One of Mexico's young promises will be playing for the Basque football team Osasuna from Iruña in Navarre. This article was published at Sporting Life:
I wish him the best of lucks.
Arsenal striker agrees loan switch
Highly-rated Arsenal youngster Carlos Vela will be unveiled as an Osasuna player on Saturday evening after joining the Basque club on loan.
The 18-year-old Mexican striker, who recently starred at the Under-20 World Cup in Canada, spent last season with Spanish lower-league side Salamanca.
This year, however, he will experience top-flight European football for the first time after joining the Pamplona club.
Vela has joined last year's UEFA Cup semi-finalists on a year-long loan deal from Arsenal, becoming the Pamplona-based club's sixth summer signing in the process.
The teenager is not worried though about making the step up to the top flight.
"This level does not frighten me. It is a dream for me," he said.
"I played in the second division and now I face a new challenge. Osasuna is a good place to show my ability."
Vela is also hoping to get his chance to impress Osasuna coach Jose Angel Ziganda as soon as possible, with first-team places in the team's forward line up for grabs following a summer of change at the Reyno de Navarra.
Out have gone four of last year's strikeforce in Roberto Soldado, Savo Milosevic, Bernardo Romeo and Pierre Webo, while the likes of Javier Portillo, Nicolas Medina, Walter Pandiani and Vela have been drafted in.
"Everybody wants to play in the starting X1. I have the opportunity to have playing time with a team which are always fighting for the UEFA Cup places, and that is very important," Vela said.
Osasuna sporting director Juan Jose Lorenzo said of the youngster, who impressed in the recent Under-20 World Cup in Canada: "I want to thank Arsenal, Carlos and his advisors for their confidence in us.
"We think that Osasuna is a good place to develop and at the same time he can help us. We hope that he shows here everything he has shown at his other clubs."
I wish him the best of lucks.
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