I don't understand it”.

Hazard walks through his own garden of earthly delights where everything slips practically since he stamped his signature on the contract with the Real Madrid letterhead. Nor do the seams of the kit suffer (“I try not to go to the pantry too much for the buns, it's not easy”, he said sarcastically in April last year) or spend three-quarters of his millionaire stage in Madrid on leave: “Injuries are not the end of the world because I spend more time with my family.” Zero worries, from the looks of it.

The pandemic frees him from the Bernabéu …

For his other family, the Madridista, he is still almost a stranger. The Bernabéu public has only seen him nine live games before the coronavirus, with a single goal against Granada. It is presumable to think that, in the absence of a pandemic, the white coliseum had hammered his eardrums with whistles, as Gareth Bale well knows. Its null influence was evident in Stamford Bridge. Once a vertiginous attacker, he only tried four dribbles against his former team (with success, only two) and three of them were 40 meters from the goal of the blues.

The market value of the Belgian, according to Transfermarkt, is € 40m, 110 million less than when he signed. In real life and with his monstrous chip (€ 15M net), his value in the face of a transfer would probably be less. Like high cholesterol, little joke.