🇫🇷 Rio Mavuba on Eden Hazard:
🎙️ "Generally, before a match, nobody did anything. Nobody went out. But on this occasion, we were guaranteed to finish third and we were playing Nancy the next day. It was Eden Hazard's last match at Lille and suddenly he wanted to organise a little thing. So we decide to go for a drink. But the drink in question, it ended up going on late into the night...
And we had a meeting the next morning with the team in a hotel at 10am. At the hotel, Marko Baša, our centre-back, opens a door and says: "What the hell are you doing here like that?"
I hadn't seen, but he was talking to Eden. Eden answered: "Yeah, I didn't have time to go home."
In fact, Eden, at that time, he was still completely drunk.
Anyway, the day goes on and in the evening we face Nancy. After not even 30 minutes, Eden had already scored a hat-trick. The guy hadn't even slept, he had been drinking all night and he ended up slamming a hat-trick in 30 minutes.
There we all looked at each other, we said to ourselves that he was really special."