21 years old Mexican striker Carlos Vela has followed the Champions League clash on Tuesday night in the stands with fellow teammate Cesc Fabregas.

Vela was not available to help the Gunners to overcome a one nil deficit against Porto Football Club after returning from international duty with a short-term injury.

The Mexican limped off injured in Mexico’s friendly with New Zealand, which was in the end just a very good reaction of Carlos to secure his Gunner chance, so that he told Mexican Coach Javier Aguirre to take him off to avoid a longer term injury.

Vela saw a great performance from his teammates, as the Gunners totally destroyed Porto by 5:0 in the Champions League Last 16 Round 2 leg, thanks to a hat-trick by Danish striker Nicklas Bendtner, as well as an impressive Samir Nasri run trough the defense.

Carlos is looking forward to feature on weekend at Hull, but there are some doubts that he will be fit for the important Premier League encounter.

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Gunners winger Carlos Vela has a really frustrating campaign, as he suffered another injury in Mexico’s friendly encounter against New Zealand at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Wednesday night.

The Mexican was introduced for striker Aldo Di Nigris after halftime to play up front with EL Chicharito Javier Hernandez. The 21 years old Chivas hotshot then find first the net with a very fine header following of a set piece by Carlos Salcido in minute 54.

But then Carlos Vela made it 2:0 as he showed body strength with a dribbling through the whole New Zealand defensive area on his way to the goalkeeper box, where he was able to slot home with his right foot into the far corner.

Later on,  an injury flooded campaign continued for the 21 years old as he limped off the pitch with a worst injury. Vela Fans and Arsenal Supporters as well as Gunner’s Manager Arsene Wenger must be seriously frustrated and it should be hard to explain to them, where the sense is to send Vela to a Mexico friendly instead to gaining full fitness at Arsenal’s training facilities.

It is expected that Vela will be out again for a few weeks, so that he will be not able to feature for the Gunners in the next month. But there is no news really how serious the injury is.

Carlos will arrive on Friday in London, so that Arsenal’s Medical department have a view on it.

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With a very impressive result in favour for Carlos have ended the second Supporters Voting on Carlos Vela News!! The fans show their support as they voted very confident that Carlos will score against New Zealand for his native Mexico tonight at the Rose Bowl.

Will Carlos Vela Score On Wednesday For El Tri?

Yes definitely 81%

Maybe 14%

No chance 5%

Carlos has participated in the last training session yesterday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and it is expected that Vela hands a start up front with shooting star Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez (Chivas Guadalajara) and one of his best friends in the Mexican team Giovani Dos Santos (Galatasaray SK).  Carlos has shown his new designed boots, which are white and black with a pink Nike logo.  The boots are the newest product of the football fashion company Nike.

Vela enjoys his time with the El-Tri, because he recently missed out to have a run at Arsenal with a couple of injuries, even though he is not really in favour of Arsene Wenger at the moment to gun the Gunners to the title.

We will offer you from 3.45am GMT all the latest scores as well as updates of the match on Carlos Vela News Twitter.

Article by – A.Zimmermann

21 years old Mexican Carlos Vela has arrived with his native Mexico in the United States where the Mexican side start preparing for Wednesday’s friendly with New Zealand at the Rose Bowl in California.

The EL-Tri side arrived to their hotel at 9.30pm pacific time yesterday in Pasadena, California. After the players have covered their rooms and had their first sleep, Mexico head coach Javier Aguirre has ordered his team on the training pitch for a first unit on Monday, but Carlos Vela and some of the other fellow teammates who are playing currently in Europe were  not able to take part in it, because they just have landed earlier on the day.

Carlos Vela News will of course will cover you the latest news from Pasadena, as well as a coverage of Mexico’s encounter on Wednesday at the wonderful Rose Bowl!

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Arsenal and Mexico hitman Carlos Vela has turned today 21. The young Mexican was an unused substitute on Saturday as the Gunners romped a late win against Stoke City at Britannia Stadium.

The match was of course overshadowed by the horrific injury of Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey. The Welsh teenager has broken his tibia and fibula in his right leg and is out for the remainder of the season and possible longer.

Gunners Manager Arsene Wenger has not given the Mexican any minutes as he decided to bring on Eduardo Da Silva instead of Carlos in the last minutes. Definitely a disappointing weekend for the Mexican,because he would have deserved a match in front of his 21st birthday.

Even though I would say it would have been not a nice present to play there!!

“FELIZ CUMPLEANOS CARLOS”

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Given that Arsene Wenger revealed that he was the sole reason the Arsenal manager didn’t go out and buy a ready-made replacement for Manchester City bound Emmanuel Adebayor in the summer, that the Arsenal manager sees many similiarities between him and former Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler and that the 20 year old Mexican has been hailed as one of the brightest young footballers in the world for several years now, many Arsenal fans must be wondering when Carlos Vela is going to be given a chance to stake a claim for a regular place in the first team.

