Hernán Crespo

Soccer Player

Hernán Crespo was born in Florida, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina on July 5th, 1975 and is the Soccer Player. At the age of 48, Hernán Crespo biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Hern
Date of Birth
July 5, 1975
Nationality
Italy, Argentina
Place of Birth
Florida, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Age
48 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Profession
Association Football Manager, Association Football Player
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184cm
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Dark brown
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Hernán Crespo Life

Hernán Jorge Crespo (Spanish pronunciation: [eɾˈnaŋ ˈxoɾxe ˈkɾespo]; born 5 July 1975) is an Argentine professional football coach and former player. He is the current manager of Qatari club Al-Duhail.

A prolific striker, Crespo scored over 300 goals in a career spanning 19 years. At international level, he scored 35 goals and is Argentina's fourth highest goalscorer behind only Sergio Agüero, Gabriel Batistuta and Lionel Messi. He played in three FIFA World Cups: 1998, 2002, 2006. At club level, Crespo was the world's most expensive player, when he was bought by Lazio from Parma in 2000 for €56 million (£35.5 million). He was top scorer in the 2000–01 Serie A with 26 goals, playing for Lazio.

Crespo's awards include three Serie A scudetti, a Copa Libertadores, a Premier League title and an Olympic Games silver medal. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. Crespo never received a red card during his career.

Personal life

In May 2005, Crespo married equestrian Alessia Andra Rossi, with whom he has three children. She is Italian.

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Hernán Crespo Career

Club career

As River Plate captured the Apertura league championship, Crespo made his debut with River Plate during the 1993–94 season, scoring 13 goals in 25 league appearances. In 1996, he helped River win the Copa Libertadores by scoring twice in the home leg of the final in Buenos Aires.

Crespo won the silver medal with Argentina at the 1996 Summer Olympics and finished as the top scorer with six goals on River Plate for Parma on August 14, 1996. He struggled to score in his first six months with the club and was booed often, with head coach Carlo Ancelotti chastising Crespo for keeping faith with the team's pick. Crespo's faith was also rewarded in 27 games in his first Serie A season, with Parma finishing runners-up to Juventus. The pivotal point was the standing ovation he received against Cagliari in March 1997. Parma won the 1998–99 Coppa Italia, scoring the first goal in Parma's 3–0 UEFA Cup final victory over Marseille. In four seasons, he had scored 80 goals.

Lazio set a new world transfer record in 2000 by paying £35 million (they paid £16 million in cash and moved Matas Almeyda and Sérgio Conceiço) to Crespo, who in turn finished as the top scorer in Serie A with 26 goals. Lazio lost its league title in 2001, and Crespo continued to suffer from some injuries in the following year, while new signings Jaap Stam and Gaizka Mendieta failed to live up to their names, following the departures of playmakers Juan Sebastián Verón and Pavel Nedvd's departures. Crespo was left without the offensive assistance he had enjoyed in 2001, but he nevertheless had a respectable number of goals. However, Lazio's financial woes did not compel the club to sell several players, and following Alessandro Nesta's transfer to A.C. Milan, rumors regarding Crespo's future soared.

Crespo, who suffered from injury, has signed Inter Milan as a replacement for former player Ronaldo for a €26 million fee and Bernardo Corradio on August 31, 2002. Corradi was later re-valued to €5.5 million by Lazio. After the highly rated Mohamed Kallon was hospitalized in August, Inter was short of strikers, and only lvaro Recoba and Christian Vieri, as well as reserves Bernardo and Nicola Ventola, were available.

Crespo scored seven goals in 18 Serie A appearances, as well as nine goals in 12 Champions League games, before being forced to miss four months by injury in early 2003.

