Javier Hernández Balcazar (born on June 1, 1988 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) also known as El Chíchapito, is a Mexican footballer currently playing with Chivas de Guadalajara in Primera División as a Forward.

[edit] Career

Hernández began playing with Chivas' lower division team, Chivas Coras in Tepic, Nayarit in the 2005-2006 season. He debuted for Chivas in the 2006 Apertura in a win over Necaxa, scoring the fourth goal of the game in Estadio Jalisco. He currently leads Chivas with an impressive 11 goals in 16 games in the 2009 Apertura. He is the top Mexican goal leader in the league.

[edit] Personal life

Football runs down Hernández veins, his dad played professionally with Estudiantes Tecos and his grandfather is Tomás Balcázar who played professionally his entire career with Chivas from 1948-1958, obtaining a title.

[edit] International career

[edit] Mexico national under-20 football team

One of the 21 players called up to the Mexican National Team for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup being held in Canada—he wore the number 11 shirt. Upon playing his first game against the National Team of Gambia, he scored a goal by making the goalkeeper come out and play the ball around him and easily pushing the ball into the back of the net; Mexico won 3 to 0.

[edit] Mexico National Football Team

He made his appearance with the Mexico National team on 30 September, 2009 against Colombia where he had an assist.

[edit] Copa Libertadores 2009

His outstanding performance, when he scored 2 goals against Everton helped the team qualify to the knockout round. Due to the scare of H1N1 virus, Mexican clubs had to drop-out of the tournament.[1]

[edit] Statistics

Club	Season	League		Libertadores		Sudamericana		Interliga		Superliga		Total
		GP	Goals	GP	Goals	GP	Goals	GP	Goals	GP	Goals
Guadalajara	2006-2007	8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	1
	2007-2008	6	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	0
	2008-2009	22	4	4	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	26	7
	2009-2010	15	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	11

[edit] External links

• Javier Hernández stats at MedioTiempo.com (Spanish)