Thorgan Ganael Francis Hazard (born 29 March 1993) is a Belgian professional
footballer
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who plays as an
attacking midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
and
winger for
Bundesliga
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club
Borussia Dortmund
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund (), BVB (), or simply Dortmund (), is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its men's professional fo ...
and the
Belgium national team. He is the younger brother of
Eden and older brother of
Kylian Hazard
Kylian Hazard (; born 5 August 1995) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for RWDM. He has two older brothers, Eden and Thorgan, and one younger, Ethan, all of whom are footballers.
Early life
Hazard was ...
.
He began his professional career at
Lens
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in
Ligue 1, and moved to Chelsea in 2012 shortly after they had signed his older brother. He never played a competitive match for Chelsea, being loaned for two years to
Zulte Waregem, where he was awarded the
Belgian Golden Shoe In association football, the Belgian Golden Shoe ( nl, Gouden Schoen, french: Soulier d'Or) is an award given in Belgium at the beginning of each civil year to the best footballer of the Belgian First Division A for the past year. The trophy is spon ...
in January 2014, for the best footballer in the
Belgian Pro League
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,
and the prize for
best professional football player in May 2014.
He joined
Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2014, initially on loan, and made over 100 appearances for the club before moving to
Borussia Dortmund
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in 2019.
Having previously played at every level in the Belgian national youth team system, he was handed his first senior international cap against the
United States
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in May 2013. He was part of the Belgian squad that came third at the
2018 FIFA World Cup.
Early life
Hazard grew up in
Braine-le-Comte
Braine-le-Comte (; nl, ’s-Gravenbrakel, ; wa, Brinne-e-Hinnot) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
On January 1, 2018, Braine-le-Comte had a total population of 21,649. The total area is whic ...
, a small town in the
Wallonia
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region
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, but he was born in
La Louvière. His first name was inspired by the Belgian
comic strip ''
Thorgal'' and he grew up in a family where football was dominant.
His mother Carine and father Thierry were both footballers in Belgium. His father spent most of his career playing at
semi-professional level with
Louviéroise in the
Belgian Second Division.
He played mainly as a
defensive midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundari ...
.
His mother played as a
striker in the
Belgian Women's First Division and stopped playing when she was three months pregnant with his older brother Eden.
After playing football, both parents became physical education teachers.
Thierry retired from his position in 2009 in order to devote more time to his children.
Hazard has three other siblings. His older brother,
Eden, played for Lens'
biggest rivals Lille
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and now plays for
Real Madrid in Spain. Hazard's other younger brothers are
Kylian and Ethan. In 2013, Kylian joined
White Star Bruxelles, and on 29 August 2017, he signed to join Chelsea's development team, however is currently playing for Cercle Brugge. Ethan goes to the youth academy of Eden's former club,
Tubize
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.
Hazard and his three brothers were raised in a comfortable environment with their parents ensuring they had whatever they needed to excel.
The family lived "no more than three meters" from a football training ground and the brothers often ventured onto a training pitch through a small hole in order to hone and develop their skills.
Club career
Lens
![Hazard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Thorgan_Hazard.png)
Hazard began his football career playing for hometown club
Royal Stade Brainois
Royal Stade Brainois, often called just Stade Brainois was a Belgian football club from Braine-le-Comte, Hainaut, Wallonia.
History
The club was founded on 1 July 1923
as Amicale Athlétique Brainoise. Two years later it received the matricu ...
at age five. After spending five years at the club, Thorgan followed his brother Eden to
Tubize
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. At age 14, he was discovered by French club
Lens
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while playing for Tubize in a local tournament. Similar to his brother's move to Lille, his parents accepted an offer from Lens with hopes that the training facilities in France would be better, here he met fellow Belgium player and future
Chelsea
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teammate
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.
Hazard's father later admitted Eden was much better than Thorgan, and that joining clubs in the
North of France was the best solution, stating, "They remained so close to home and, at the same time, they integrated at structures where they could grow, because in Belgium, unfortunately, it's a little empty for the training of youth." While in the club's youth academy, Hazard played for the Lens under-16 team, alongside players such as
Geoffrey Kondogbia
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and
Raphaël Varane
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, that won the 2008–09 edition of the ''Championnat National des 16 ans'' 44.
On 7 April 2010, Hazard signed his first professional contract after agreeing to a three-year deal until June 2013. Ahead of the
2010–11 season, Hazard trained with the senior team during the pre-season. On his pre-season debut, he scored a goal in a 1–1 draw with Belgian club
Roeselare
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Th ...
