Hirving Lozano is a Mexican professional footballer who is a winger for the Dutch club PSV Eindhoven and the Mexican national team. Prior to joining the senior squad, he spent five years with the Mexican professional football club C.F. Pachuca’s youth team. He has made 149 appearances for Pachuca’s senior team, scoring 43 goals, and has tallied 15 goals in 27 appearances for PSV Eindhoven in less than a year since signing with the club. In 24 appearances, he has scored seven international goals for the senior Mexican team. Right-footed, he is known for playing on the left side of the field the majority of the time. After cutting in from the left flank, he has frequently proven to be a threat to the opponent’s defense as a gifted, conventional inverted winger with a powerful right foot. Recent reports indicate that Premier League club Arsenal is contemplating a £30 million deal to sign him to replace Alexis Sanchez, who left for Manchester United. He has been included as a player in the Career Mode of the FIFA 18 video game.
Childhood and Early Life
Influencing 30 July 1995, in Mexico City, Mexico, Rodrigo Lozano Bahena was born to Jess Lozano and Ana Mara Bahena. Bryan Mauricio Lozano Bahena, his younger sibling, is also a footballer and plays as a midfielder for Club Universidad Nacional.
Hirving’s Club Position
In 2009, Hirving Lozano joined the Mexican professional football club C.F. Pachuca’s youth team. He spent five seasons in the club’s junior levels before making his senior team debut. On his Liga MX debut against Club América on February 8, 2014, he scored within five minutes of entering the game as a substitute to secure a 1-0 victory. In his inaugural tournament, the 2014 Clausura, with Pachuca’s first team, he scored the game-winning goal despite conceding two goals earlier to secure a 3-2 victory over León on their home turf.
They finished as runners-up in the tournament after suffering a 2-0 loss to León in the tournament’s return final. Nonetheless, the club once again reached the Clausura 2016 final, where they defeated Monterrey 2–1 on aggregate to win the league.
In April 2017, they defeated neighboring Mexican club Tigres UANL in the finals of the 2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League, which they also won. Lozano scored eight goals in eight matches and was awarded the Golden Boot and the ‘Best Young Player Award’ as the highest scorer.
The Dutch club PSV Eindhoven announced on June 19, 2017, that he had inked a six-year contract through 2023. After six months OF arduous negotiations, PSV Football Director Marcel Brands confirmed that the club is pleased to have the youth join their ranks.
His competitive début for PSV came against Croatian side Osijek in the Europa League qualifiers, which resulted in a 2–0 aggregate score that prevented the team from advancing to the group stage. On August 12, 2017, he made his Eredivisie début for PSV against AZ Alkmaar, scoring a goal in the team’s 3-2 victory and receiving a standing ovation upon his 84th-minute substitution.
The following week, he scored his second goal and assisted on another in PSV’s 4-0 victory over NAC Breda. The following week, he scored again to help PSV defeat Roda JC 2-0, becoming the first player in team history to score three goals in his first three matches. He was dubbed “Eredivisie Player of the Month” for August based on his consistent play. However, he received his first red card the following month during a 2-0 loss against SC Heerenveen.
Hirving’s International Profession
Hirving Lozano participated in the 2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship for the Mexican U-20 national team, scoring a brace and assisting on four more goals in the team’s opening match against Cuba. Mexico won the tournament for the thirteenth time and qualified for the under-20 World Cup in New Zealand, while he scored five goals and was awarded the Golden Boot.
On September 18, 2015, Mexican U-23 head coach Ral Gutierrez selected him to participate in the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship, which the team won by defeating Honduras 2-0. The following year, during the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he was sent off in stoppage time for pushing a Korean player in their third group match, which they lost and were eliminated from.
On February 10, 2016, he made his senior team debut in a friendly against Senegal as a starter under head coach Juan Carlos Osorio, assisting on the second goal in a 2-0 victory. In the third round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying against Canada, he scored his first goal for Mexico and assisted the team to a 3-0 victory.
During the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, he scored the game-winning goal in Mexico’s 2-1 victory over hosts Russia in the final group stage match. He tracked down a long clearance from Héctor Herrera and beat goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev to the ball at the perimeter of the penalty area to score into an open net.
Awards & Achievements
During the 2016–17 season, Hirving Lozano assisted his club C.F. Pachuca to win the Liga MX: Clausura 2016 and the CONCACAF Champions League. In 2015, he led the Mexican national team to the CONCACAF U-20 Championship and the CONCACAF Men’s Olympic Qualifying Championship on the international stage.
He shared the Golden Boot with United States midfielder Romain Gall at the 2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship and was named to the tournament’s Best XI. During the same year, he won the Golden Ball at the CONCACAF Men’s Olympic Qualifying Championship and was also named to the tournament’s Best XI.
In 2015, Don Balón, a Spanish football-focused weekly sports magazine, named Hirving Lozano one of the greatest players born after 1994. Soon after his arrival at PSV Eindhoven, FIFA included him on their list of 2017’s rising stars and he was named one of the top Eredivisie young players to monitor for the 2017–18 season.
El Chucky is Hirving Lozano’s moniker, a reference to the eerie doll from the ‘Child’s Play film series. During his youth career, he allegedly earned the nickname by hiding under the bed on road trips and scaring his comrades by randomly jumping on them.
Estimated Net Worth
Hirving Lozano is one of the wealthiest and most renowned soccer players in the world. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes, and Business Insider, Hirving Lozano has a $5 million net worth.