Childhood friends Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez and Marco Fabian had a so-called Mexican Skype Duel, courtesy of the Bundesliga's official YouTube account. Hernandez and Fabian grew up in the Chivas Guadalajara youth system together, and have been reunited this season in the Bundesliga, at Bayer Leverkusen and Eintracht Frankfurt respectively.
It's not exactly a secret that Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez has been having a great year for Bayer Leverkusen, but even we didn't realize he was having by far his best season ever.
He has 25 goals already this season, which is the most he has ever scored in his club career. He kept it going against Cologne this weekend:
Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez is having a career season in Germany right now. The Bayer Leverkusen/Mexico National Team striker has 25 goal in 35 games for Leverkusen.
The Little pea spoke to Bundesliga.com about his transition to Germany and the factors that have made him so successful this year.
Here at The18, we love all things Chicharito. Coming back from a successful international break where Mexico progressed to the final round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying, he continued his Bundesliga success with his 15th goal of the season, a beautiful curling effort that put Bayer Leverkusen up 2 - 0.
Chicharito es uno de los nombres más importantes del fútbol mexicano. El exjugador del Guadalajara ha tenido una carrera increíble en la que ha logrado hitos con los que la mayoría de los jugadores del mundo solo pueden soñar.
Desde ganar un título en su país de origen hasta jugar en posiblemente dos de los equipos más grandes de la historia del fútbol, Chicharito casi lo ha logrado todo. Es por eso que hoy les traemos sus mejores momentos, incluyendo las decisiones y acciones que han dado forma a la historia del delantero mexicano.
Bayer Leverkusen and Mexico striker Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez's departure from his previous club Manchester United was, um, acrimonious.
Current United manager Louis van Gaal clearly didn't want Hernandez in the squad and told him there was very little chance of him playing striker for United. Hernendez was sent to Germany, where he has lit the world on fire (23 goals so far this season in all competitions).
OK, first the bad news: Bayer Leverkusen lost 3-1 to Mainz 05 Sunday. The good news: that one goal happened to be scored by recently-returned-from-injury striker Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez.
Hernandez now has 23 goals in all competitions for Leverkusen, and 14 in the Bundesliga.
GOAL, Leverkusen! Chicharito gets one back for the visitors, but is it too little too late? https://t.co/90ahZ6Etpj
Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez hurt his butt a while back, but he's back in action and, two games into his comeback, he's already setting up goals.
Hernandez set up Karim Bellarabi's first goal (of two), and Bayer Leverkusen went on to beat Portuguese side Sporting CP 3-1 and advance to the Europa League round of 16.
Chicharito limped out of Bayer Leverkusen's DFB Pokal loss to Werder Bremen, and now we have an update.
Chicharito injury blow!@bayer04_en will be without their goal machine @CH14_ against @sv98 this weekend. pic.twitter.com/ISDG8EOpLc
Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez continues to surprise. The CONCACAF 2015 Player of the Year continues to shine in Europe, scoring a brace for Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga against Hannover Saturday.
The former super-sub turned super-starter at the German club is in great form, scoring his 13th goal in the league out of 16 appearances, demonstrating his importance to the German club and highlighting the reason why big clubs are looking to sign him during the winter transfer window.