Javier Hernandez

Keertan Salian
3 min readDec 12, 2020

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Javier Hernandez is commonly known as Chicharito. He is among the underrated striker Premier League history. He played for clubs like Manchester United, Real Madrid, Sevilla, West Ham United, Bayer Leverkusen and current player for LA Galaxy. His youth club was Guadalajara.

He marked his first senior appearance for his youth club in 2006 and made 64 appearances and scored 26 goals. Manchester United was first made aware about Chicharito in 2009 October but they were waiting for the right time to make a deal. After his potential involvement with the national team at World Cup, Manchester United couldn't wait any longer to make a deal and on July 1st 2010 the official deal was done. With Manchester United, he made 103 appearances and scored 37 goals. He was the first Mexican player to join Manchester United and scoring 20 Goals and winning the Premier League title in his debut season.

After Sir Alex Ferguson's retired many players including Hernandez career were in danger as the next managers were unhappy with their performance. He couldn't perform well under David Moyes and Louis van Gaal. He spent 2014-15 season at Real Madrid on loan where he made 23 appearances and scored 7 goals. On August 31, 2015, Hernandez signed a three year deal with Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen for an undisclosed fee reportedly£7.3 million. He made a total of 54 appearances 28 goals. In 2017 after spending 2 seasons in Germany he returned to Premier League and joined West Ham United having over 50 appearances he managed to score 16 goals but unfortunately, he was sold in 2019 to Spanish Side Sevilla and made 9 appearances and scored only 1 goal. In 2020 he signed to LA Galaxy and scored 2 goals till now.

With National Team Mexico he made his debut in 2009 September against Colombia in a friendly match. He represented his country for FIFA World Cup 2010. He made a total of 109 appearances and scored 52 goals for his country.

Chicharito was two times top scorer in 09/10 and 10/11 season. One time Player of the year in 2010/11 for Mexico. He won 2 Premier League titles with Manchester United and one English Community Shield Winner in 2011. With Mexico, he won one Gold Cup Winner in 2011. With Real Madrid, he won FIFA Club World Cup Winner in 2015. One Mexican Champion in 06/07 with his youth club. One Europa League Winner in 19/20 season with Sevilla FC

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