Monday morning

As many of you know we not only have the shop in Playa Fañabe but also run the shop owned by the club in the Callejón del Combate.

This leads to seeing many players come and go. Something I really like, it also feeds my need to travel with the team away as I see them so often. Not sure if that's good or not.
This morning Omar Ramos was about which I think will mean there is an announcement about where he is going. There are rumours he will sign for Huesca who will then loan him to Valladolid. The reason for this is Valladolid are in controlled bankruptcy and struggle to sign anyone. Rumour also says the club will maintain the possibility to earn a percentage on any future signing the player may have.
This can be a great help, if you look at Malaga, the will need to pay 10% to Las Palmas on the money they receive from Rubin Kazan for Roldon or even the money CDT received for Dos Santos when he went to play in Portugal.
Training this week is in the Mundialito Wednesday they play Granadilla and Saturday after training in the Heliodoro the team fly to Las Palmas to play the second round of the Copa Canarias Mahou.

CajaCanarias and online tickets.

The club has announced that Season tickets will go on sale from the first of July and that there will be 15000 available. They actually sold a little over 9,000 last year so this will be a big jump if they manage to sell them all. It has been announced that the cost will be the minimum. How much that actually is is still to be announced but I would guess we will know in the next few days. Also announced was that they will try to make buying them as easy as possible. There were interest free loans last year so maybe that will be available this year as well.

It was also announced in the presentation of the club in Caja Canarias that there is a plan in motion for tickets to be available for sale online next season. As CajaCanarias have a ticket selling business this seems only plausible. It will help residents in the North and the South of the Island. From the Stadium you can choose the seats that are available but in the other selling locations you can only choose form the tickets they have been given.

When is comes to transfers the AS has announced that in an interview with Braulio he has said he would only transfer to Tenerife. Tiro Federal Eziquel Luna's team seem very keen to sell him. They have announced they are awaiting an offer from CD Tenerife and perhaps they have put the price too high.

Tickets behind both goals have completely sold out and the rest are expected to sell during the week.

We have tickets and other things

I am pleased to say we have tickets for sunday. I am sorry my husband had to wait all night in fornt of the shop in Los Cristianos, but I did offer.

When he got there last night there were already 30+ queueing and by the time I phoned him at 7am this morning there were over 150. Not long after that the police came by and told then to queue in a different line. By the time the shop started selling the tickets there were over 400 people there waiting for tickets. Behind the goal went in 10 mins and the rest were expected to go soon after. there had been people camping outside the stadium since sunday.

The club have anounced that they will sign up the trainer for a further contract from next monday onwards and they are now begining to look at players for next year.

There are rumors about Braulio who played for Salamanca this year and Pablo Sicilia has anouced that his first choice would be to stay with the Club. Nino has at least one more year on his contract. We will see what is to come!!!!

Here is the presentation of the team in Caja Canarias our biggest sponsor.

A Primera

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This was a weekend to remember. The game on Saturday was sentenced by Kome at the end of the first half. Although Girona had a couple of shots at goal a draw would have been enough for being qualified for the first division.

My Shirt which you can't see says:

06/07 we formed a team

07/08 we dreamed

08/09 we had faith

and the moment arrived!!!

There were nearly 30,000 people in the Plaza de España to watch the game and 200,000 people took to the streets to watch the riumphant arrival of the team home to Tenerife and their presentation at the Cabildo.

The fans started celebrating in the fountain at half time having decided the goal was enough to qualify us. ( Going in the fountain is completely forbidden but the Island president had previously stated if we went to the first league then as a special occasion playing in the water would be allowed.

Below is a photo of the president of the club in the fountain.

This was taken on Sunday afternoon waiting for the team to arrive.

Lucky Day

I have a really good feeling about today. This is going to be the day we go up!!!
We are going to watch the game in Santa Cruz in the main square Plaza de España.
Canal Canarias has an enormous screen (6*4 metres) on the Plaza and will have pre-show from 15.00 onwards. They will have information about the 2 Canarian games which are both today and interviews with ex-tenerife players. The game will be show live form Montlivi the Girona stadium. With replays of the other goles from the other games.

Sunday presuming we go up there will be a procession of the team in an open to bus from the top of the city down to the Plaza de España starting at 13.00 onwards.

What a game

This was really a game to have seeN. We arrived over 1 hour before the start and the stadium was already half full. There was hissing and booing as the Xerez fans came out to warm up and Ovations as the Tenerife players came on.

There was a great mosiac provided by the Caja Canarias which looked awesome in the stadium.

For both teams this was an important game. A draw would have given Xerez (Jerez)mathematical qualification and keep Tenerife in with a chance for going up. Oltra our trainer had said on Saturday "All we need to do is concentrate and win. Even if we don't win we depend on ourselves but a win is what we need."

The game started well with both teams playing their best. An early goal from Alfaro put Tenerife in the lead. But for Tenerife worst was to come. After 27 minutes the ref sent Ricardo off with a direct red card for a foul. Tenerife need to pull theseles together and play even better and tht is what they did. Until half time they held the ball and just got on with defending.

