France facing Hazard-ous risk

Beguiling Belgian out to quash country where he began career

ST. PETERSBURG - Eden Hazard is one of the French academy system's finest exports in the past decade, but he could be the man to end Didier Deschamps' bid for World Cup glory.

Born to two soccer-playing parents in the Belgian municipality of Braine-le-Comte, Hazard's reputation spread across the border and saw him snapped up by Lille at the age of just 14.