. However, Hazard began the season with the club's
Championnat de France amateur team in the fourth division. He made his amateur debut on 8 August 2010, appearing as a substitute in a 2–0 victory over
Drancy. After spending most of the season playing concurrently with the reserve team in the CFA and with the under-19 team in the
Coupe Gambardella
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The cup is regarded as an opportunity for young hopefuls to showcase their s ...
, on 9 May 2011, Hazard was named to the senior team for the first time on 11 May in a
Ligue 1 match against
Bordeaux
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. However, Hazard did not feature in the match and finished the 2010–11 campaign with no senior team appearances.
Ahead of the
2011–12 season, Hazard was promoted to the senior team permanently and assigned the number 22 shirt. He made his professional debut in Lens' opening league match of the season against
Reims, appearing as a second-half substitute in a 2–0 defeat. He played 14 league games that season.
Chelsea
On 24 July 2012, Chelsea confirmed on its website the club had agreed terms with Lens for the transfer of Hazard, soon after the signing of his brother Eden from Lille. He made his debut on 17 August 2012 in an Under-21 Premier League match, a 0–0 home draw against
Manchester City in what was to be his only appearance in Chelsea colours before leaving the club.
Zulte Waregem
On 30 August 2012, Hazard was sent on a season-long loan move to
Belgian Pro League
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club
Zulte Waregem. The move was set up to allow him first-team experience rather than be developed slowly by Chelsea.
![Thorgan Hazard 2014](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Thorgan_Hazard_2014.jpg)
He made his debut on 15 September 2012 in a 1–0 away win against
OH Leuven. Hazard scored his first goal on 31 October in a 4–1 home win against
Charleroi. On 16 May 2013, Hazard put in an impressive shift as he scored the game's opening goal from the penalty spot before providing two assists in a 5–2 defeat of
Club Brugge at the
Regenboogstadion in
Waregem
Waregem (; vls, Woaregem), sometimes known as Waereghem, is a municipality and city located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality lies in the valley of the river Leie, between Kortrijk and Ghent. It is part of the arrondiss ...
.
On 15 July 2013, Chelsea and Waregem agreed for Hazard to be loaned back for another year until the end of the 2013–14 season. Hazard scored a free-kick and assisted a goal as Zulte won their season opener against
Lierse on 27 July.
On 2 August, the Belgian club announced Hazard would be replacing experienced defender
Davy De fauw as club captain, which was received with much anger from a section of the club's supporters. This led to Hazard handing the captain's armband back, less than 24 hours after receiving it. After the incident, it was rumoured the move to make Thorgan the club captain was one of the conditions in the loan deal imposed by Chelsea.
On 28 November 2013, Hazard scored against
Wigan Athletic
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Founded in 1932, ...
in a 2–1 win in the
UEFA Europa League
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group stage
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win away at the
DW Stadium
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.
He was voted as Zulte's player of the season, and scored 17 goals in 53 matches across all competitions. Hazard also won the Belgian Player of the Year Award.
Borussia Mönchengladbach
![Hazard2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Hazard2.jpg)
On 5 July 2014, Hazard was loaned to
Borussia Mönchengladbach of the German
Bundesliga
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for the
2014–15 season. During his loan, Hazard wore the number 26. In the 3–1 win against
FC 08 Homburg
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in the
DFB-Pokal
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16 August 2014, Hazard made his debut, coming on in the 78th minute as a substitute for
Branimir Hrgota. He then made his league debut 24 August 2014 in a 1–1 draw against
VfB Stuttgart
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, coming off the bench in the 67th minute.
Hazard scored twice in Gladbach's 7–0 win over
FK Sarajevo in the
UEFA Europa League play-offs on 28 August 2014, including a curling free-kick from 35 yards out. On 24 September 2014, Hazard made his first start for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga, against
Hamburger SV
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, playing 71 minutes before being substituted for
Fabian Johnson in a 1–0 win. On 6 December 2014, Hazard started against
Hertha BSC, only his second start in the Bundesliga. He played the full 90 minutes and assisted
Tony Jantschke
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Career
Jantschke began his career at ''Hoyersw ...
for the first goal of the match in the opening ten minutes, as well as scoring the winning goal in the 83rd minute, his first of
the Bundesliga season. The match ended in a 3–2 win, breaking the club's four-match winless streak.
