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Hernandez dreams of United treble

SoccerNews in General Soccer News 23 Aug 2012

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Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez says he dreams of emulating the club’s famous 1999 treble-winning team.

Alex Ferguson earned a knighthood after his team won the English Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in the 1998/99 season and Mexico international Hernandez has set his sights on repeating that historic accomplishment.

The 24-year-old insisted it is winning trophies, not scoring goals, that drive him on as a footballer and said he would be the ‘happiest man in the world’ to secure the treble, even if he did not score once.

“My real dream – and I swear it is not about scoring the biggest goal – is to win the treble,” he told United’s website.

“One year at least, I want to win the league, I want to win the Champions League – we were so close in my first year – and I want to win the FA Cup.

“I think the treble is the most complicated thing in the world for any club to win. So that is my dream, to lift all those trophies in one season.

“If I have a season where I play a lot but didn’t score one goal, but I can lift those trophies, I will be the happiest man in the world.”

Hernandez said the team hoped to draw inspiration from the disappointment of losing the Premier League title to cross-city rivals Manchester City on the last day of the season.

“We need to learn from that disappointment,” he said.

“It was a very strange season because we know that United have always won trophies in their history, and last season we only won the Community Shield at the start of the season and then we didn’t win anything.

“So we need to come back to our best as a team, as a club and try to win every competition that we play. It was very disappointing, but we need to look forward.

“The philosophy of Manchester United is to keep playing, to keep enjoying, to keep working and to keep fighting.

“I think that’s going to help us as a team because all the experienced players and all the young ones want to learn and to keep fighting because we don’t want a repeat of last season.”

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