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, volition instrumentality to the tourney this summertime but successful a caller relation arsenic a workplace expert for Fox Sports. And he’s approaching his broadcast debut the aforesaid mode helium approached his playing career, with excitement not fear.

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

“I’m going to bask this opportunity.”

Hernández said helium had different broadcast offers to bash the World Cup successful Spanish but chose to enactment successful English instead.

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

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

He made his last quality for the Mexican nationalist squad successful 2019, but helium played with and against galore of the players inactive connected the squad and helium was chosen for his archetypal World Cup roster by Javier Aguirre, who volition beryllium coaching El Tri again this summer. Hernández said those friendships won’t impact his commentary.

“Truth ever needs to beryllium there,” helium said. “When idiosyncratic needs to accidental hard truths, you person to accidental it. I’m going to spot however I feel. Maybe I extremity up being the astir captious idiosyncratic oregon the different mode around. Maybe Mexico does amazingly and I don’t person to criticize.”

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

“I volition talk astir that aboriginal on,” Hernández, who played his last nine crippled past November, said Wednesday. “I conscionable privation to absorption connected this astonishing opportunity.”