Carlos Vela: career of the Mexican striker and interesting facts about him

Carlos Vela was born in 1989, on March 1, in Mexico. To date, he protects the colors of Real Sociedad, although he started with Guadalajara. Well, about everything in order.

Start

At the Mexican club Guadalajara, Carlos Vela started playing with his brother Alejandro. In parallel, he was still a player of the Mexican national team (under 17 years). At the 2005 World Cup, the athlete became the key figure in the final match. In many ways it was thanks to him that the game ended in victory for Mexico with a score of 3: 0. Carlos was recognized as the top scorer of the championship, handed him the "Golden Boot". And then the leadership of "Guadalajara" offered the young scorer to conclude a professional contract.

Up until 2005, the player defended the colors of this club until he received an offer from Arsenal. Naturally, the Mexican agreed. The contract was concluded for five years. But since the Mexican striker failed to obtain a work permit in England, Arsenal sent the young man to rent.

Career in Spain

Carlos Vela in the 2005/06 season was listed in the club "Celta", but not a single match for this team did not play. In the next season he went to FC Salamanca. This club performed in the second division. In total, Carlos Vela played 31 games for the team and scored 8 goals. In general, he demonstrated a good game and more than once noted productive programs.

Then Carlos became interested in "Osasuna." The team leased the player for the season. For a year he played 33 matches and scored 3 goals. And after the 2007/08 season, Carlos Vela returned to Arsenal. After all, for the years he spent in Spain, he had the opportunity to make himself a citizenship. Accordingly, becoming a Spaniard, he acquired the full right to play for Arsenal.

And even before the football player acted on the left flank and was a midfielder, Arsene Wenger said that he sees him as a scorer. The debut of Carlos took place in 2008, on August 30. It was a match against Newcastle. And the first goals he began to score a month later. September 23 was a very good day for him, because that's when Arsenal played against Sheffield United. And that day his first hat-trick was designed by Carlos Vela. Footballer showed his skills. It's not for nothing that his second goal was called the club's fans one of the 50 best that Arsenal players have been successful in over the past forty years.

And the ball sent to them by Portsmouth on May 2, 2009, made the striker the second among the Mexicans in the history of the Premier League, who scored in this championship.

Further years and career in the national team

In 2011, Carlos Vela, the photo of which is presented above, moved to the season in "West Brom", where he played 8 matches and scored two goals. From 2011 to 2012 he defended the colors of the club "Real Sociedad", where he is listed today. For this team at the moment he played 119 matches and issued 47 goals.

The Mexican also plays for the national team, for the main team since 2007. And the results were not bad until 2010. Then Carlos Vela and Efraín Juárez, his teammate, unwittingly staged a party in a hotel in Monterrey, where they invited girls of easy virtue. So they celebrated the victory in the match against the Colombian national team. The players were punished with a semi-annual disqualification from the games.

But in general, the striker is famous for his really good game. True, he has few command achievements: only the CONCACAF Cup in 2009 and the title of the best scorer of the youth World Cup 2005.