Kammala wannan magana: An san shi da dogon gashi mai launin shuɗi, lambar 15 da sunan lakabi na "El Matador", Hernández ya fara buga wasan kasa da kasa a kan Uruguay a ranar 1 ga Fabrairu, 1995. Hernández ya zira kwallaye na farko a duniya a ranar 16 ga Nuwamba, 1995 a kan Yugoslavia. Hernández ya sami daraja a lokacin
1997 Copa América, inda ya ci kwallaye shida kuma ya zama babban mai zira kwallaye a gasar. A gasar cin kofin duniya ta FIFA ta 1998, ya gama a cikin manyan 'yan wasan gasar tare da kwallaye hudu, kuma ya zama dan wasan Mexico na farko da ya zira kwallaye fiye da biyu a tarihin gasar cin kofin duniya. Kwallaye 35 da ya zura wa Mexico sun hada shi da Carlos Hermosillo don bin Cuauhtémoc Blanco (ƙwallaye 39), Jared Borgetti (ƙwallaye 46) da Javier Hernandez (ƙwallaye 51) a matsayin na huɗu mafi girma a cikin ƙasar.