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{{Infobox Football biography
| playername = Hernán Crespo
| image = ]
| fullname = Hernán Jorge Crespo
| height = {{height|m=1.84}}
| dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1975|7|5}}
| cityofbirth = ]
| countryofbirth = ]
| currentclub = ]
| clubnumber = n/a
| position = ]
| years = 1993&ndash;1996<br />1996&ndash;2000<br />2000&ndash;2002<br/ >2002&ndash;2003<br />2003&ndash;<br >2004&ndash;2005<br />2006&ndash;2008
| clubs = ]<br />]<br />]<br />]<br />]<br />→ ] (loan)<br />→ ] (loan)| Collierville FC <br />
| caps(goals) = {{0}}64 (33)<br />116 (62)<br />{{0}}54 (39)<br />{{0}}18 {{0}}(7)<br />{{0}}49 (20)<br />{{0}}28 (10)<br />{{0}}48 (18)
| nationalyears = 1995&ndash;
| nationalteam = ]
| nationalcaps(goals) = {{0}}65 (36)
| pcupdate = 16:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
| ntupdate = 14:54, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
}}
'''Hernán Jorge Crespo''' (born ], ] in ]) is an ] ] who currently plays for Italian ] squad ].

==Club career==
===River Plate===
He made his debut with ] during the 1993-94 season, scoring thirteen goals in 25 league appearances. He helped River Plate win the ] league title, the second of two championships held in Argentina in that year. He helped River win the Apertura title again in 1994. In 1996, Crespo helped River win the ], scoring twice in the home leg of the final in Buenos Aires.

===Serie A===
Crespo left River Plate for ] in August 1996 after he won the ] with Argentina at the ] and finished as the top scorer with six goals. In May 1997, coached by ], Crespo scored twelve goals in 27 matches as Parma finished runners-up to ]. He won the 1998-99 ], and scored the opening goal in Parma's 3-0 ] final victory over ]. In 2000, ] broke the then-world transfer record by paying £35,500,000 to acquire Crespo, who in turn finished as Serie A's top scorer with twenty-six goals.

On 31 August 2002, Crespo signed with Internazionale as replacement for the departed ], for €20 million and ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/news/kind=1/newsid=32107.html|title=Crespo steps in for Ronaldo|author=UEFA.com|date=Saturday, 31 August 2002}}.</ref> In his only season at the club, he scored seven goals in eighteen appearances, along with nine goals in twelve ] matches until he was shelved four months by injury in early 2003.

===Chelsea===
Crespo was transferred to ] club ] on 26 August 2003 for £16,800,000. He made only 31 appearances (including nineteen league starts) in all competitions, and scored twelve goals. After ] took over as Chelsea manager for the 2004-05 season, Crespo became surplus to Chelsea's plans and was loaned to ], as requested by former coach Carlo Ancelotti. He scored ten goals, and netted twice in the ] defeat against ].

After Chelsea's failed attempts to land a big-name striker during the summer of 2005, Mourinho needed competition for striker ] and decided to recall Crespo from Milan, convincing him that he had a future in England. Crespo made his first return appearance in a 2-1 ] victory over ]. He scored his first league goal of 2005 against ] in Chelsea's season opener.
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===Inter Milan===
Though he scored 26 goals in all competitions and won the 05-06 Premiership title, Crespo requested a return to Italy in order to rejoin Milan, but Chelsea refused and announced that Crespo would remain a Chelsea player until the club accepted a suitable offer for him. On August 7, 2006, Crespo joined Inter on a two-year loan. He scored his 125th Serie A goal against ] on December 2, 2006, and his 200th career European goal on April 2, 2007.

On May 13, Crespo scored a hat-trick to help Inter defeat Lazio 4-3 and win the ''].'' Two days earlier, he had appeared in training without his customary long hair, which he had kept grown out for over five years. During the offseason, Chelsea announced that they would not exercise the option to recall Crespo, therefore releasing him from the club and making him a full-fledged Inter player, with the Serie A champions taking over the total payment of Crespo's wages.

Crespo has scored at least one Champions League goal with each of the five European teams he has played for since moving from River Plate in 1996; he is the first and only player in CL history to accomplish this feat.

==International career==
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Crespo has 66 caps and 35 goals with ]. He won his first cap in a friendly match against ] in February 1995, but then had to wait sixteen months for his second cap and more than two years for his first goal. He was called up to the final roster for the ], ], and ]s. In June 2005, Crespo scored twice in Argentina's 3-1 World Cup qualifying win over archrivals ] in Buenos Aires, which made him Argentina's career scoring leader in World Cup qualifiers. He finished the 2006 competition as the ] Award winner.

On June 28, 2007, he scored twice in Argentina's 4-1 victory over the ] in their ] Group C opener, tying ]'s team scoring record.<ref>
{{cite news
| url = http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?N=26786&L=en&IDINI=26788
| title = Crespo matches Maradona tally
| publisher = Inter.it
| date = ]
| accessdate=2007-07-03
}}</ref> He finished with a total of three goals.

==Career statistics==
{{Football player statistics 1|NY}}
{{Football player statistics 2|ARG|NY}}
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|]||rowspan="3"|]||rowspan="3"|]||25||13||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||25||13
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|]||18||5||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||18||5
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|]||19||6||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||19||6
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|]||rowspan="4"|]||rowspan="4"|]||27||12||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||27||12
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|]||25||12||1||0||8||2||34||14
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|]||30||16||colspan="2"|-||8||6||38||22
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|]||34||21||4||3||4||0||42||24
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|]||rowspan="2"|]||rowspan="2"|]||32||26||7||6||6||2||45||34
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|]||22||13||5||2||7||3||25||18
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|]||]||]||18||7||colspan="2"|-||12||9||30||16
{{Football player statistics 2|ENG|NY}}
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|]||]||]||19||10||colspan="2"|-||10||2||29||12
{{Football player statistics 2|ITA|NY}}
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|]||]||]||28||10||colspan="2"|-||10||6||38||16
{{Football player statistics 2|ENG|NY}}
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|]||]||]||30||10||colspan="2"|-||5||2||35||12
{{Football player statistics 2|ITA|NY}}
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|]||rowspan="2"|]||rowspan="2"|]||29||14||colspan="2"|-||6||1||35||15
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|]||17||4||colspan="2"|-||5||1||22||5
{{Football player statistics 3|3|ARG}}62||24||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||62||24
{{Football player statistics 4|ITA}}262||135||17||11||45||22||324||168
{{Football player statistics 4|ENG}}49||20||colspan="2"|-||15||4||64||24
{{Football player statistics 5}}373||179||17||11||60||26||450||216
|}

== Honours ==
====Club====
*]: 1993A, 1994A, 1996A
*]: 1996
*]: 1999
*]: 1999
*]: 1999, 2000, 2004, 2006
*]: 2005
*]: 2006
*]: 2007, 2008

====Country====
*]: Gold Medalist
*]: Silver Medalist
:Runner-up: ], 1995

====Individual====
*]: Top Scorer
*] Capocannoniere: 1999 and 2007 with 4 goals in 4 matches
*]
*] ] ]
*]: 2006
*]: 1994 (with River Plate)

==References==
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==External links==
* at National Football Teams
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