Welcome back, Alvaro Fernandez.
The Seattle Sounders announced Thursday the club has re-signed Uruguayan midfielder Fernandez, a former player who played with the team from 2010-12 as a Designated Player.
"It's always great to bring back members of the Sounders family, and Alvaro is a player who knows the organization very well and can instantly come in and contribute to this team," Sounders general manager Garth Lagerwey said in a statement. "Paired with yesterday's signing of Nicolas Lodeiro, we think we've added two players who immediately make our team better on the field."
Fernandez joined the club out of the 2010 World Cup after playing with Uruguay to a fourth-place finish. He scored 13 goals and recorded three assists in 55 appearances with the club before being traded to the Chicago Fire in July 2012.
He and Lodeiro played side-by-side with Uruguayan outfit Club Nacional and Lodeiro says he and Fernandez are "good friends," too.
"We played together with Nacional in Uruguay and after then we played in the World Cup together," Lodeiro said. "We had a lot of time with the national team, and that where's the friendship - which is fairly big - came from."
