Hazard`s father: He awaits a call from Real Madrid

CAIRO – 30 December 2017: The Belgian international Eden Hazard has refused to renew his contract with Chelsea to leave the door open to a hypothetical signing for Real Madrid, as his father told the Belgian newspaper Le Soir.

"Eden has rejected an extension of the contract to be able, if necessary, to serve the interest of Real Madrid, where it would look good," said the player's father, Thierry Hazard, in an interview published by the Belgian newspaper Le Soir.

Hazard`s father, however, said that the Belgian international has not signed any contract with the club led by Zinedine Zidane, Real Madrid’s coach.

"At the moment I speak to you, there is no contract, Eden is just one of the parties," said Thierry Hazard. Chelsea`s winger, meanwhile, had recently acknowledged his "admiration" for the white club, but had been more elusive in his statements about his possible future as a Madridista and had pointed out that every year the press places him in Real Madrid or in the Paris Saint-Germain.

Hazard, 26, left Belgian football since he was very young to train in the lower categories of the French club of Lille (2005-2007) before, in 2007, he made the jump to the first team, with which he was proclaimed champion of the league and the French Cup in 2011.

A year later he joined Chelsea in 2012, where he achieved four Ballon d`Or nominations and the title of Premier League champion in 2015 and 2017, as well as the winner of the Europa League in 2013, among others.