Argentine striker Hernan Crespo

Hernan Crespo - Argentine former football player and coach, who is without a professional contract to date. However, he is still very young - he was only in '41. When Hernan Crespo was a football player, he played as a central striker.

Early career

Hernan Crespo was born June 5, 1975 in the Argentine city of Florida, where he started playing football. However, the professional team, he was quite late - only in the age of sixteen he joined the youth academy of the local football club "River Plate", one of the strongest in the country. It was there and Hernan had been trained, and in 1993 signed a professional contract in adulthood. Then he made his debut in the main team, playing 28 matches and scoring 16 goals in them. It was an impressive result for such a young player, and it has attracted a lot of attention. Over the next two seasons, he played back in 56 matches by checking another 20 goals. But the athlete was not enough to score goals brilliantly - Hernan Crespo, like all the players who wanted to play in Europe. In the summer of 1996, he signed a contract with the Italian "Parma", paying him four million euros. Thus began the formation of one of the most famous Latin American hitters of his era.

footballer

The "Parma", which became the first European club for the striker, Hernán began to score their first goals upscale. Already in the first season, Hernan Crespo scored 12 accurate hits, then their number is gradually increasing. Just a "Parma", he spent four years, scoring eighty heads. Naturally, it attracted the attention of larger clubs who were willing to offer an impressive amount. In summer 2000, another Italian club, "Lazio", posted a record for a player at the time the amount of - € 55 million. Having played there for two seasons, coming on the field 73 times and scoring 48 goals, Hernán moved into the "Inter", which gave him already much smaller amount - 36 million. At the new site, he played 30 matches, having featured 16 accurate hits. One year later, he moved to England, signing a contract with London "Chelsea". But there lingered briefly, scoring just 12 goals in 31 matches - it was the worst season in his career in European football. As a result, already in 2004 the football player went on loan back in Italy, in the "Milan" which has scored 18 goals in 40 games. Hernan was in "Chelsea" for the next year, but again had not the best season, the difference is only 13 goals. Therefore, in the summer of 2006 for two years, Crespo went on loan to "Inter", which in the meantime has scored 27 goals in 69 matches. The result was satisfactory for the Milan club, which signed a contract with a player since his contract with "Chelsea" was calculated only until 2008. However, Hernan Crespo, whose biography is included already a lot of games for various top European clubs, has gradually moved down the slope of his career. Therefore, for the year in the "Inter", he scored only two goals in 17 matches, and then moved to the "Genoa". He spent half a year, scoring 7 goals in 21 games, and then decided to return to the club where his career began in Europe - "Parma". There he played for two years, coming on the field 50 times and scoring another 14 goals. And in February 2012, Crespo announced that completes his professional career at the age of 37 years.

for the national team appearances

In Argentina Crespo made his debut in 1997, but was first invoked in 1995, but then remained on the bench in all matches. When it first came out on the field, he immediately scored his first goal in the national team of Venezuela gate. Immediately afterwards, he was invited to his first major tournament - the World Cup in 1998. Then he entered the field only once, not checking out productive activities. But in the next 2002 World Cup, he has played in all matches (though leaving them for replacement) and scored a goal against Sweden. World Cup 2006 proved to be the last for Crespo in his career - and the most productive. In four games, he scored three goals and gave three assists. The last match for the national team played Hernán in 2007, scoring one goal Colombians gate. During his career, he spent 63 match by checking out their 34 goals.

Career Coach

Where not only played Hernan Crespo - "Chelsea" in England, "Milan", "Inter", "Lazio" and the other in Italy constitute an impressive track record. But ending his playing career, he retired from football. Already in 2014, the summer Crespo received a coaching license and has headed the youth of the "Parma", which was led for a year, after which he was offered the position of head coach of the modest "Modena". But there he has not even lasted until the end of the season - was fired in March, when 35 games of his team won only 11 games. While that Crespo did not receive new offers, so at the moment it does not have a permanent job.