Crespo was transferred to Chelsea, a Premier League club, on August 26, 2003, sparking a controversy over suspected false accounting. Following the transfer, Christian Vieri, Inter's former strike partner, said the club is effectively "weakening" by selling players of such caliber. In a 2–2 home draw against Blackburn Rovers on August 30, 2003, he made his league debut in a substitute for Adrian Mutu. Crespo made his European debut on September 16, 2003, overtaking Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink in the 2003–04 Champions League group stage, which resulted in a 1–0 victory over Sparta Prague after a late penalty by William Gallas. In a 5–0 away win over Wolverhampton Wanderers four days later, he scored his first goals, a double. Crespo made 31 appearances (including 19 in the league) in all leagues, scoring 12 goals.

Chelsea manager José Mourinho took over Chelsea's duties for the 2004-05 season, Crespo became a hole in Chelsea's plans following the recruitment of Didier Drogba and loaned to A.C. Milan, as requested by then-manager Carlo Ancelotti. In the 2005 UEFA Champions League Finals against Liverpool, he scored a total of ten league goals and twice.

Crespo was the first player to score for five teams in the league after moving from South America to Europe in 1996, scoring in a Champions League goal for Milan.

Mourinho, Chelsea's failed attempts to recruit a big-name striker during the summer of 2005, needed competition for striker Didier Drogba and decided to recall Crespo from A.C. Milan, reminding him that he had a future in England. Crespo made his first appearance in a 2–1 FA Community Shield victory over Arsenal. In the 93rd minute of Chelsea's season opener, he scored his first league goal of 2005 against newly promoted Wigan Athletic, with a left foot curler against the top corner from 25 yards. Crespo's first league title appearance in European football came from the 2005–06 league championships.

Despite scoring 13 goals in all leagues and winning the 2005-06 Premier League, Crespo requested a return to Italy in order to rejoin A.C. Milan, but Chelsea refused and said Crespo will remain a Chelsea player until Chelsea accepted a suitable bid for him. Crespo joined Inter on a two-year loan on August 7, 2006. He scored his 125th Serie A goal against Siena on December 2, 2006, his 200th career goal in Europe, on April 2nd, 2007. Inter defeated Lazio 4-3 and win the Scudetto on May 13th, with Crespo on a hat-trick.

Following the expiration of his deal, Crespo was released from Chelsea on July 3, 2008, and Inter Inter was signed by Inter on a one-year deal for free. Crespo's former Chelsea boss José Mourinho made 13 Serie A appearances in 2008–09, with two of them debuting. He was kicked out of the Champions League team.

Crespo was snapped up by Genoa following Inter's departure, although Diego Milito's role was moved in the opposite direction. Crespo had a medical check to document his transfer on June 8, 2009, according to a news on Sunday. Crespo cited his aspiration to make the Argentina 2010 World Cup squad as one of his main reasons for moving to Genoa. Crespo scored his first goal of the 2009 season against Napoli on September 13th.

Crespo, who had agreed to the terms with Atalanta and Genoa, returned to Parma in January 2010. Crespo replaced Nicola Amoruso, who left for Atalanta, while Atalanta's Robert Acquafresca moved to Genoa to replace Crespo. After ten years in Parma, the Argentine striker returned. Crespo scored just once against Livorno before the season ended, but not before it was over. He had a more fruitful 2010-2011 season, scoring 11 goals. For the fourth time, he became Parma's top scorer for the fourth time, which remains a Parma record. Despite growing rumors of his departure, Crespo decided to commit a one-year contract extension on June 30, 2011. Crespo and Parma then decided to end his employment on February 2nd, 2012, despite the fact that he had fallen in love with the city he had fallen in love with. With 94 goals in 201 appearances, he is the club's all-time record goalscorer.

Despite Crespo's promise to play in Bengal Premier League Soccer in late January 2012 with a salary of £533,000, the tournament's second month, hasn't started. He confirmed that his playing career had ended in November 2012.

International career

In a friendly match against Bulgaria in February 1995, Crespo won his first cap for Argentina. He was a participant of Argentina's 1996 King Fahd Cup, the predecessor to the FIFA Confederations Cup.

