{"id":1262936,"date":"2022-12-08T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/08\/hazard-retires-from-intl-football\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T10:30:06","slug":"hazard-retires-from-intl-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/08\/hazard-retires-from-intl-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazard Retires From Int\u2019l Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Hazard\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eden Hazard has announced that he will retire from international football following Belgium\u2019s disappointing World Cup campaign in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium were dumped out of the tournament at the group stage with the Real Madrid forward failing to make an impact on the team.<\/p>\n<p>Hazard, 31, played in all three Group F games but did not score as Belgium beat Canada, lost to Morocco and played out a goalless draw with Croatia to finish third.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA page turns today\u2026 Thank you for your love,\u201d Hazard said on his Instagram account on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for your unparalleled support. Thank you for all this happiness shared since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have decided to put an end to my international career. The succession is ready. I will miss you\u2026.#onestensemble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hazard\u2019s announcement comes after Roberto Martinez confirmed he would leave his role as Belgium head coach after their tournament exit.<\/p>\n<p>Following the news, Belgium\u2019s official Twitter account said: \u201cAll the best, captain. #MerciEden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hazard captained his nation in Qatar and has been a key figure for Belgium in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The forward was one of their standout performers at the 2018 World Cup, where he helped Belgium secure a third-place finish \u2014 the nation\u2019s best performance at the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Hazard made his international debut in 2008. He scored 33 times in 126 appearances for Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazard\u00a0 \u00a0 Eden Hazard has announced that he will retire from international football following Belgium\u2019s disappointing World Cup campaign in Qatar. Belgium were dumped out of the tournament at the group stage with the Real Madrid forward failing to make an impact on the team. Hazard, 31, played in all three Group F games but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1262937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1542,19741,5022,14179],"class_list":["post-1262936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-football","tag-hazard","tag-intl","tag-retires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}