The Mexican forward spoke about Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, ‘Jimmy’ Lozano and his dream of reaching the 2026 World Cup.
In the midst of his recovery from a severe injury to his right knee, which took him to the operating room and kept him off the field for the remainder of the season for the LA Galaxy, Javier Hernandez had the opportunity to talk with the journalist Rodrigo Larto give a few words exclusively to Paramount+.
The top scorer in the history of the Mexican National Team spoke about various topics and in GOAL We bring you an account of his statements:
What did you learn from Sir Alex Ferguson?
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“I have always said it, what I learned the most is how to manage the players and to manage the players, he had to know his players, because to be able to manage such a large squad and also to manage other teams makes it clear that Not everyone needs the same thing, not everyone works in the same way. The coach is almost always unfair because there will always be people who will not agree with your decisions, but I think the way he handled it when I was there was spectacular, that’s why we won the leagues we won and we almost won a Champions League, and we won other tournaments. That’s why, because he knew his players, he knew them authentically, not just because they were players and that’s it, but because he knew their families completely.” .
Who were your best friends in the Manchester United dressing room?
“I didn’t have best friends and in football ‘best friends’ is always complicated because you travel a lot in the world. For example, I even have 5 best friends and there are some who are not even from my country, nor have they been with me. The people I was with the most were Rio (Ferdinand) was one of them, Patrice (Evra) was another, the da Silva twins (Fábio and Rafael), Anderson, when David de Gea arrived in the second year I spent a lot of time with him, I also had a lot of relationship with Nani. The thing is that in the team and in the club, as always in all clubs there are always groups or people with whom you can always get along more or less, but there were many people who spoke Spanish or Portuguese in that moment, then we got along a lot.”
Any goal that you remember in the Premier League?
“One of the most important ones I had was the one I scored at 32 seconds against Chelsea, because starting that very important match at our home, which was the rival against whom we were fighting in the Premier League at that time and at 32 seconds being 1 -0 up was very important. Then, Nemanja Vidic scored the second and then I think Didier (Drogba) made it 2-1 and that’s how the game stayed.”
What memories do you have of your time at West Ham?
“With West Ham I think it’s a story that happened to me like in Sevilla, that unfortunately there were actions there that could have been done in the best way and maybe it could have had a different story because they are 2 clubs, that I could have identified with a lot. with them also for the fans because they are great fans. At West Ham situations happened there, well… that cannot be planned, obviously I had a past that was not the most profitable, for example, when I was with David Moyes in Manchester and everyone knew it. So, 5 or 6 games after Slaven Bilić, who was the coach at the time, did everything so that I could go to West Ham, then when they fired him they hired David Moyes.”
How do you see Edson Álvarez with the Hammers?
“Well, I think it’s a good step for him in his career after Ajax and also to gain experience in this league, which I think will be very good for him and also in his position. Well, as we’re seeing right now, West Ham He is very good. Also speaking of David Moyes, he is a person who is more defensive than offensive, from my point of view, beyond the fact that he has teams that are also doing very well. He is going to be very good for Edson, I think he is going to to be very good in his career.
How is Raúl Jiménez going to do at Fulham?
“Well, I don’t know how he’s going to do, but we wish him, like Edson, that I hope he can reach that level that he showed us when he was at Wolverhampton those years before his unfortunate accident. I hope he can return to that level because of course “All of us as Mexicans miss him and we know the ability he has.”
What does Mexican soccer have to do to be able to bring more players to Europe?
“Well, sell them cheaper. Look at Chávez, who has to go to Dinamo (Moscow), which is a great team and plays in Europe, but I do believe that he could have gone to another team. I say that we have to sell cheaper. Don’t go that far, I’m going to speak from my experience and it could be one in a million, and it could be anything, but they have sold me for 7 million dollars, so I I was doing Manchester United, even Vergara knew that he could have sold me for 20 and maybe they would pay it. It wasn’t a question of money, it was a question of giving me the opportunity. He also later gave it to Ulises Dávila to Chelsea, who also didn’t “It was so expensive, but unfortunately it couldn’t be given to Uli as we all would have wanted. But that’s the thing, I think it’s selling cheaper.”
How was your time at Real Madrid?
“Incredible, exceptional and I have also always divided it as the first 6 months were very complicated because I didn’t play practically anything, I played very little, beyond the fact that I did play and everything. Then, some unfortunate injuries arose and I was given the opportunity in The second period of the semester was extraordinary and it was something unique, memorable, and I thought that this was going to help a lot so that when I returned to Manchester United I could possibly stay there to have opportunities, which later everything started to happen when I went to Germany, “It was also spectacular for me and they were 2 wonderful years in that city of Leverkusen and they treated me phenomenally. But yes, my time at Real Madrid was something unique, special, indescribable, like a dream.”
What was it like playing with Cristiano Ronaldo?
“A wonderful thing, and apart from that I have always mentioned it, being in teams like those of Real Madrid and Manchester United, beyond the admiration, respect and everything, how incredible it is to have them as teammates, well imagine, they are tools at your disposal.” Please have them with you and not have them against you. So playing with Cris, apart from that I think that something that many people do not mention is obviously we know the impact he has, but something that is phenomenal within a locker room is as well as his way of being, I believe that I have not met and have not seen, that a player, and I can confirm it, has come out to say that Cris is a difficult or complicated person. Cris is Cris, we know his personality and competitiveness, but as a teammate they are also one of the things that I have taken away, because he and I had talks that would not have happened if he had not allowed them either. People have seen Cris in a very arrogant and very contemptuous way, but I think he is a very honest person, very frank, and that he is not going to lie to you.
How do you see Lionel Messi’s bombing of the MLS?
“Well, like everyone, I think it’s amazing, and that it’s going to help the country and the league in a stratospheric way. I think that all the growth that the league has shown in recent years and that it continued to show, I think that the arrival of Leo Messi is going to advance a few years from my point of view in all that impact that he is going to generate worldwide as he is doing. Besides, as I told you, they won the Leagues Cup and also scoring almost every game, now Miami has the probability of qualifying for the Play-Offs thanks to him and that if he had not arrived they would have been almost left for dead. Now there is also the hope that they can qualify in a very heroic way because they have a very difficult time.”
How do you see the arrival of Jaime Lozano to Tri?
“I love him and I like him a lot, I think he is a player, something that has not been mentioned either and I would have loved to say it from any opportunity that I would have had in the media. We know how it was very complicated for ‘Jimmy’ who did not He could have gone to a World Cup and I think that this little thorn of also wanting to give something back to Mexican soccer is something so important. Beyond his talent and beyond everything he has shown as a coach, I think that he personally knows, he has lived , and he has also experienced the not so good times of being in a National Team, and I think he can understand many players, he can have a very good relationship with them. He is a person if you can see him, very serene, very even-tempered, very successful , but also in the National Team I think that ‘Jimmy’ Lozano deserved to have many more achievements at the National Team level and that could not happen because that is football.”
Do you dream of being in the World Cup in Mexico in 2026?
“Yeah”.
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2023-09-28 21:20:24
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