In case of Eden Hazard It has dismantled Madridismo. The star signing of the summer of 2019 he aimed to become the leader of the post-Christian project, with consummate experience at Chelsea, a club in which he became by right one of the best footballers on the planet. Expectations were through the roof and the braking continued, in the form of injuries that never before in the race of Hazard had occurred, they invite to recall other cases of soccer players from the Premier League and that, once arrived at Real Madrid, they did not perform as expected due to physical problems.
The curse coming from England affects Hazard as before it did with Jonathan Woodgate, Arjen Robben or, to a different extent, Gareth Bale. All of them arrived with a large poster and injuries kept them from giving their best face at Real Madrid. In the case of Woodgate, the problems gave him an almost permanent position in the infirmary, while Robben or Bale, two world stars like Hazard, were affected in terms of continuity by the scourge of injuries.
Hazard accumulates nine injuries in just a year and a half as a soccer player Real Madrid. The Belgian was a safe signing in this regard, with only 20 games lost in seven seasons in the Chelsea, mostly due to an ankle injury that was reproduced in his first months of white. With Madrid, in a much, much shorter period of time, Eden he has been forced to miss more than twice as many games, 43, as proof of a curse that occurs again in the thirteen-time European champion.
The Woodgate case
Woodgate arrived at Real Madrid in the summer of 2004 from Newcastle, and with the vitola of being one of the most solid present and future centers on the planet. Jonathan arrived in the Santiago Bernabeu injured, but an early recovery and almost immediate performance were expected, as demonstrated by the 18 million that the club invested to take over his services.
Woodgate, with David Beckham. (Getty)
Complications in the injury that dragged from his stage in the Premier League caused Woodgate remain up to 13 months in the dry dock. His debut, after the endless recovery, was no better than the ordeal lived before. Jonathan he was finally able to dress short before him Athletic Club, and he did it with an own goal and an expulsion that caused the gossip not only to be pronounced about his physical condition, but also towards his quality.
The central could hardly show that this chapter belonged to a cluster of bad luck. Weighed down again by physical problems, in this case muscular, which were accumulating in a case similar to the one currently experienced by Hazard, Woodgate ended his journey in the Real Madrid with just 10 games played, to head back to the Premier League, where he could never show off the qualities that made Madrid notice him.
Robben, star in the infirmary
After bad experience with Woodgate, Real Madrid returned to fishing in the Premier League, although in this case with a diametrically opposite project. Arjen Robben, extreme electric and vertical, came like a star from Chelsea. It was one of Ramón Calderón’s promises but his relationship with injuries overshadowed the talent shown in his games in the Santiago Bernabeu.
Robben alternated goals with muscular problems that led him directly to the infirmary, and that prevented him from having the necessary continuity for the Real Madrid, then in low hours in the pre-Mourinho stage, he fulfilled his set objectives. As it is, the return of Florentino Pérez to the presidency brought a revolution in the form of signings, and the arrivals of Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo Y Benzema They left an Arjen without a gap who headed to Bayern where, freed from injuries, he was able to establish himself as one of the best footballers on the planet.
Robben, in a match with Real Madrid. (Getty)
Bale and his 101 low games
The difficulty marked by the economic power of the Premier League did not prevent Real Madrid from carrying out a strategic, albeit costly operation – close to 100 million euros – to bring the player of the moment, Gareth Bale, to the Santiago Bernabéu. The dream that the Welshman shared the lead with Benzema Y Cristiano Ronaldo it became a reality, while he was nominated as a successor, in the medium term, of the ‘7’, as emblem of the team and captain general of the offensive.
Bale it did its job halfway. His decisive goals will remain forever in the history of the Real Madrid, as a sign of their participation in the last four Champions League of the club, but his constant injuries led him to miss up to 101 games, a real outrage that overshadowed his goal in La Décima, his career with Bartra in the 2014 Copa del Rey, or his spectacular Chilean in Kiev. Gareth is and will be considered an important footballer in the club’s history, but injuries – and his laziness – will separate him from the legendary band.