Hernán Cristante

Hernán Cristante

Personal information
Full name	Rolando Hernán Cristante Mandarino
Date of birth	(1969-09-16) September 16, 1969
Place of birth	La Plata, Argentina
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Toluca (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1989–1993	Gimnasia de La Plata	58	(0)
1993–2010	Toluca	419	(0)
1994–1995	→ Platense (loan)	30	(0)
1996–1997	→ Newell's Old Boys (loan)	17	(0)
1997–1998	→ Huracán (loan)	32	(0)
2011–2012	U. de G.	27	(0)
Total		583	(0)
International career
1989–1995	Argentina	6	(0)
Managerial career
2016	Tepic
2016–	Toluca
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rolando Hernán Cristante Mandarino (born 16 September 1969), known as Hernán Cristante is an Argentine professional football manager and former football player. He is the manager of Liga MX club Deportivo Toluca.

Hernán Cristante was part of Argentina's Seleccion Nacional three times, in 1989, 1992, and again in 1995. He began to play professionally in Argentina in 1990 with Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata. In August 1993 he was transferred to Club Toluca, Mexico and in 1994, he returned to the Argentine team, Club Atlético Platense. In 1995 he returned to Toluca for one year, then in 1996, he joined another Argentine team Newell's Old Boys of Rosario. The following year he played for Club Atlético Huracán of Argentina. In 1998, he left for Toluca, and has been playing there since. He had a serious knee injury and was released from Club Toluca in June 2010.

In 2002, he completed his training to become a professional coach, and in 2004 he opened the Centro de Formación Deportivo Hernán Cristante (Sports Training Center) with the goal of developing young soccer talent. In 2007, he played his 500th professional game, and is currently the number one foreign player in Mexico for total number of games played in the Primera División.

He has been nominated four times since 1999 as the best goalkeeper in Mexico.

New Record: Cristante broke a record on December 4, 2008 during the match against Santos Laguna of not conceding a goal in 772' minutes when the competitive match ended in a tied score of 0-0.

Managerial

As of 23 July 2016

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	Win %	Ref.
Tepic	12 February 2016	30 May 2016	12	7	1	4	058.33
Toluca	31 May 2016	Present	3	0	1	2	000.00
Total			15	7	2	6	046.67

Honours

Player

Gimnasia y Esgrima

• Copa Centenario de la AFA: 1993

Toluca

• Primera División de México: Verano 1999, Verano 2000, Apertura 2002, Apertura 2005, Apertura 2008
• Campeón de Campeones: 2003, 2006

External links

• Hernán Cristante at National-Football-Teams.com
• Argentine Primera statistics
• Hernan Cristante Official Site