The player won the main prize of "Chelsea player of the year" for the fourth consecutive year, breaking the club's record.
Eden Hazard celebrates a goal with Chelsea teammates
Chelsea's midfielder Eden Hazard won a hat-trick of accolades at Chelsea's award ceremony on Friday (local time). He claimed the awards of Chelsea player of the year, player's player of the year and goal of the season.
The player won the main prize of "Chelsea player of the year" for the fourth consecutive year, breaking the club's record.
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The 28-year-old earned the club's goal of the season award for his stunning goal against Liverpool at Anfield stadium in the Carabao Cup.
My relationship with the fans has been really good since I came here,' Hazard said after picking up the Player of the Year award from Maurizio Sarri and Gianfranco Zola at the Royal Lancaster hotel in central London.
"My relationship with the fans has been really good since I came here," Hazard said in an official statement released by Chelsea FC.
"It's always a pleasure to play at Stamford Bridge in front of the fans. That's why I am on the pitch. When we play for such a great club like Chelsea at the end of the season you want to win something. Now we have that opportunity. We will go to Baku all together with the fans and we will be back with the trophy," he added.
No other Chelsea player has more goals (19) than him or more assists (16) than him.
Hazard has won the goal of the season award three times in his career as a Chelsea player.
Callum Hudson-Odoi was named as the young player of the year in Chelsea's award ceremony.
Fellow midfielder Willian says Chelsea have refused to give up hope that talisman Eden Hazard will be at Stamford Bridge next season, with the Belgian apparently edging closer to a move to Real Madrid. Hazard fired the winning spot-kick on Thursday as Chelsea edged out Eintracht Frankfurt 4-3 on penalties to book an all-English Europa League final against Arsenal, in what could prove his last act at Stamford Bridge.
The Belgium forward is still expected to join Real in a big-money move this summer, but his Brazilian teammate Willian continues to hope otherwise. Luka Jovic cancelled out Ruben Loftus-Cheek's strike to take the semi-final second leg into extra time before penalties had to separate the sides with the aggregate score level at 2-2 and one away goal apiece. Asked if Hazard's decisive penalty could prove his last kick at Stamford Bridge, Willian replied: "I don't know, I don't think so. "For me I hope he stays, but in football you never know. I think his head is here, to play for Chelsea. Then after he's finished the season maybe he can talk about his situation. "I don't know anything about him leaving so for me I hope he can stay. He's very important, a special player, he's very important for us, he helps us a lot.
"And he's one of the best players in the world." Hazard appears close to sealing his Madrid move, with his Chelsea contract expiring next summer and the Blues understood to be holding out for £100 million ($130 million). The Belgium star told BT Sport "In my mind I don't know yet" when asked if he had already played his last game at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri said his side would be worthy Europa League winners after a turbulent campaign that could end in success. "We were in trouble three months ago and, here in England, if you're in trouble the level of opponents is very high and it's not easy to overcome difficulties," said Sarri. "We were able to do it. So now we deserve to win a trophy."
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