Brussels, June 8 -- Former Belgium footballer Eden Hazard dismissed the men's national side's long-talked-about "golden generation" tag since they ended a 12-year absence from the tournament in 2014 as "journalist speak", saying that the the trophy is a hard one to win and the team is really proud of their third-place finish in the 2018 edition.

From 2014 to 2022, Belgium played some of their best football as a side, with a line-up featuring successful and well-accomplished club-level icons like Hazard, Kevin De Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku, and Vincent Kompany, Thibaut Courtois making up a 'golden generation' of Belgium stars which achieved a quarterfinal finish in the 2014 edition, a bronze in the 2018 position, before a group stage exit in t...