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“Why is Rudy Gobert taking pictures with the stadium?”: Real Madrid star Eden Hazard gets trolled for getting eclipsed by the Stifle Tower

Akash Murty
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“Why is Rudy Gobert taking pictures with the stadium?”: Real Madrid star Eden Hazard gets trolled for getting eclipsed by the Stifle Tower

Basketball players playing amongst each other is all good but it’s funny as well as weird to watch them with normal-sized folks, take Eden Hazard for example, who had too big a fan in Rudy Gobert to fit the frame.

When athletes from other sports pay a visit to watch a different sport sitting on the sidelines, it doesn’t generally take much time for the cameraman to find them.

But when NBA players visit, it takes no time at all because they stand out among almost everyone in attendance.

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On the greatest night of the Year for football fans, Liverpool from the English Premier League took on Real Madrid from LaLiga for the UEFA Champions League.

And there were several big-name attendants in the game, some of whom are superstar athletes from other sports like LeBron James of the Los Angeles and Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz.

 

Rudy Gobert eclipses Eden Hazard after Real Madrid’s UEFA champions league victory

It is generally because of their vertical growth that athletes show since childhood, that they gravitate towards games like basketball and volleyball rather than football or any other sport for that matter.

And this picture of the 7’2 French international towering over the 5’9 Belgium international tells us why they were just about right in choosing the sport they did.

Football fans had hilarious reactions to it.

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Madrid won their 14th UEFA Champions League last night after winning the Final 1-0 against Liverpool. That is by far the highest tally of the top silverware in the football world by any franchise.

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Akash Murty

Akash Murty

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An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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