Crespo was a member of Argentina's men's football team in 1996. Crespo also aided Argentina in the quarter-finals and Portugal in the semi-final, defeating Spain and Portugal. However, Argentina lost the final to Nigeria, despite Crespo's sixth goal of the tournament from the penalty spot.

Crespo scored his first goal for Argentina's senior team in 1998 World Cup qualifier against Ecuador, defeating FR Yugoslavia in a pre-World Cup friendly for the first time. Crespo was drafted to the final roster of the 1998 World Cup but he made just one substitution appearance, as Gabriel Batistuta led the Argentine assault. In the second round penalty shoot-out with England, David Seaman saved Crespo's attempt, but Argentina defeated Argentina 4–3.

Crespo led Argentina with nine goals in qualifying for the 2002 World Cup. Batistuta was again favored to Crespo as Argentina's starting center center forward during the finals. In all three group matches, including the final match against Sweden, which Argentina needed to win in order to qualify for the second round, Crespo came as a substitute. Despite Crespo's 88th-minute equalizer, it wasn't to be enough, and Argentina was eliminated.

Batistuta retired from international football after the 2002 World Cup, and Crespo took over as Argentina's number 9. Crespo scored seven times, including two goals, in Argentina's 3–1 victory over Brazil in Buenos Aires, which sealed qualification and made him Argentina's longest scoring leader in World Cup qualifiers.

In Argentina's first match against the Ivory Coast, Crespo scored their first goal of the 2006 World Cup. He also scored in the upcoming game against Serbia and Montenegro (6–0) and in the second round match against Mexico. Argentina's bid came to an end, as the host country Germany had to call Argentina on penalties in the quarter-finals.

Crespo's last appearances for Argentina came at 2007 Copa América. In Argentina's 4–1 victory over the United States in Group C, he scored twice, tying Diego Maradona's team scoring record. In Argentina's second match, he defeated Maradona by scoring a penalty kick against Colombia. However, he was recalled immediately after receiving the kick due to injury and missed the remainder of the tournament.

Crespo did not get any further calls for the national team after the Copa América and ended his international career with 35 goals in 64 matches, becoming Argentina's fourth best goalscorer of all time.

Post-playing and managerial career

Crespo said on November 12th that he would pursue a career in teaching and that he would begin working in early July 2013.

During the 2014-2015 season, he served as youth coach for Parma's Primavera team. Crespo was appointed as the new boss of Serie B club Modena following Parma's disbandment on June 30, 2015. He was fired on March 26, 2016, with the club just one point over the relegation zone.

Jiang Lizhang, a Chinese businessman, bought 60% of Parma's stock and named Crespo as the club's new vice president on June 22nd. He started as a technical advisor for Jiang's firm Desport.

Crespo was named as the club's new club ambassador on January 2, 2018, with the club opting to exclude the figure of vice president from the board.

Crespo, the manager of Argentina's Primera División Banfield, was appointed on an 18-month contract on December 19, 2018. He was banned five games into the next season in September 2019, after finishing 16th in his first season, with only winning one of those games.

Crespo was appointed the head of Defensa y Justicia on January 25, 2020, which also ranks in the top tier of Argentina. After beating Club Atlético Lanca by 3–0 on January 23, 2021, he led Defensa y Justicia to their first international trophy.

Crespo was appointed head of Brazilian Série A club Só Paulo on a two-year contract on February 12, 2021. In a 1–1 home draw with Botafogo-SP on the first day of the Campeonato Paulista, he made his debut 16 days later on the first day of the Campeonato Paulista. He won the title on May 23 after a 2–0 aggregate victory over Palmeiras; this was the club's first appearance in nine years and the first in the tournament since 2005.

Crespo left S. Paulo on a mutual agreement on October 13th, 2021. After 25 games, the club finished 13th in the national league, with team legend Rogério Ceni replacing him.

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