what if I told you Messi was once so overweight it almost cost him his career or the story of the legend that became so fat he had to retire these are the eight footballers who got fat and first Up Eden Hazard traded the bnab for Burger King back in the day Eden Hazard used to rule the streets of football I mean seriously this guy had me on the edge of my seat every weekend because you just knew he was going to do something magical after spending seven amazing years at Chelsea Hazard was finally ready to
make the next big move in his career and that's when he became a galactico Chelsea to the Europa League title see guys there was only one problem look closely and you'll realize hazar was looking a little extra and no it wasn't the Jersey going back to haar's past here's what a former teammate had to say about his training habits Eden never trained he was the worst the laziest footballer I have ever seen in my life but then come the weekend he produces and was man of the match turns out Hazard was incredibly talented like I
didn't know that already but now he was in Madrid the talent alone wasn't enough because the team also had amazing Ballers like Bena and venicius Jr meeting Hazard now had to fight for his spot but unfortunately he just couldn't stay fit because every time he got injured it meant he had extra time to catch up on his other favorite activity french fries french fries and beer beer and french fries yeah mostly fren yeah chol coupled that with Fitness issues and hazar only bagged four League goals for Madrid in four years he ended up retiring this
year and it's a shame man because he should have been different but Hazard isn't the only Club record signing I've seen pull up to his new venue looking fat Gonzalo iguin looked like an inflated balloon in 2016 right after breaking the 84-year-old CI record for the most goals in a season with 36 for Napoli iguan had some of the best clubs in the world after his services and in the end it was Juventus who CED him for a club $90 million pretty sure the UV fans must have been excited about getting the League's top scorer
but I bet they didn't know he'd be coming with extra p too5 million man iguin come on it looks as if he is by G Rosetti okay man at first I thought it was the top but there's no hiding that he looked like he' been in an all you can eat buffet with the Big Show on holiday critics immediately came out and started trolling Higuain for his weight problems and uve didn't have a choice so they placed him on a strict diet and even had his housekeeper check his fridge so he didn't stack up on
any extra junk igain couldn't get over the weight problems left uve a few years later and ultimately retired it's coming and now it's official Gonzalo Gonzalo iguin is retiring at the end of inter Miami Season to be fair iguin always had the weight Critics on his case ever since he turned Pro but he always managed to somehow bag the goals just like this next dude romelo Lukaku and now his case about fat is way deeper than you think I'm not even going to lie Lukaku has to be the most trolled Striker I've ever seen I
mean the guy has one bad game and gets trolled for weeks all his career Lukaku has always been on the heavy side but it was at Manchester United that everything threatened to explode Lukaku was accused of being overweight didn't run properly and because he cost the club 75 million pound from Everton they were on his case every week oh he tried it after just 1 year and 6 months Lukaku was sold to Inter Milan and the club CEO marota also had something to say about lukaku's weight he has 103 kilos to carry on his shoulders
he has to be 100% And still isn't and here's where it gets even crazier Lukaku looked huge from day one and that's because he used to digest food way faster as a child but when he got to Inner they ran a couple of tests on him and realized Lukaku had a digestive issue that was making him gain weight faster once he had that figured out Lukaku went on a diet and months later he was hitting bangers like this Lukaku was lucky enough to get his issue sorted out kind of wish the same thing happened to
Adriano man because his getting fat ended his career at one point in 2005 Adriano was the best striker in the world the guy had a 99 shot rating on psse back then a cheat code but just as Adriano was riding the wave of being on top of the world he soon Came Crashing Down all because of one tragic event he got the terrible news that his dad died and this shattered adriano's heart and his career into pieces Adriano became depressed started drinking heavily and ultimately started to gain weight he couldn't match and by 2009 his
career was effectively over Adriano became so fat he was almost unrecognizable same thing with Wesley Snider in 2010 Wesley Snider was arguably the best footballer in the world he'd won the treble with inner Milan and was joined top scorer at the World Cup that year helping Netherlands to reach the final Snider was definitely talented but but he had one problem he just couldn't control and it came back to haunt him years later the dude loved alcohol and junk food because of his talent Snyder never took the game seriously and after his Peak years in 2010
Snider decided the next thing to do was to move to Turkey and if there's one thing you need to know about these guys it's that the food well it's because the interests are like uh different nowadays you know makes you put on a few pounds Snider was never the same after this move he just kept getting bigger and bigger I mean look at him now he's retired but I don't fancy he'd be playing in any more charity matches soon or becoming a coach like the other fat guy in the list Wayne Rooney now I don't
think Rooney needs any introduction cover a FIFA 10 and 12 back in the day Wasa was a legend in 2013 Nike released a trailer video of Rooney that had everyone talking and he looked up and that it was oh it really wasn't maybe these guys could see the future a year earlier Rooney himself admitted he picked the other weight not from the gym quite easily I'm like most BLS I put on a few pounds after a holiday even if I don't train for a week I put on two or three he certainly did because now
I bet Rooney can't even complete a 50 yard dash anymore credit to Rooney though he seemed to let it off weeks before the season began but for Sergio Aguero he was getting benched for looking like a stuffed donut just weeks before the new Premier League season began in 2021 Sergio Aguero couldn't get into the Manchester City team and it wasn't because he wasn't good enough nah according to Pep Guardiola he turned up with extra weight well the first season we were between fourth and third and he said I left you out out because you turned
up fat this week and what was I going to say he was right these things happen igain Adriano and now Aguero maybe it's a South American thing to put on extra pounds as a striker and it probably owes it all to this guy Ronaldo no not CR7 he's built like a tank the other Ronaldo Nazario R9 was the greatest striker of his generation and probably the biggest too literally looking at him he'd always been on the big side but right after leaving Madrid to join AC Milan in 2008 he went from phenomenal to looking like
he flipped burgers for a living he never got over this weight gain and on his last ever match as a pro he left the game looking like this the crazy thing is if not for a miracle Leonel Messi mess would have looked like the same thing for Messi his issues with being fat all started with an addiction growing up Messi was just like every teenager who loves soda and junk food but despite turning pro he never got over it early on Missy's Talent was able to help him hide this but in 2013 one year after
breaking the record for the most goals in a calendar year with 91 his body couldn't hold it in anymore just as Carlos Shack before he ate at the club and rested after but it seems as if Messi ate more pizzas than he should have last year now Messi was in serious trouble cuz if he didn't quit his career was going to be over the Barca coach at the time Luis Enrique knew if Messi was going to cut down on his weight he needs some extra help and that's when he said new strict rules in place
that men players had to get in shape or be kicked out of the team Messi immediately got the memo hit the gym started eating healthy and one year later in 2015 he was holding the Balon door and subscribing to our Channel too what a comeback
