Crowned world champion in 2018 with the French team, Lucas Hernandez is missing out on another major competition.
When bad luck chases you. Seriously injured in the first match of the competition in 2022 against Australia, Lucas Hernandez is once again out of a major international competition. The PSG player seriously injured his knee during the Champions League semi-final first leg against Dortmund. Successfully operated on in March in Austria, Theo Hernandez’s brother is now recovering and hopes to return to the field in a few months for the start of the new season.
Lucas Hernandez was born in Marseille on February 14, 1996 from the union of Laurence Py and the French footballer of Spanish origin Jean-François Hernandez, playing at this period at Olympique de Marseille before being transferred to Spain. The family then moved to Spain when Lucas was 6 years old. He and his younger brother, Theo Hernandez, embrace the same passion for football and trained at Atlético de Madrid.
After his junior career, he joined the Colchoneros B team for a few weeks before joining the first team in the 2014-2015 season where he also played 13 matches with the national under-19 team. Able to play as a left-back or central defender, his versatile profile is highly appreciated. The following season, however, he did not yet find a starting place and considered leaving the club, but it retained him.
Thanks to several defender injuries, coach Diego Simeone offered him playing time both in the championship and in the Champions League. In 2016, he was extended and in 2017 gained a starting place within the Madrid squad. At the end of the 2017-2018 season during which he was an integral part of the European campaign, he won the Europa League by beating Olympique de Marseille in the final. A rich year for Lucas Hernandez who is called up to the team of France premiered in March 2018.
The 2018-2019 season, in the wake of the World Cup coronation with the Blues, is more difficult for Lucas Hernandez who has a string of injuries. However, he was recruited by Bayern Munich for an amount of 80 million euros, an exceptional sum for the transfer of a defender. His first season in the Bundesliga was tarnished by new injuries, but he still managed to play 25 matches, including three in the Champions League which he won, again against a French club, Paris Saint-Germain. He won in 2020-2021 in the most successful club in Germany. Bayern Munich is eliminated from the Champions League by PSG, but wins the championship. At the same time, he participated in seven matches to qualify France for Euro 2021. Unfortunately, the competition was painful for him. Starting in the first match against Germany, he did not play the following match against Hungary and left at half-time of the third group match against Portugal. He will not play a minute during the French elimination in the 1/8th final by Switzerland. After a tricky Euro, Lucas Hernandez won the Nations League with the Blues in October 2021, a tournament that he won with his brother Theo, also summoned by Didier Deschamps. With Bayern, he won a new German championship title in 2022.
Selected in 2012 as a Blue within the French U16 team, Lucas Hernandez joined the France A team for the first time in March 2018, a few months before the 2018 World Cup where he was immediately promoted to the starting position. of Benjamin Mendy’s injury. Brilliant in Russia, decisive passer for Benjamin Pavard on the right side’s famous goal against Argentina, Lucas Hernandez has become an executive for the Blues. Didier Deschamps prefers him in a left-back role even though he is regularly aligned as a central defender at Bayern Munich. Winner of the 2021 Nations League with the Blues, Lucas Hernandez is called up to the Blues list to play his 2nd World Cup in Qatar in 2022. Starting in the first group match against Australia, he seriously injured his knee in the 9th minute and had to forfeit the rest of the tournament. Unfortunately, bad luck is piling up for Lucas Hernandez who seriously injured his knee just before the start of Euro 2024.
Lucas Hernandez lives a passionate love story with Amelia Ossa Llorente. But, in 2017, the couple, drunk, exchanged blows. Each receives one month of community service and the Spanish court also sentences them to six months of detachment. However, Lucas Hernandez and his partner reconcile and are arrested together. A one-year suspended prison sentence is then handed down to the player for non-compliance with the removal order. Sentence which will be reduced to six months in December 2019. A few months later, on August 1, 2018, less than a month after the World Cup coronation, Amelia Ossa Llorente gave birth to their first child, a boy named Martin .