New number 11 Carlos Vela has shown in Arsenal’s last pre season meeting a very fine performance as the Gunners travelled to Warsaw for Legia’s celebration of their “New Legion Stadium”.

The match finished in a very crazy 11 goal contest, where the Polish outfit had a dominating 3:0 lead, but the Gunners were able to fight back with a fantastic comeback, thanks to a very well second half by Arsenal winger Carlos Vela.

The Mexican showed a fantastic display with great movements as well as his pace and his newly acquired strength and power forced several problems for Legia’s back-line.

As we said before, Carlitos had a really special tough body workout in the training camp in Austria and finally it should give him now maybe the opportunity to settle into this strong Arsenal front row. Actually he looks very lively on the left-wing, which is probably the position where Arsene Wenger wants to play “El Bombardero”.

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Arsenal striker Carlos Vela got called up by Mexico’s interim coach Enrique Meza for the upcoming friendly with World Champions Spain at the Azteca Stadium next Wednesday.

Vela received the call alongwith 12 other players who made the squad for the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa, where the El-Tri were eliminated by Lionel Messi’s Albiceleste.

The interim coach has also included Manchester United forward Javier Hernandez, Tottenham’s Giovani Dos Santos as well as new Hammer Pablo Barrera.

Many Gunners supporters will dislike this call up, because it is once again in a period where Carlos needs to prepare himself for the Premier League. The Mexican was really impressive in the pre season so far and now he got again a silly call up for an unimportant friendly with the risk to get injured.

We are all not pleased with this decision by the Mexican FA, but Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger can’t do anything against it and Carlos himself as well.

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First of all we want to say that Carlos Vela News in now back after a refreshing summer break!

21 years old Mexican striker Carlos Vela has shown a decent display in this years Emirates Cup for Arsene Wenger’s Gunners side at Emirates Stadium on last weekend. The El-Tri hitman was a late substitute in the Milan clash on Saturday afternoon, but Arsene Wenger has decided to give Carlitos a start against Neil Lennon’s Celtic on Sunday.

Vela weared his new number 11 which he picked up from Dutch striker Robin van Persie who changed to Dennis Bergkamp’s former number 10.

It needed Vela just 3 minutes into the first half to struck home for the Gunners after English midfield prospect Jack Wilshere picked up winger Theo Walcott on the right hand side and the English international slotted in a deadly cross, so that Vela just needed to slide in and tap the ball with his left foot over the line.

Overall the Mexican showed his tremendous potential, but we should stay calm because that is just the pre season and doesn’t matter really. It was nice to see that Carlos is now more focused to work hard in training as he looks much fitter than in the last season, his movement and technique is better and he looks really stronger prior to a hard body workout in Austria.

A good thing for Carlos is that this pre season preparation can help him to get back his knocked out confidence after a shocking display in the last campaign flooded with difficult injuries.

“El Bombardero” was a transfer target of several clubs including La Liga outfits CD Espanyol, Deportivo la Coruna, Sevilla FC as well as German Bundesliga teams Borussia M’Gladbach, Cologne FC and Italian SerieA sides Genua FC and AS Roma.

They probably tried all to lure the young striker away from Ashburton Grove but his employer Arsenal Football Club refused all potential transfer talks about him with Gunners Manager Arsene Wenger having high plans in the future with the Mexican International.

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La Liga outfit Espanyol Barcelona will make a last attempt to lure young Mexican Carlos Vela away from the Gunners to bolster their strike force.

According to reliable sources in Spain is Espanyol’s Director Deportiva Ramn Planes a long time admirer of the 21 years old and hopes to agree terms withthe Arsenal management in the next week. Planes wants to fly out to London to discuss terms about a possible transfer of Carlitos, but there are doubts that the Gunners give the Mexican free for a transfer.

The Arsenal management have already rejected approaches by Deportivo La Coruna and Sevilla Football Club for Vela in front of the FIFA World Cup, but Ramn Planes remains hopeful that he can seal a deal with Gunners chairman Peter-Hill-Wood for a season long loan with possible buy-option in the next week.

The Catalonia side is for the second time interested in the services of the Cancun native after failing last summer to bring the talented striker to Estadio Olympico de Montjuic.

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Arsenal striker Carlos Vela is on his way back to Mexico with his national colleagues after being eliminated by Diego Maradona’s strong Argentine side at Soccer City last evening.

Vela was not able to feature in the match due to a hamstring injury which he suffered against France in the early stages.

His best friend Giovani Dos Santos has needed after the match a lot of consolation and Carlitos showed exactly that support to Gio as he had tears in his eyes.

The El-Tri said bye bye to South Africa this morning as they took the plane to Mexico City, where most of the players will go into their well deserved summer break.

Carlos plans to visit his family in Cancun, Quintana Roo to spend some time with them before flying back to London to join his Arsenal team-mates for pre season preparation.

Certainly Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger as well as the Arsenal supporters will be glad that Vela crashed out of the FIFA World cup, so the 21 years old can have for the first time a very fine pre season preparation, which will help him to find his confidence and fitness back.

Wenger always have admitted that the problem was last year that Carlosmissed the full preparation due to an ankle injury which he suffered in the Gold Cup competition last year and finally only the French man knows how vital it is for a player like Vela to have a fine pre season campaign.

Vela will have a two weeks summer vacation in Mexico and will join then the Arsenal Squad for pre season training a few days before the Gunners will head to Underhill Stadium for their traditionally season opener against Barnet Football Club.

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Young Mexican striker Carlos Vela sawfrom the bench that his native Mexico romped out of the FIFA World Cup against Diego Maradona’s Argentina. Vela was an unused substitute after missing out to pass the late fitness test in the morning.

Argentina can say really thank you to referee Roberto Rosetti, who should get all the blame for not dismissing the first goal of the Albiceleste as Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez was miles offside.

We are playing a FIFA World Cup second round encounter and a cheat like that is really unacceptable like the disallowed Lampard goal earlier and this comes from a German (Me). This decisions can damage a whole football match for one of the contenders and it is really embarrassing what the referees whistling so far in this tournament.

For young Vela ends the World Cup really sad with a lot of disappointment, but you cannot do anything if the referee fail to make his job. Overall I think the Mexican people will be proud with this team as they tried all as well as it was an impossible mission.

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Young Mexican Carlos Vela has returned to full training this evening at Waterstone College, the World Cup training ground of the Mexican national side. Vela has participated in light passing drills with fellow striker colleagues Giovani Dos Santos as well as Guillermo Franco, which is really good news for “El Bombardero” as he got back in contact with the ball.

Carlitos training was limited so far on jogging and sprints but in the late afternoon session the 21 years old rejoined his team-mates to get hope back to the El-Tri supporters that he can start against Diego Maradona’s Argentine side.

Of course it is still a very short amount of training time for Carlos to get back on fitness, but he has still two days to show Mexican head coach Javier Aguirre, that he is ready to go.

We will provide you tomorrow with the latest news on Vela’s fitness!

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21 years old Carlos Vela has continued his jogging program at Waterstone College today in the afternoon, but still missed out to get back on the ball, which force major doubts that Carlos will recover quickly enough for Sunday evenings battle against the South American giants at Soccer City in Johannesburg.

According to a statement by a member of the Mexican staff few days ago, the news was that Vela has already recovered from his hamstring problem in his right leg, but with still no ball action in training there are major doubts that Carlitos get fit in time.

Mexican head coach Javier Aguirre told the media today that Vela is making good process, but he was unable to join back into full training with his team-mates so far. “El Bombardero” trains separately to the national team with jogging and sprinting tasks and is waiting for the call by Aguirre.

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