Soccer

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Javier Hernández returned to his former Mexican club after 14 years playing in Europe and the United States, agreeing Wednesday to a contract with Chivas of Guadalajara.

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Sounders signed young Argentinian winger Pedro de la Vega on Wednesday, adding another highly paid attacker to their lineup.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus Cup game between perennial Limassol rivals Apollon and AEL was called off Wednesday after some fans ran onto the field and hurled flares at each other before kickoff.

MILAN (AP) — Amid outrage at the latest incident of racism to blight Italian soccer, former AC Milan player Kevin-Prince Boateng says nothing has changed in the years since he also walked off the pitch in protest.

PARIS (AP) — France will play a friendly match against Chile in March as part of its preparations for the European Championship .

PRAGUE (AP) — Slavia Prague has canceled a warm-up game against Slovan Bratislava because the Slovak champion played a friendly match against Russia’s Dynamo Moscow.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Algeria coach Djamel Belmadi has resigned after his team’s second straight group-stage exit from the Africa Cup of Nations.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — American forward Nicholas Gioacchini transferred Wednesday to second-tier Como in Italy after one season with St. Louis in Major League Soccer. The 23-year-old scored 10 goals in 32 regular-season league matches.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Japan got its Asian Cup campaign back on track by advancing to the knockout stage after a 3-1 win against Indonesia on Wednesday.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A stadium in Somalia's violence-prone capital is hosting its first soccer tournament in three decades, drawing thousands of people to a facility that had been abandoned for years and later became a base for military — and ev