Player aiming to win the Golden Land after eliminating Ronaldo's Mess

Belgium's Pleeker Eden Hazard hopes to take the place of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi after they left the World.

The absence of these two players, who have monopolized the Golden Ball for several years both in their performances for clubs at the international level for more than a decade, has left a free room in Russia this year, as well as Neymar, Kyian Mbarpe and Kane will be in the race.

“I hope so, if they're not in the world, then it's our time of”, he said.

I want him to pass to the quarterfinals, the semifinals and maybe even the finals. We play for Belgium, we have good players, but of course I want to go to the finals. Messy and Ronaldo are out now, but there are many other good players still in the world. Let's see at the bottom of”

It's in our hands. We'll play together, give everything and see what happens”.

Chelsea's star Hazard has also refused to show Belgium's players are already thinking about meeting Brazil in the quarterfinals.

“We play against Japan, so we are not sure whether we qualify or not, and neither does Brazil have the safe”, he said.

We're not thinking about the match against Brazil, we're thinking about our match against Japan tomorrow. We're just thinking about this fight”

Hazard now entered for the third time in this phase of elimination with Belgium, who had been lost to the quarterfinals of the World in Brazil in 2014 and against Wales in Euro 2016.

He believes these painful losses have prepared the team to play pressure all the time.

I'm much stronger than two years ago or four years ago, definitely”, he said.

I have more experience as well. Brazil was my first international race for many of us. The directly eliminated matches require experience and we didn't have it then. I think that then most of us were 25 years old, now there are 30 and 33 years old on the team. We have another level of discretion and we think that this will make a difference this time”.