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.

I hope when the final whistle blows we are ahead.

Julio Álvarez was the player picked to talk to the media on Thursday in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López press room. Here e started talking about the game tomorrow, Friday against Xerez. “We will need to work hard to achieve a win. There are three important points and we need to fight as hard as we can”.
Following this theme he talked about the game”We need to concentrate in being the best, better than our rival. The objective is to get better with every game we play. We are competing well. We need to overcome Xerez and I hope that when the referee whistles the final blow we are ahead of our rival on the score board”.
To finish, Julio Álvarez looked at his personal journey in the blue and white team. “I am helping as much as I can had have done so since the first day. Sometimes things work out better than others. But I have always tried to add my grain of sand to the group for the teams benefit”.
The team trained for an hour and 15 mionutes today in the Heliodoro with the doors closed and present was also Josmar Zambrano from the B team. Tommorrow is the last session for the week at 11.00 again with closed doors before tomorrows nights game against Xerez.
After tomorrows session the coach will name the squad who will be present in the stadium.

List of players travelling to Vigo. Mikel Alonso in the list.

The CD Tenerife first team trained this morning in the last session on the island for the week, Tomorrow, Friday they travel to Vigo where they will play their next league game. The session took place in El Mundialito grounds and took an hour and 20 minutes.
The session started with warm up, exercises with the ball, running practice over the whole grounds and a game with two teams over three quarters of the ground.
Ricardo León continued his recovery separate from the group and Josmar Zambrano y Dani Mederos, from CD Tenerife B, were also present.
At the end of the session coach Antonio Tapia, gave the list of the players who would be travelling to Galicia for the game against RC Celta, the list consisted of Luis García, Marc Bertrán, Antonio Hidalgo, Nino, Igor, Omar, Natalio, Beranger, Sergio Aragoneses, Kome, David Prieto, Juanlu, Melli, Ezequiel Luna, Julio Álvarez, Kitoko, Dubarbier & Míkel Alonso.
On Friday the last training session of the week is due to take place on the mainland at 16:45 (Canarian time) in the Ciudad Deportiva “A Madroa de Vigo”.

Wednesday interview with Melli and Dubarbier

Sebastián Dubarbier & Melli were the two players who met the media on Wednesday in the press room in the El Mundialito grounds.





The mid fielder commented that “we have two consecutive wins and we need to continue this way to move as fast as we can out to the bottom of the table. I see a squad with a need to do well and improve and the desire to win more games”.
Continuing along this theme the blue and white “22”s stated, “We have an idea about how we want to play. We are trying the best we can but there is still room for improvement so the games can continue the way we want to”.
Dubarbier also pointed out the level of the squad, “ We have a great team fit to fight and win three points against any opponent. Now we need to play again as visitors and go all out for a win. Then we can see how the game turns out. The objective is save the team, we want to be in a safer position in the table,” he added.
To finish the Argentine footballer talked about his time here in Tenerife and the team, “I really like the island. I know we have to do things well and wait and see what we can achieve. If only I can stay here in the club. The group is outstanding and everyone has helped me. I know I still need to do more but I have adapted well”.
Melli, in the mean time, started by commenting the path the team has followed over the last few games. “we went to Salamanca with the idea to improve and that we did. The following weekend we were capable of beating the leader and now again we need to fight for the three points. The coach insists that we have to continue improving, but you can see we are doing things well and that is more positive”, he added.
To conclude the defender from Andalusia said, “every player in the squad is important. There are competent people and if I get the chance to play I will do the best possible job. I am calm, I know that I can play in various positions and help the team”, he finished.
The first team trained this morning, Wednesday, in a session that lasted two hours. The practise included warm-up, work with the ball including circulation, offensive and defensive moves and a series of games in reduced space
Ricardo León completed the first part of the the work with the group and then worked on his own with a trainer. Also present as often were Tenerife B players Dani Mederos y Josmar Zambrano.
CD Tenerife realise on Thursday their last training session for the week on the island at 10.00 in the El Mundialito grounds. After which trainer Antonio Tapia will give a press interview and the list of players due to travel to Balaídos for the game against RC Celta.

On Thursday there will be a meeting in the HRL Stadium between the president and the Fan clubs. This is part of the group of events given to celebrate the five year aniversary of the presiden Miguel Concepcion and his advisors.

Richie Kitoko hopes to play again soon.