However, if you are a fan of football betting, I’d not be making any predictions that this is going to happen any time soon.

Many assumed that the injuries to Van Persie and Bendtner, combined with the less than impressive form of Eduardo, would give Vela his chance. The Mexican made five appearances for Arsenal through December, all as a substitute and indeed all his league appearances this season for the Gunners have come as a substitute. However Wenger seems reluctant to play the 20 year old striker from the start, particularly in league games, and it is therefore confusing to read effusive eulogies from Wenger when he seems unwilling to give Vela a starting place in the team. Speaking recently Wenger stated;

“Vela is a fantastic talent and he is 20 years old. We have invested a lot of time for him because we put him in Spain for two years, got him back and now we work with him every day.

“I believe he is a Robbie Fowler-type. He needs very little time to make a decision in the box. He is relaxed, when he finishes he has very short backline. He is, as well, left footed and he is a similar size.”

I think it is then a fair question to ask, given the Arsenal striking situation and the fact that Andrei Arshavin has been forced to forge a lone striking role for a good portion of the season, why hasn’t Vela been given a chance?

It isn’t like Wenger is afraid to unleash talented youngsters into his first team. Fabregas, Walcott, Ramsey, Gibbs and Mannone are just some of the talented players whom Wenger has given a chance at a young age by giving them considerable playing time. It seems somewhat strange then that given Arsenal’s shortage of strikers in recent months, Wenger has chosen to overlook Vela, despite regarding him so highly.

There are plenty of possible reasons why this is of course. Vela was injured at the start of the season and only really returned to full fitness around November time. However this was when Arsenal’s striking injury jinx began to take hold. He appeared as a substitute several times in December but hasn’t made the first team, Wenger instead preferring to play Arshavin in a lone striking role. Is it that Vela is still learning his trade against the more unsubtle powerhouse defenders of the English Premier League? I’m not too sure, Vela spent two years on loan in Spanish football with Salamanca and Osasuna, playing many games against some of the toughest Spanish defenders at Primera Liga and Segunda Liga level. Spanish defenders know how to put it about with the best of them. Ask Maradona.

Maybe Vela’s adaptation to English football is taking a little longer than planned? Again this is worth considering, but when Vela has played from the start, notably in the Carling Cup, he has looked a class act. Few Arsenal fans will forget his stunning hat trick against Sheffield United in the competition a couple of seasons ago. Surely if he can cope with Sheffield United’s powerful defence, he’d be fine in the Premier League? If he is as good as Wenger says he is, I’d put my money where my mouth is and stick a few of my own quid (well ok, perhaps a couple of free bets!) on him thriving once he is given an extended chance.

It’s something of a mystery why Vela hasn’t been given at least one chance so far, but I’m not going to second guess Arsene Wenger. He’s handed the Mexican a brand new contract in December 2009 and Vela looks set to be an Arsenal player for many years to come.

Let’s just hope that for the majority of time, he is thrilling Gunners fans with his performances on the pitch!

Our best wishes go out to Vela’s Welsh teammate Aaron Ramsey, who is currently in hospital following a malicious challenge by Stoke City defenseman Ryan Shawcross this evening at the Britannia Stadium. The 19 years old Welsh teenager has made an significant impact to broke into the Arsenal line-up recently, but once again after the horrific break from Eduardo da Silva 2 years ago another Arsenal player has suffered a horrific Leg brake.

In the current circumstance it looks as Aaron appears to have broken his leg as well as his ankle,  Sky TV immediately decided to refuse to show any replays, as the teenager was screaming with pain, that was the moment as it was clear that it is a very serious injury which happened.  Ramsey was taken off by the medical staff straight into a stretcher who left the stadium immediately. Ryan Shawcross was of course sent off for his horrible challenge and had tears in his eyes. We believe he never wanted to do that, but now it is time for the FA to do something.

We also distance us on unrespectful interviews of the Sky Sports team, which telling us that Aaron is just unlucky, you can stop tackles like that with banning forever.

In respect on Aaron Ramsey we don’t show a picture or video of his horrific leg break!!

The whole Carlos Vela News Team is wishing Aaron all the best and a quick recovery!!!

The Voting on Carlos Vela News had in the end not the hopeful result for all Vela fans , as most of the supporters have voted to see Carlos starting from the bench against Stoke City tomorrow afternoon. So the voting in the end had no surprise, but we never thought that Arsene Wenger would throw the Mexican in from the start in such an important game for the title race.

Result of the Carlos Vela News vote

Will Carlos Vela Make the Starting Line-up at Stoke?

Yes 41%

No 44%

Maybe 15%

Article by – A.Zimmermann

El-Tri head coach Javier Aguirre has selected Arsenal forward Carlos Vela in his 18-man Mexico Squad for the upcoming friendly against New Zealand on Wednesday evening on the impressive Rose Bowl stadium.

Aguirre makes full use of the FIFA’s lone international fixture before the Mexico team will start preparation for the World Cup with their training camp.