On 23 February 2015, Hazard agreed to sign permanently for Borussia Monchengladbach, affective from 1 July. He joined on a five-year contract, thus lasting until June 2020, a buy-back agreement with Chelsea was also included. The contract consists of four years, along with one year optional. The transfer fee was reported as €8 million (£5.9 million), 16 times as much as Chelsea paid for him. During an interview about his move becoming permanent in the summer, Hazard confirmed his deal does contain a buy-back clause and that he still dreams of returning to
Stamford Bridge in the future. In his interview, he said, "I am focusing on excelling at Borussia Monchengladbach, but I still hope to play for Chelsea one day."
On 8 August 2015, in his first game after his transfer, Hazard scored in a 4–1 win at
FC St. Pauli
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in the first round of the
DFB-Pokal
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. Following the resignation of manager
Lucien Favre
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, who lost the first five matches of the Bundesliga, and
André Schubert
André Schubert (born 24 July 1971) is a German football coach and former player.
Career
Schubert studied sports and German studies at the University of Kassel. He started to work as a youth coach in 1989, and until 1995 he played for TSV Roth ...
's appointment, he was unable to find a place in the starting lineup. Hazard made his first start under Schubert on 20 December against
Darmstadt 98, eventually earning preference from Schubert over
Ibrahima Traoré on the right side. Hazard finished the season with four goals, two coming in a match against Hertha BSC on 3 April 2016 in a 5–0 win.
Looking to improve his playing time and goalscoring heading into the year, Hazard scored his first ever hat-trick in a 6–1 victory over Swiss club
Young Boys in the second leg of the
UEFA Champions League
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play-off round
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on 24 August 2016. Mönchengladbach set a record with a 9–2 aggregate scoreline, the largest ever margin of victory in a play-off tie. On 17 September, Hazard and teammate
Raffael both scored first-half braces against
Werder Bremen
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in a Bundesliga match.
With rumours that Chelsea were looking to exercise their buy-back clause on Hazard, and that the clause expired at the end of 2016, club sport director
Max Eberl claimed Chelsea did not actually have an explicit buy-back clause in Hazard's contract. Hazard, addressing these rumours, said, "I signed a contract here, because I want to play here." On 28 September, Hazard scored his first UEFA Champions League goal, opening the scoring against
Barcelona
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at
Borussia-Park
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before the visitors went on to win 1–2.
On 25 November 2017, he scored from the penalty spot to help his side defeat the
Bundesliga record champion
Bayern Munich with a 2–1 win. Hazard also scored twice in a 2–1 victory against Hertha BSC, and ended the season with eleven goals and six assists.
On 19 August 2018, Hazard,
Alassane Pléa
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Club career Lyon
Pléa made his senior debut for ...
and Raffael each scored hat-tricks in an 11–1 win at fifth-tier
BSC Hastedt
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in the first round of the cup.
Borussia Dortmund
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On 22 May 2019, Hazard joined
Borussia Dortmund
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on a five-year contract for a reported fee of €25.5 million. He joined the club at the same time as new teammate
Julian Brandt, who arrived from
Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
International career
Youth
Hazard is a Belgian youth international and has represented his nation at under-16,
under-17, and under-18 level. With the under-16 team, Hazard was a regular participant. He made his debut on 16 September 2008 in a 5–0 defeat to
Germany
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in a tournament in
Hassloch.
In the team's next match in the tournament, against
Macedonia, Hazard scored a goal in a 3–0 victory. For the rest of the under-16 campaign, he scored goals in matches against
Malta
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and
Poland
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. Hazard also played with the team at the 2009 edition of the Aegean Cup in Turkey. He featured in all three matches as Belgium crashed out in the group stage portion of the competition.
Due to his increased participation with Lens domestically, Hazard primarily played in competitive matches with the under-17 team under coach Bob Browaeys. In August 2009, he played with the team in the Toto Cup, a yearly international youth tournament held in Austria. In the
first qualifying round
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for the
2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
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, Hazard scored his only goal with the team in a 1–1 draw with
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. He was subsequently called up to the team in March 2010 for
Elite Round qualification matches that were played in Northern Ireland. Hazard played in all three matches as Belgium failed to earn qualification to the tournament.
