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In the garden of Eden, where it all began for Hazard

Now Belgium's captain, Eden Hazard took his first steps in football on the pitch in the town of Braine-le-Comte which he accessed by sliding under a fence in his back garden.

Only a few bushes separate the modest abode where Eden and his three younger brothers grew up from the home ground of Stade Brainois, 40 kilometres south of Brussels in the French-speaking Wallonia region of Belgium.

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