October 2 – Brazil Lose the World Cup
HERE is a name for you to remember: Carlos Vela. We reckon Carlos might soon become as familiar to football fans in England as Jeff Stelling and overpriced tickets.
Carlos hails from Mexico and is such a hot-tomalley that Arsene Wenger shelled out £2.5m to buy the young forward when he was a tender 16-year-old, and Wenger knows a thing or two about young players as Newcastle United found out to their cost in their recent Carling Cup tie.
Vela first came to prominence in 2005 as he led his country’s Under 17 side to victory in the U17 World Cup in Peru, and it was on this day that the Mexican’s beat favourites Brazil in the final 3-0 with Vela grabbing the first.
The icing on the cake for Vela was picking up the golden boot award for the tournament with five goals.
The U17 tournament had many of the traditionally ’smaller’ football nations in attendance including Qatar, Gambia and host nation Peru with only Italy, the Netherlands and Brazil representing the big guns from the senior game.
Vela was picked up by Arsenal soon after the tournament but those pesky work permit rules mean he will not be able to actually play for the Gunners until 2008 at the earliest. Instead, he has been loaned out to Celta Vigo, Salamanca and now Osasuna, all in Spain.
Arsene Wenger is clearly relishing the prospect of having Vela in contention at the Emirates. He said: “I like his intelligence and his pace. He scores goals but he can also create them. He’s a special talent and I believe 100 per cent that he will make it at the highest level.”
However, talent scouts beware: the youngster that won the Best Player award at the same tournament is Anderson, the young Brazilian who is currently making a career of being brought off at half-time by Sir Alex Ferguson after a £17m move in the summer.
Here is a handy montage of Vela’s scoring exploits for his various loan clubs and his national side, and head back on over this way tomorrow to read about a striker whose name means ‘golden’ and is trained in tae kwon do.
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