like at Veracruz, América failed to get past the first round of the playoffs, being defeated by Tigres UANL. Prior to the start of the Apertura 2006 season, Giménez was transferred to Pachuca, who days before had won the Clausura 2006 tournament, defeating Club San Luis – a sister club of Christian's last employer, Club América. 2007 started promisingly to Giménez, scoring 8 goals in three matches. Giménez is a member of the "Blanco Four", a group of players who once played at Veracruz with Blanco and were signed by América after being recommended by the striker. The other members are Kléber Boas, Carlos Infante and Armando Navarrete. He left Pachuca on December 17, 2009 and signed for Cruz Azul. In the tornement Bicentario 2010 Gimenez was a quik starter for the team Cruz Azul, because of the coach Enrique Meza already knowing the great skills that Gimenez had from the years that Meza coached with Pachuca. Although Gimenez was one of the most important transfers of the season, he was not able to lead Cruz Azul to qualify for the quarter finals, and was only able to score two goals in 16 appearances. In the Apertura 2010 season, Giménez was criticized by the media because of his bad performance in the first season, and was wanted to be kicked out of Cruz Azul. But on the fifth matchday of the season Giménez scored his first hat-trick with Cruz Azul in a 3–2 win over Chiapas. In 2018, Giménez returned to Pachuca on loan from Cruz Azul. International career Argentina Giménez represented Argentina at the 2001 South American Youth Championship. Argentina finished the competition in second place but he was able to score two goals. In 2009 Diego Maradona called up Giménez for Argentina's World Cup qualifiers in June against Colombia and Ecuador, but he did not play in any of the two matches. Mexico In July 2013, Giménez became a naturalized Mexican citizen. On August 14, 2013, coach Jose Manuel de la Torre called up Giménez for the Mexico national football team for a friendly against Ivory Coast, which Mexico won 4–1. Giménez played in four games for Mexico as part of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, three games, those against Costa Rica, Honduras and U.S.A. resulted in losses. The other was a 2–1 victory over Panama on October 11, 2013. On October 30, the national football