At half time there was "El Chut de tu Vida" an chance for a lucky few to score a goal from the half way line and win money from the BBA bank the main sponsor of the first and second division here. No one won but it passsed a few minutes.

At the begining of the second half Xerez had a few chances but fortunately there wasn't a goal. Nino sentenced the game in the 84th minute. The Tenerife team played like heroes and a team worthy of being in "La Liga"

Next weekend they play against Girona away and hopefully will be mathematicaly qualified to go up.

This was taken  after the game ended. The fans just stayed and stayed. The marked board has Tenerife first which is why there is so much fuss. The player giving up his shirt was Pablo Sicilia but he was not the only one last night.

Telling day

Today might be an important day for Tenerife even if they are not playing. Hercules play today and if they lose this would mean That Xerez are qualified and Tenerife are nearly qualified. With a 6 point lead against Hercles they are already nearly there but it would be great to finish the weekend mathematically qualified.
Have a great day

We have tickets

With a lot of luck and Thomas waiting about 5 hours in total over the 2 days we have 3 tickets for Sundays game. There were queues everywhere. The tickets in Santa Cruz sold out in the morning except the Tribuna which are 37 euros a seat. Those sold out in the afternoon.

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In the south it was not clear that there would be tickets until gone 4pm Originally it had been announced that there would be no more than 4 tickets per person. At 4pm they then announced there would only be 2 tickets per person and if there were left overs you could queue again. He was very lucky and managed to get three so we can all go together. The seats are near each other but not too near so we will try to swap when we get there. Just to be going is the most special thing.

Still going up

Saturdays game was a blow. It had to come but still our first loss in 17 games was hard. What can't be forgotten is we are still in the top 3 and still in a good position to be going up to the first division.
Hercules played well and they still see they have a chance for ascending too. They played a sensationsl first half with 2 goles from Delibasic and one from Abel Aguilar.
CD tenerife played well but they were unable to make that final pass to the shot at gole . In the second half Nino sscored to bring the score to 3-1 but after that there was just no going through.
The club is calling for maximum suport for the home games that are left with the hope of winning 9 poiints at home which should give up enough points to ascend. Tickets go on sale from tuesday at 10.00 at all ticket sales points. See you in the stadium on sunday at six

CD Tenerife to the first division!!!

For the first time there was the shout in the stadium of 'We are going to the first division "Nos Vamos a Primera" 'On a warm sunny Sunday morning nearly 17,000 people managed to come to see their team. Considering the game was also televised this was a great turnout.

There was a memorial for Rommel Fernandez. Cristo presented flowers at the memorial which was at the Popular end of the field.

The game started well and there was a early chance by JuanLu which hit the side bar. Alfaro headed the first goal in minute 23 and followed it up with another header in the goal 25 minutes later. The final goal was form Juan Lu. Although Nino had chances it just wasn't his day. Ayoze, Angel and Cristo Marrero

Tenerife v. Murcia

It seems every game is a final this late into the season. We move form game to game calculating and recalculating to see the possibility of us ending up in the top 3 and actually going up to La Liga.
Tenerife has actually not lost at home since the 30/11/2008. There was a draw on the 15th of march but other than that we have won every game. Tomorrows game is at 12.00 as it is the Canal Plus game for sunday morning. Tickets behind the home goal are sold out but there are seats everywhere else. Murcia have a few injured but will be looking to play well so Tenerife will need to play their best and we should have another win.

CD Tenerife another win

Although we didn't get to see the game we had a wonderful afternoon at home with friends watching it on Canal Plus. I usually like to watch Tenerife games on Canal Canarias as they are very pro us. With the Derby they need to be less biased .
The game was good. Tenerife struggled in the first half to find their rhythm but in the second half they clearly dominated the game. The first goal came from Richi and the second from the second leagues highest gole scorer Nino. The pass for the second gole came from Angel a local player who was playing his first derby and celebrating his birthday.
It was a great game and although it had been catagorised as a high risk game for the fans there was no trouble and the Canariones went safely back to Gran Canaria. The points leave us with a 4 point gap between us and the 4th team. This gives us a breathing space against Zaragoza next weekend. T
Tenerife has filled 2 planes of fans for the next game. So there will be a good crowd for the away game.

C D Tenerife won 5-1

Today was a great day. I don't think I have ever seen Tenerife score 5 goals.We had to get up early to get to Santa Cruz but it was definitely worth it.
Goles were scored 2 Alfaro 2 Richi and 1 from Nino. They played really well and held the ball endlessly in the second half.
Here are some video clips taken at the game.
This is whilst they warm up.

The Canarian flag and our new screen.

The teams comming out to play.

The start of the second half

During play

I thought I had the end of the game and the final score and the fact we are again 2nd in the league but I obviously pressed the wrong button. We are going in 2 weeks to the Canarian Derby against Las Palmas which Thomas has never been happy about our going to before. I am really looking forward to it.

Have a great day.

The other thing we went out to eat at a restaurant in San Isidro on Friday. The food was wonderful and the service was good. It is called El Jable and if you want information please contact me.