Nine years ago, during a Premier League match between Swansea and the Blues, Chelsea footballer Eden Hazard punched a boy who was in charge of collecting balls, who today is a successful businessman with millions of pounds in his account.
Nine years ago, Hazard stepped on and hit 17-year-old Charlie Morgan, who tried to hide the ball from the Chelsea star with his body in order to steal a few seconds for his team, and caused a storm in the English public.
After the match, Morgan left the field with a painful grimace holding his hip, and Hazard then apologized to the public and the boy who promised not to file a lawsuit against the Belgian representative.
The media then revealed that Charlie is the son of Swansea director and hotel chain owner Martin Morgan whose fortune is estimated at £65 million.
The incident with Hazard gave Charlie Morgan 100,000 followers on social media, and he used the fame to realize his dream of starting his own business. Together with Jackson Quinn, he founded the alcoholic beverage company “Au Vodka”.
They got the idea for this business after watching their friends open bottles of vodka on their birthdays after the incident with Hazard, and they promoted their new product, vodka, through social networks.
In the first years of the company’s establishment, they produced 2,000 bottles a week which they distributed to local bars in Swansea, and after six years they were selling as many as 35,000 bottles a day.
Turnover from £800,000 has grown to a staggering £38.5m and his company has been named the UK’s fastest growing retail brand.
Morgan and his business partner Quinn entered the list of the youngest millionaires of “The Times” this year, they are in 24th place, and their wealth is estimated at 40 million pounds.
