Preview – Carlos Vela On Gold Cup Duty

Yesterday, the North American continent’s Premier International competition kicked off in the United States, with Carlos Vela hoping to make a strong impression on the tournament.

12 teams from North America and the Caribbean are fighting it out for the trophy, with Mexico billed as joint favourites with the USA. Indeed, it seems almost a given that Vela’s country will qualify to the knock-out stages, with their group consisting of Nicaragua, Panama and Guadeloupe. Their campaign kicks off against Nicaragua in a few hours and it looks very likely that Vela will spearhead their attacking play.

Mexico have been in very poor form in recent times, trailing Costa Rica, the US and Honduras in their bid to qualify for the 2010 World Cup. Vela spoke about this ahead of the competition and was at a loss to explain why this was the case:

“I don’t know. Maybe the midfield, ourselves, I don’t know. It’s been something very rigorous, something very drastic. I hope that now things will go on normally.”

In Vela, Mexico have one of the best young players in World football and he’ll be looking to impress ahead of pre-season, the start of which he will miss. Whatever happens in the competition, you can be sure that Carlos will play an important role and Young Guns will be bringing you details of his performances as the Tournament progresses.

Article By – Gianni Sonvico

24 thoughts on “Preview – Carlos Vela On Gold Cup Duty

  • July 5, 2009 at 6:53 pm
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    sweeet, when us kick-off in BST mate?

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  • July 5, 2009 at 6:59 pm
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    The tourney kicked off Friday. Canada started group play then.

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  • July 5, 2009 at 7:16 pm
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    JS do u know how to hack into Facebook accounts cause i got a paedophile looking at me sending me messages

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  • July 5, 2009 at 7:16 pm
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    its at midnight or 1 o clock in da morning

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  • July 5, 2009 at 8:15 pm
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    It’s 2am I believe, they’re -8hrs and it kicks-off at 7 California time. However, on the Gold cup site, tehy’re advertising live streaming from 11, so I’m at a loss.

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  • July 5, 2009 at 8:26 pm
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    im thinking about trying to find a stream later on to see how vela gets on but everywhere seems to say different times for kick off

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  • July 5, 2009 at 9:54 pm
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    It starts at midnight, if anyone finds a working stream, could they post it, I’d like to be able to watch the whole thing.

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  • July 5, 2009 at 10:22 pm
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    Yeah, just check out
    http://www.rojadirecta.org/
    and then there is a list of games that give you your time zone time,
    then just scroll down the list and you’ll find CONCACAF gold cup mexico vs nicaragua. click on it, then a bunch of links will appear. its a great site!!!

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  • July 5, 2009 at 11:21 pm
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    I have one, but thanks :)

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  • July 5, 2009 at 11:23 pm
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    He just came off due to an Injury. Oh well.

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  • July 5, 2009 at 11:27 pm
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    has vela gone off injured??

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  • July 5, 2009 at 11:32 pm
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    Yeah… :( That saves me 2 hours of my life I guess.

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  • July 5, 2009 at 11:33 pm
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    damn…he got injured,no surpise though : arsenal player playing for country = injured player

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  • July 6, 2009 at 9:21 am
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    im thinking about trying to find a stream later on to see how vela gets on but everywhere seems to say different times for kick off

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  • July 6, 2009 at 11:35 am
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    yep, could possibly miss start of the season according to Sky Sports News.

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  • August 28, 2009 at 10:29 am
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    thank you for this information. I hope u ll go on helping us to learn this kind of important issues Eğlence ve hüznün bir arada yaşandığı bir dünya.!!!

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