Javier 'chicharito' hernández To Be Part Of Fox's World Cup Broadcast Team

Former Galaxy guardant Javier “Chicharito” Hernández, a three-time World Cup standout for Mexico, will return to nan tourney this summertime but successful a caller domiciled arsenic a workplace expert for Fox Sports. And he’s approaching his broadcast debut nan aforesaid measurement he approached his playing career, pinch excitement not fear.

“It’s nan aforesaid arsenic our sport: if you do a mistake, you cannot alteration it,” he said. “I’ve ever been a feline who sees opportunities, who sees nan positives. I’m going to effort to present my champion constituent of position connected each game, player, nan tournament.

“I’m going to bask this opportunity.”

Hernández said he had different broadcast offers to do nan World Cup successful Spanish but chose to activity successful English instead.

“I’m not going to beryllium speaking successful my first language. And that’s thing I deliberation my Mexican fellows tin beryllium inspired by, right? That I don’t spell to my comfortableness zone,” he said. “I want to make each of this an acquisition for myself. But arsenic good I tin show group that immoderate you person successful your mind, you tin execute it.”

Hernández, 37, is Mexico’s all-time starring scorer pinch 52 goals, including 4 successful World Cup play. He started and ended his nine profession pinch his hometown team, Chivas de Guadalajara, but successful betwixt he played for 5 clubs successful Europe and spent 4 injury-plagued seasons pinch nan Galaxy, scoring 38 times and making 2 All-Star teams.

He made his last quality for nan Mexican nationalist squad successful 2019, but he played pinch and against galore of nan players still connected nan squad and he was chosen for his first World Cup roster by Javier Aguirre, who will beryllium coaching El Tri again this summer. Hernández said those friendships won’t impact his commentary.

“Truth ever needs to beryllium there,” he said. “When personification needs to opportunity difficult truths, you person to opportunity it. I’m going to spot really I feel. Maybe I extremity up being nan astir captious personification aliases nan different measurement around. Maybe Mexico does amazingly and I don’t person to criticize.”

He’ll subordinate 4 different erstwhile Galaxy players — Cobi Jones, Landon Donovan, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Alexi Lalas — connected nan Fox broadcast squad for nan World Cup. Hernández, however, is nan only 1 who hasn’t formally announced his status arsenic a player.

“I will speak astir that later on,” Hernández, who played his last nine crippled past November, said Wednesday. “I conscionable want to attraction connected this astonishing opportunity.”