In England, West Ham Wins Playoff and Promotion to Premier League West Ham striker Ricardo Vaz Te scored with three minutes remaining to send his team to England's Premier League with a 2-1 win over Blackpool in the promotion playoff final Saturday at London's Wembley Stadium. Vaz Te, a Portuguese wing, lifted the ball into the roof of the net from close range after a goalmouth scramble to end the Hammers" yearlong absence from the Premier League. The victory guarantees West Ham about $150 million in broadcast and other revenue, and should help it keep hold of its best players, including the England international goalkeeper Rob Green and Vaz Te, who scored 24 goals this season. "It is another step, a big challenge," Vaz Te said. We must get there with the mentality that we're a Premier League side and not there to fight relegation. West Ham was relegated from the Premier League at the end of last season and hired the former Bolton, Newcastle and Blackburn manager Sam Allardyce to get it back to the top flight. "It's everything to me," Allardyce said. It was difficult at the start to turn the club around with the relegation problem we've had, but we turned it round and came good at the end. I'll look forward to the celebrations first before I start worrying about the Premier League.  Vaz Te hit the side-netting and Jack Collison put a shot high before Carlton Cole put West Ham ahead in the 35th minute, collecting a cross from Matt Taylor and sweeping the ball past goalkeeper Matt Gilks. Blackpool tied the score two minutes after halftime after Cole gave way the ball near midfield. Matt Phillips carried the ball forward and crossed to the feet of Tom Ince, the son of former West Ham midfielder Paul Ince, for him to score with a shot across Green to the far post. SOLSKJAER STAYS PUT Molde Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's visit to Aston Villa for an "informal first chat" caused a storm among sponsors and supporters in his native Norway, and on Saturday, Solskjaer said he had ended talks with the English Premier League club. Solskjaer, a former Manchester United striker, said at a news conference in Oslo that he was still under contract to Molde, the club he led to a league title last season, for another two years and was not "on the lookout for a new job." Solskjaer, 39, had been expected to be named to replace Alex McLeish at Villa. Solskjaer scored 128 goals in 367 matches for United, including one against Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League final, won by United. He retired in 2007 after failing to recover from a knee injury. He coached United's reserve team before taking over Molde in 2010. The sponsor Aker ASA, which been involved with Molde for more than 20 years, told Reuters on Friday that it would be withdrawing its support for the club over Solskjaer's visit to Birmingham, in England's Midlands. ARGENTINA DROPS TéVEZ Universidad de Chile wing Matias Rodríguez has earned his first Argentina call-up for a World Cup qualifier against Ecuador next month. There was no place, however, for Carlos Tévez among the forwards, which include his Manchester City teammate Sergio Agüero, Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuaín and Napoli's Ezequiel Lavezzi. Coach Alejandro Sabella named 18 foreign-based players Friday night and is expected to boost the numbers with some from the domestic league. Argentina is tied in the South American group with Uruguay and Venezuela, each with 7 points. It has a bye in the qualifying on June 9, when it will meet Brazil, the host of the 2014 World Cup, in a friendly in New Jersey. SUNDERLAND RELEASES NINE Sunderland has released nine players, including the injury-prone Scotland international goalkeeper Craig Gordon, after their deals expired at the end of the season, the Premier League club said. Sunderland added that the loan signings Nicklas Bendtner, Wayne Bridge and Sotiros Kyrgiakos had all returned to their clubs, Arsenal, Manchester City and Wolfsburg.