{"id":389175,"date":"2026-07-28T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389175\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:57:08","slug":"atletico-dallas-announces-javier-chicharito-hernandez-as-clubs-first-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389175\/","title":{"rendered":"Atl\u00e9tico Dallas Announces Javier &#8220;Chicharito&#8221; Hern\u00e1ndez as Club&#8217;s First Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atl\u00e9tico Dallas announced on Monday their first player signing in a big way as they have signed avier &#8220;Chicharito&#8221; Hern\u00e1ndez. <\/p>\n<p>The veteran forward has signed a two-year contract with a club option for a third season, pending league and federation approval. <\/p>\n<p>Known around the world by his nickname &#8220;Chicharito,&#8221;\u00a0Hern\u00e1ndez is Mexico&#8217;s all-time leading goal scorer and one of the country&#8217;s most celebrated players, representing El Tri in multiple FIFA World Cups, Concacaf Gold Cups, FIFA Confederations Cups, and international\u00a0competitions. Across nearly two decades, he has competed at the highest levels of world football, representing clubs that include Chivas Guadalajara, Manchester United, Real Madrid,\u00a0Bayer Leverkusen, West Ham United, Sevilla FC, and LA Galaxy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the very beginning, our dream wasn&#8217;t simply to launch another professional soccer club,&#8221;\u00a0said Matt Valentine, Founder and Chairman of Atl\u00e9tico Dallas. &#8220;Our dream was to build a club that truly belongs to Dallas. Javier believed in that vision\u2026 His career speaks for itself, but it&#8217;s\u00a0his leadership, humility, competitive spirit, and genuine love for the game that make him the\u00a0perfect person to help write the first chapter in Atl\u00e9tico Dallas history.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The signing includes plans for Hern\u00e1ndez to eventually move into the club\u2019s sporting department, with ambitions of growing the sport in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"#\/portal\/signup\/free\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/9b\/a4\/9ba413bd-9ade-4977-b9cf-1a1e2ef6de5c\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/Big_D_Soccer_minimal.svg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"687x687\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay on top of every Atl\u00e9tico Dallas news. Free subscribers get breaking news straight to their inbox \u2014 no algorithm, no noise.<\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"#\/portal\/signup\/free\" class=\"kg-cta-button \" style=\"background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff;\"><br \/>\n                            Subscribe today -&gt;<br \/>\n                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quick BDS Take<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long wondered what a new professional team in Dallas would do from scratch and Atl\u00e9tico gives us a taste of that. Between playing in the Cotton Bowl downtown and now this signing, it shows they&#8217;re going to be an intriguing watch next year. <\/p>\n<p>This kind of move feel ambitious for the new club, as they look to market the team around both him and playing in the downtown area. <\/p>\n<p>But this kind of move doesn&#8217;t come free of questions. Hernandez hasn&#8217;t played professionally since the end of 2025 when Chivas opted not to resign him. With Atl\u00e9tico not slated to begin play until next year, you have to wonder if this is more of a &#8216;bring in a veteran guy for the locker room and fill seats in the stands&#8217; kind of move rather than actually make the team better for the long run. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atl\u00e9tico Dallas announced on Monday their first player signing in a big way as they have signed avier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-389175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}