Last week, I went in search of Eden Hazard, ready to reveal to the world where he has been and what happens next after his Real Madrid contract was mutually terminated in the summer.
We hadn’t seen nor heard from him since and his future was unknown. I landed in Madrid to breaking news… Hazard had retired. Undeterred, I set off on his trail…
Beneath a blazing sun, a security guard strides from the shelter of his tinted-window station and belts the words, ‘Privado.