JAVIER HERNANDEZ

Javier Hernández Balcázar born 1 June 1988 is a Mexican soccer player who plays as a forward for Manchester United and the Mexican national team. Hernández plays with his nickname, Chicharito (little pea), on his shirt. He previously played for the Mexican club Chivas before becoming the first Mexican player to join Manchester United.
Hernández made his debut for Mexico in September 2009 in a match against Colombia, he also represented them at the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup. He was the Gold Cup's top scorer with 7 goals and was named the most valuable player of the tournament.  He has made 33 appearances for Mexico and scored 23 goals.  Hernández was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco and first played in a recreation league when he was seven years old. His father, Javier Hernández Gutiérrez, himself a previous Mexican international striker, said he never thought his son would actually make it as a professional. Hernández joined Chivas at the age of nine and signed his first professional contract when he was 15.  He was set to play in the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship, but he was cut due to injury from the team that ultimately won the championship.  C.D. Guadalajara


Hernández began playing with Chivas lower division team, Chivas Coras in Tepic, Nayarit in the 2005–06 season. He made his debut for Chivas in the 2006 Apertura in a win over Necaxa at Estadio Jalisco. With the score at 3–0, Hernández came on as a substitute for Omar Bravo in the 82nd minute, before scoring the fourth goal of the game five minutes later. It was his only goal in seven appearances in 2006–07. He made a further six appearances in 2007–08 without scoring.
Hernández made ten appearances in the 2008 Apertura without scoring, but he scored four goals in fifteen appearances in the 2009 Clausura. In the 2009 Apertura, Hernández finished as the joint-third top scorer, with eleven goals in seventeen appearances.  He started the 2010 Torneo Bicentenario with eight goals in five games.  He finished as a joint-leader in the goalscoring chart for the 2010 Torneo Bicentenario, with ten goals in eleven games and after spent 5 matches without playing because of an injury he suffered.


Hernández on his Manchester United debut
Manchester United were first made aware of Hernández in October 2009; a scout went to Mexico that December and reported positively after watching a few games. Because of Hernández's age, the club originally planned to wait before making a move to sign him, but his potential involvement with Chivas rushed him into the club. United's chief scout, Jim Lawlor, was sent to Mexico for three weeks in February and March to watch Hernández and filed another positive report on him, before the club solicitor went over to Mexico to finalise the paperwork.
On 8 April 2010, Hernández agreed a deal to sign for Manchester United for an undisclosed fee, subject to a work permit application.  The previous day, Hernández had been present at Manchester United's Champions League quarter-final win over Bayern Munich at Old Trafford.  The deal was conducted in complete secrecy; Hernández's agent was kept in the dark, as was his grandfather Tomás Balcázar, who thought Hernández was going on a trip to Atlanta in the United States.  As part of the deal, United played a friendly against Chivas to open their new stadium on 30 July.  On 27 May, the work permit was granted, allowing the transfer to be made official on 1 July. 
2010–11 season