Javier Mascherano is arguably one of the best footballers Argentina has ever produced. He is recognized for his incredible skills in defense, leadership, passing accuracy, to name a few. Mascherano, like most Argentine footballers, started his career in the Primera División Argentina.
Javier is the second most capped player in the history of the Argentine national team beaten only by Javier Zanetti. He’s made 140,000 appearances and counting. He has appeared in four FIFA World Cups including Russia 2018. His other appearances for his national team include; five Copa América tournaments and two Olympic tournaments. He is the first footballer in history to win two Olympic gold medals since 1968.
Javier has played for clubs like West Ham, Liverpool and Barcelona. However, he will probably be remembered for his career at Barcelona, which spanned almost a decade. With Barca, he won 5 La Liga trophies, 2 UEFA Champions League titles and 5 Copa del Rey trophies.
Javier Mascherano’s family – Wife (Fernanda) and children
There are plenty of footballers there who are known for their frequent escapades with models and actresses, but Mascherano, a family man at the center of society, asks to be relieved of that obligation. For a long time Javier had a relationship with a certain Fernanda Moreno, whom he met when he was a teenager.
They got married in 2008 and have remained in marital bliss since then, without any rumors of infidelity. It seems his leadership skills extend way beyond the pitch. A number of footballers can learn a lot about the Argentine star’s loyalty.
Fernanda Moreno isn’t one to feed the tabloids either. She maintained a very low profile with little information about her life available for media consumption. According to our information, Mrs. Mascherano was born on June 18, 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, under the name of Maria Fernanda Moreno. She is therefore the same age as her husband, also born in 1984. In fact, they share the same month of birth, Javier is June 8th.
From the many snaps of her that her husband has online and from those taken by paparazzi cameras, Fernanda is a very beautiful lady, coupled with her calm demeanor, it is quite evident that Javier made her his wife.
2008, the year of their marriage was Javier’s second year at Liverpool in which he joined West Ham United. Two years later, in 2010, Javier’s wife broke the news after rumors surfaced that she was the main reason Javier had started looking to leave Liverpool.
As the story goes, Fernanda was very unhappy living in Liverpool because she didn’t speak English and had no friends. To make matters worse, she was also pregnant. After a stressful period in the UK, Fernanda left her husband in the UK and returned to her home country of Argentina, further pushing Mascherano to think of a favorable new location for her Shortly before that the father of the family does it. In August 2010, he signed a four-year contract worth €24 million with La Liga side Barcelona.
This decision broke the hearts of many Liverpool fans who had held him in very high regard. They even made him his own song which was sung to the tune of the White Stripes song “Seven Nation Army”.
Some of his compatriots, including Lionel Messi, have shown their support for his decision to leave for family reasons.
Making the move more painful was the fact that Liverpool had somehow saved Mascherano from the contract he was entangled with at West Ham. In his Independent article, Neil Warnock referenced Javier’s time at West Ham and Fernanda’s supposed unhappiness following her time in the UK. “I bet his wife was happy then.”
Looking back, Mascherano probably has more blessings than setbacks to count in joining Barca.
The couple share three children including daughters; Lola (born in 2006), Alma (born in 2009) and a son, Bruno, born April 12, 2017.
Net Worth
Height: 5 feet 8.5 inches – 1.74m
Weight: 73kg