Hazard appeared in only one match with the under-18 team before bypassing the age level to represent the
under-19 team ahead of the
2011 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
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. He made his debut on 8 February in a friendly match against
Belarus
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, scoring the team's only goal in a 1–0 win. On 27 March 2011, Hazard scored the game-winning goal converting a penalty in a 2–1 win over
Ukraine
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. In
Elite Round qualification for the 2011 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Hazard featured as a starter and played the entire match in all three group stage matches. In the second group stage match against
Estonia
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, Hazard netted the winner in the 88th minute to give Belgium a 3–2 win. The victory allowed the nation to qualify for the tournament with one match to spare. Belgium ultimately finished the Elite Round unbeaten.
At the 2011 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Hazard featured in two of the three group stage matches Belgium contested. In the team's opening match against
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, Hazard assisted on the team's only goal in a 4–1 defeat after his shot from distance was blocked by the Spanish defence and fell into the path of teammate
Florent Cuvelier, who converted his shot. Belgium ultimately finished last in its group, which resulted in the team being eliminated from the tournament.
Due to being an underage player in the 2010–11 season, Hazard remained eligible to play on the under-19 team for the 2011–12 season. In the first match of the campaign against
Denmark
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, Hazard scored the team's only goal converting a penalty in a 1–1 draw. On 7 September 2011, he scored the second goal in the team's 4–1 friendly match win over
Turkey
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. In
first round qualification for the
2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
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, Hazard scored a team-leading three goals. In the first group match against
Wales
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, he scored a double in a 3–0 win and, in the team's final group match against
Scotland
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, Hazard netted the second goal in a 3–1 victory. In
Elite Round qualification, Hazard appeared in two of the team's three group stage matches as Belgium finished third in the group behind favourites
Spain
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and
Italy
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.
Senior
On 16 May 2013, Hazard earned his first
senior call-up after being included in
Marc Wilmots
Marc Robert Wilmots (born 22 February 1969) is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who recently managed the Iran national team and is now active at Raja CA. During his club career as attacking midfielder, he won trophies w ...
' 28-man squad ahead of a friendly with the
United States
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followed by a
2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against
Serbia
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. On 29 May, he made his senior international debut for Belgium as a second-half substitute for Chelsea teammate
Romelu Lukaku
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Lukaku began his senior club career playing for Ander ...
in the 4–2 friendly win over the United States. Hazard was one of seven standby players named for Belgium's squad for the
2014 World Cup
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final stages. It took him three-and-a-half years to gain his second cap, in a 1–1
Low Countries derby friendly away to the Netherlands on 9 November 2016, again from the bench.
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Hazard scored his first goal in a
2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier on 10 October 2017 in a 4–0 home victory against
Cyprus
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. On 4 June 2018, manager
Roberto Martínez
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named Hazard in Belgium's 23-man squad for the
2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. He made his tournament debut on 18 June, playing the last seven minutes of the group match against
Panama
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in place of
Dries Mertens
Dries Mertens (; born 6 May 1987), nicknamed "Ciro", is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker or winger for Süper Lig club Galatasaray and the Belgium national team. in a 3–0 victory, and played the entirety of the 1–0 win against
England
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in the next match in
Kaliningrad
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; the Belgians finished in a best-ever third place.
On 17 June 2021, he scored one goal in Belgium's
Group B
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game, a 2–1 win against
Denmark
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in
Euro 2020
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. He also scored a 42nd minute goal outside the box against
Portugal
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to bring Belgium into the Euro 2020 quarter finals following a 1–0 win on 27 June 2021.
Career statistics
Club
International
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Honours
Borussia Dortmund
* DFB-Pokal
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: 2020–21
Belgium
*FIFA World Cup
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third place: 2018
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Individual
*Belgian Golden Shoe In association football, the Belgian Golden Shoe ( nl, Gouden Schoen, french: Soulier d'Or) is an award given in Belgium at the beginning of each civil year to the best footballer of the Belgian First Division A for the past year. The trophy is spon ...
: 2013
* Belgian Footballer of the Year: 2013–14
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1993 births
Living people
People from La Louvière
Footballers from Hainaut (province)
Association football midfielders
Belgian footballers
A.F.C. Tubize players
RC Lens players
Chelsea F.C. players
S.V. Zulte Waregem players
Borussia Mönchengladbach players
Borussia Dortmund players
Ligue 2 players
Belgian Pro League players
Bundesliga players
Belgium youth international footballers
Belgium under-21 international footballers
Belgium international footballers
2018 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 2020 players
2022 FIFA World Cup players
Belgian expatriate footballers
Belgian expatriate sportspeople in France
Belgian expatriate sportspeople in England
Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate footballers in France
Expatriate footballers in England
Expatriate footballers in Germany
Hazard family