The origin of the alleged enmity between the footballers – El Financiero

Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez y Francisco Guillermo Ochoa greeted each other again during the Showcase Leagues Cup after three years without playing together in the Mexican National Team.

The Galaxy striker was already leaving the pitch SoFi Stadium of Los Angeles when he was called to greet the America goalkeeper. “Paco Memo, how are you? How is the family?” Hernandez said, followed by a hug.

“The face of ‘Chicharito’ says it all”, “How much hypocrisy” and “The hug of Judas”, commented some people in the video shared on Twitter by MLS in Spanish, referring to the alleged enmity of both players since El Tri’s all-time top scorer is not called up for this one.

Why are ‘Chicharito’ and Ochoa ‘fighting’?

The last time Javier Hernández wore the shirt of the Mexican team It was on September 10, 2019 in a game they lost 4-0 to Argentina in the United States.

The night before that match, ‘Chicharito’, Ochoa, Miguel Layun, Andres Guardado, Hector Moreno y Marco Fabian They attended a brunch at the LAVO restaurant in New York, organized by Hernández, according to various media. The players were photographed together with some women. Layún assured hours later, in a video, that they had permission from the National Team and that he did not know those women.

The relationship between “Chicharito” and “Paco Memo” began to break after the striker asked not to be summoned to Tri for the 2019 Gold Cup due to the birth of his first son, Noah. The goalkeeper, on the other hand, did participate in the tournament despite the fact that he also became the father of his third child on those dates.

“Watch what? He makes of his life what he wants as I make of mine. That’s not why he’s a better person/footballer than anyone else. Not even for what he decided in my situation does he make me a better person / soccer player than anyone else. Hug”, Hernández replied, on Twitter, to the journalist Felipe Morales, who tagged him and told him “Watch out, Chicharito”, about a note that Ochoa had only seen his newborn daughter for a couple of days to be with the National Team .

The then player of the West Ham United he ‘hooked’ on the publication of another tweeter minutes later and replied: “And in the hypothetical case that you don’t win [la Copa Oro]Although I am very confident and certain that our country will win, aren’t the sacrifices worth it then? There is no book for how to live. Each one deep within himself has his life guide. And none is better or worse than another.

Another reason for the conflict between the Chivas youth squad and his teammates from El Tri would have been the claim that he made, prior to the Russia World Cup 2018, for the way in which the income for the use of their image in the Mexican National Team with the sponsors was distributed among the players.

‘Chicharito’ and Layún (one of his best friends) were not called up for the next matches of the Mexican National Team in 2020.

“There are people who are quite informed about what happened and even so, I don’t know for what purpose or with what vision, they spoke behind my back and said many things that seem to me to be an important disrespect,” Layún said about his absence. on the team in an interview with TUDN in January 2020.

From then until now, both ‘Chicharito’ and the technical director of the Mexican National Team, Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino, and even the captain Andrés Guardado denied any conflict or that the former Manchester United player was banned from the team.

“Regarding the conflicts that he [’Chicharito] may have with a footballer and that may take him away from the National Team, in no case will it be an issue that I am going to explain publicly, ”Martino said in May 2021 at a press conference. “Javier is not on this list because we opted for four other center forwards, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be called up at another time.”

In June 2022 it was rumored that ‘Chicharito’ would meet with Martino to talk about his absence in the National Team; The Galaxy player confirmed the meeting to reporters, but did not elaborate on it.

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