Rolando Hernán Cristante Mandarino (born 16 September 1969 in La Plata

La Plata

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, Argentina

Argentina

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) is a retired Argentine goalkeeper

Goalkeeper (football)

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 from Mexico's top league, who currently plays for Club Universidad de Guadalajara

Club Universidad de Guadalajara

Club Deportivo Universidad de Guadalajara is a football club that currently plays in the Liga de Ascenso.- History :The Universidad de Guadalajara football club, nicknamed "Leones" was founded the 19th of August, 1970 and started in the tercera división in the Mexican professional league, where...

, a team from the second classification.. He had a serious knee injury and was released from Club Toluca in June 2010. 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

Club Toluca

Deportivo Toluca Fútbol Club is a Mexican professional football club. Toluca's stadium Nemesio Diez Riega is located in Toluca, State of Mexico in Mexico. Toluca plays in the Primera División de México and has been champion ten times...

, Mexico and in 1994, he returned to the Argentine team, Club Atlético Platense

Club Atlético Platense

Club Atlético Platense is an Argentine sports club based in Vicente López, in the north side of Greater Buenos Aires. The club nickname is Calamar after the journalist Palacio Zino said that the team moved "like a squid in its ink"....

. In 1995 he returned to Toluca for one year, then in 1996, he joined another Argentine team Newell's Old Boys

Newell's Old Boys

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 of Rosario

Rosario

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. The following year he played for Club Atlético Huracán

Club Atlético Huracán

Club Atlético Huracán is a sports club from the Parque Patricios neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional, the second level of the Argentine football league system. Huracán home stadium is the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó.Huracán was...

 of Argentina. In 1998, he left for Toluca, and has been playing there since.

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

Santos Laguna

Club Santos Laguna is a Mexican football club. They represent the urban area of Comarca Lagunera, which is made up of Torreón, Gomez Palacio, and Lerdo. Santos Laguna currently plays in the Primera División. The club was founded in 1982, and reached Mexico's top division after buying the franchise...

 of not conceding a goal in 772' minutes when the competitive match ended in a tied score of 0-0.

Titles

Team	Title	Season
Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata	Copa Centenario	1993
Club Toluca	League Champion	Invierno 1999
Club Toluca	League Champion	Verano 2000
Club Toluca	League Champion	Apertura 2002
Club Toluca	League Champion	Apertura 2005
Club Toluca	League Champion	Apertura 2008
Club Toluca	Champion of Champions	2003
Club Toluca	Champion of Champions	2006

External links

• Career statistics at National Football Teams
• Argentine Primera statistics
• Hernan Cristante Official Site