Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández (Guadalajara, 1988) Know better than anyone nights in the Santiago Bernabéu. He had to see his team eliminated in 2013 with the Manchester Unitedalthough that lived from the bench, but two years later he returned, wrapped in the white shirt, to eliminate the Atlético de Madrid With one of his most memorable goals.
Minutes after Gabriel Martinelli condemn to real Madrid To fall eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, the top scorer in the history of Mexico attended Efe, as an ambassador of the Enterprise Rent-A Car brand, to analyze the present of those of Carlos Ancelottithe figure of the Italian coach, comparisons Cristiano Ronaldo-Kylian Mbappé and the disasters of Manchester United.
First of all, what do you think of what happened to Real Madrid?
You have to give merit to the rivals as well. To a team like Real Madrid we must always demand the maximum end of accounts its history dictates the demand itself. Winning so many Champions, always fighting for glasses, by titles, is what it has. The demand is there.
But you have to put everything in proportion. More than talking about this second leg, the first leg was crucial. We know Real Madrid with the comebacks, the goals in the last minutes, but you cannot lose a 3-0 game. That’s where everything gets more complicated, very uphill.
Everyone expected Arsenal to be involved and not. In every ball that Courtois pressed as if they had to score another goal. You have to give them credit. Madrid has traced many games, but now it could not be, it is not to settle for it either, you always have to wait as long as it is either you have to do more than it is.
He has always spoken very well about Ancelotti, how he took care of him in his year at Real Madrid. Do you think it is fair to criticize you with everything that has been achieved?
I do not know if it is fair or unfair, because when you do not achieve the objectives that you marked at the beginning of the season, you have to assume that, but I think, and I want to say it with all possible respect for Ancelotti, if the tradition has so much weight in certain clubs, you do not have to load the hand so much. It is not the same if you are a coach who has not won anything than if you are a coach who has won many European glasses, leagues, trophies, etc. That’s where the memory that has to exist enters. When you don’t win the Champions League, you have to wait, because the cup is still, the league … can end with a double. Your past allows you in the end that you do not load your hand so much, because if not then what it uses you have won so much. Nor do I say that you do not have to criticize when things do not come out, but it is not the same when you have not won absolutely anything than when you have won a lot.
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Can Mbappé be what was Christian at Real Madrid?
More than comparing it with Cristiano, Mbappé has all the determination to be one of the best in the world for a long time. He overcame the goals of my maximum idol, the Ronaldo phenomenon, in his first season and that many people wanted to see him as the new hazard. It is what gives you to be in Madrid, they give you many completely disproportionate things, because when you are up there are going to be many people who want to look for you the slightest defect to feel that they are up to it. Mbappé is already world champion, he is captain of his selection, Benzema also passed and then won the Golden Ball … I think he is very well wrapped, in the best club in the world and that he will help him a lot to be the best in the world and maintain it.
Twelve years ago you won the last Premier of Manchester United, Ferguson’s last, if they had told him that the club was going to be as it is, he would have surprised him a lot, I imagine.
I would have surprised me. I didn’t expect so many years, but several transition was waiting for me. You cannot replace overnight or in five years the best coach of all time, in my opinion, such as Alex Ferguson. In England they have a different patience to other countries, but I think it is time, that with the new coach they will fight for the Europa League. Hopefully in the league they will not continue to go down positions, but, of course, the clubs that have always been at the top and are not, and that it costs them so much work to return, generates a lot of discomfort and many doubts. They have taken more than I expected, but it is time to demand results. The transition time is over.
And he was surprised to take the pension for Ferguson’s United?
More than looking at that, what I can say is that Ferguson, without already being in that role as coach, has come out to say that he is happy to help the club, tells you the love he has at United. Going into those details of saving money or not, people are going to talk, but that a personality like Ferguson is paying that or not … it is a gesture of the club for him, but it is not worth talking about it. I think people have used it to criticize United.
What would you give why the 2026 World Cup in Mexico, your home, would have caught something younger and be able to be there?
Nothing. At 36 years old I played three World Cups, I marked four goals, the first one to France, like my grandfather in 1954, I am the top scorer of the National Team so far … I would change absolutely anything.
What is your mission in Enterprise Rent-A-Car?
A: Collaborate in the best way I can in this country and with the Europa League. I contribute as a footballer my image, for all the promotions that this company makes. I am very happy to be able to collaborate with them, with a company that trusts a lot in football. I like that I take into account what I can generate and contribute to this company that helps people when they travel and make their stay.
