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}} Carlos Alberto Vela Garrido (born 1 March 1989) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a winger or a forward for Spanish club Real Sociedad and the Mexico national team. He started his career at Mexican club C.D. Guadalajara and caught the eye of various European clubs after finishing as the top scorer at the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship, finally joining Premier League club Arsenal that year. After joining Arsenal he had loan spells at Spanish clubs Salamanca and Osasuna, as well as fellow English club West Bromwich Albion, finally joining Real Sociedad on loan, then permanently on 10 August 2012. Vela made his debut with the senior national team in 2007 in a friendly match against Brazil, and scored his first goal for Mexico in a friendly against Guatemala. He participated in Mexico's CONCACAF Gold Cup victory in 2009, and participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa. His last participation with the national team came on 29 March 2011 in a match against Venezuela, with Vela rejecting all subsequent call-ups including friendlies, World Cup qualifiers and various major tournaments including the 2014 World Cup, citing various reasons for his refusals. In November 2014 Vela made his return to the national team. Aside from his Mexican nationality, Vela holds a Spanish passport. ==Early life== Carlos Alberto Vela Garrido was born 1 March 1989 in Cancún, Quintana Roo to Enrique Vela, an iron welder from Campeche, and Nella Garrido, a stay at home mother from Tabasco. His father had played semi-professional football but an injury caused by a torn ligament caused him to retire. At the age of four Carlos's father enrolled him into local teams. Vela's first club was "Ko Cha Wolis", which translates to "Kicking Round Ball" in Mayan. He learned a lot and made a lot of development and progress during his time spent there according to Félix Acal, his coach at the time.〔 In school, Carlos played both basketball and football simultaneously, which caused many problems between his coaches. His father made him decide to focus on only one sport at the age of 12, in which Carlos chose football. Enrique Vela was frustrated at the fact that his son Carlos was not being scouted due to living in Cancún, a rural town of México. Around the same time José Luis Real of Guadalajara's Youth System sent scouts to Cancún in 2001 in which Carlos Vela caught their eye. He was summoned to a youth tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina with Guadalajara as a small trial period with unpaid expenses. In 2003 during a local competition held in Ciudad Victoria, Carlos was seen and was presented with offers with local teams of the Primera División, including Pachuca. He eventually joined Guadalajara in 2003, though he never received a call up to the club's first-team squad, thus not being able to make his professional debut in Mexico.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carlos Vela」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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