Chicharito announces it: this is his new team

The front Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez announced this Wednesday on social networks his return to Chivas from Guadalajara to lead the Spanish project from this Clausura 2024 tournament Fernando Hierrocurrently sports director of one of the two clubs with the most fans in Mexican soccer.

“My house, my family, my team, everything. See you again! @Chivas”, he wrote Hernandez on their X account in a publication accompanied by a video copied by Guadalajara, the second club with the most league titles in Mexico with 12.

Since the first days of January, the Mexican press has reported that the 35-year-old attacker will return to Chivasa club where he trained and made his professional debut in 2006, after leaving Los Angeles area last November.

Chicharitonative of Guadalajara, capital of the western Mexican state of Jalisco, spent the final months of 2023 recovering from a cruciate ligament injury suffered in June.

Although he has not yet recovered, sports management is leading iron decided to sign the leading scorer of the Mexican team to meet a long-standing request from the red and white fans and add experience to the locker room.

Hernandez He admitted in recent days that he had received offers from other clubs in the world, but was attracted to return to the club he left in 2010 to start a career in European football by signing for Manchester United.

In the ‘red devils’, the forward is a figure in winning two titles of Premier League and three of Community Shieldand was a finalist in the Champions League, in addition to scoring 59 goals and distributing 20 assists in 157 games.

After passing Unitedhe real Madrid He signed him in 2014 to be a luxury substitute and help the Merengue team win the Club World Cup that year and left a quota of nine goals and nine assists in 33 duels.

Chicharito He was the only Mexican to play at Manchester United and Real Madridwhich places his career on the Old Continent among the best of his countrymen. Chicharito He also served in Europe in Bayer Leverkusen, West Ham and Sevilla.

To his guardian, Hernandez He played 617 games and scored 258 goals, 52 of them with the Mexican team, which he represented at the 2010 South Africa, Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018 World Cups, and where he won the 2011 Gold Cup.

In the following days, Chicharito He will travel to Mexico to perform as a reinforcement of Guadalajara, complete his recovery and debut with his team, which after two days in the Clausura 2024 occupies the tenth position among 18 clubs.