The first team were all together on Tuesday to return to work for the first of this weeks training sessions in the El Mundalito grounds. The blue and whites trained for two hours although the players who played a full match did not work as hard in the second hour concentrating on recovery exercises.
The others warmed up, played football tennis, then a game with three goals in half the pitch, work on one on one plays, and then quick games with four teams.
Ricardo León completed the first two activities with his team mates and then did specific actions to help his recovery with trainer, Adrián Gutiérrez. Omar Ramos had to stop early. Also present were Josmar Zambrano y Dani Mederos from the CD Tenerife B team.
The blue and whites will be back training tomorrow Wednesday from 10 am again in the Mundialito.
After the session was finished present in the press room was Ritchie Kitoko, whose comments on how the team find themselves right now included, “We need to maintain this high level. We are going to Vigo to win because we need these three points. The team is showing signs of improvement. We have won two games in a row and now are more confident”.
When asked about the support of the fans in the last game the player from Congo stated, “I had been told that the fans here are a great help, and that is how it is. It was fantastic. It helps us a great deal”.
Lastly, Kitoko confirmed that he feels one hundred percent as he has finished his caution. “I am ready for whatever the coach asks me. I feel good and if the coach wants me to play then I will try to everything he asks of me”.

Agenda for the week 17 - 23 January 2011

The CD Tenerife first team have five training sessions before the meet UD Las Palmas in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López. Their  rest day will be Monday this week.

Agenda for the week 17 - 23 January 2011

DAY	TIME	PLACE	ACTIVITY
Monday	-	-	Rest day
Tuesday	10.00	El Mundialito	Training
Wednesday	10.00	El Mundialito	Training
Thursday	10.00	Heliodoro	Training
Friday	10.00	El Mundialito	Training
Friday	-	El Mundialito	Press conference with Mandía
Saturday	10.00	Heliodoro	Training
Saturday	-	Heliodoro	List of players
Sunday	11.00	Heliodoro	CD Tenerife-UD Las Palmas

Agenda for the week 06 - 12 December 2010

The week starts again for Mandía's players  with training today a rest day tomorrow  and training the rest of the week. Lets  hope that nothing will stop the coming  weekends game.  Agenda for the week 06 - 12 December  2010

DAY	TIME	PLACE	ACTIVITY
Monday	10:00	El Mundialito	Training
Tuesday	-	-	Day off
Wednesday	10.00	El Mundialito	Training
Thursday	10.00	El Mundialito	Training
Friday	10.00	Heliodoro	Training
Friday	-	Heliodoro	Press conference Carlos Mandía
Friday	-	Heliodoro	List of Players
Friday	-	-	Journey to Huelva (vía Sevilla)
Saturday	-	-	Training
Sunday	16.00	Nuevo Colombino	Recreativo-CD Tenerife

Beranger comments on the team spirit

The CD Tenerife first team completed the weeks training with a last session this morning, Saturday, in the sports city in Castellon. They started at 11am Canarian time and concluded sixty minutes later.
After individual warm up, there was ball practice, followed by a game in half the field. Finally towards the end of the session, Julio Álvarez had muscle difficulties in his right leg, and couldn't complete the training.

Juanlu & Beranger were the players interviewed this Saturday after the morning training session in Castellon. The two CD Tenerife players both agreed that the game on Sunday against Villarreal B presents itself as a great opportunity for the team to show all the good things they have trained in the last few months.
“We are here with every intention to repeat and improve all the skills we have shown this year. We need to work hard as you always must to win away form home”, Juanlu Hens started to explain.
For the midfielder it is most important “to keep the ball under control as much as possible. This week we have been over this again and again we have trained hard but this has been the most important point”.
About their rival, he pointed out “They are a difficult team to beat and w will need to concentrate. Villarreal B are no easy option. We can make no mistakes. This second team are full of rapid players who know how to apply pressure. In attack they can count on important players. Our defense needs to be really solid”.
When asked about his performance to date, Juanlu has things clear “every player needs to give his all. Personally I feel good, with a desire to help the group”.

For his part, Gregory Beranger considered that “we are on a long path. We are improving, we have improved, above all at home. The next point is to win away and bring back three points to the island”.
“We have done things right and wrong, and we need to work hard to maintain the right line for more minutes. We are growing”, he added when he was asked about his impressions on the teams level to date.
In his personal ability the Frenchman noted that “In the last game I had more work, I suffered more. But the opposition also has a right to play. In a team you need to work together”.
“I fight day by day to reach my best fitness level, although the dynamics of the team doesn't help. Being at the bottom of the table is always hard and you see every mistake. We need time and to work hard to improve”, he explained.
“Our rival doesn't look like a second team. They are a team with expert players. We need to go out and give our all. With luck they will have a bad day and we will gain three points”, he finished.

Agenda for the week 22 - 28 November 2010

The start of a new week's training for next weekends game but I am sure the team have a more positive outlook for the week.

Agenda for the week 22 - 28 November 2010

DAY	TIME	PLACE	ACTIVITY
Monday	10.00	El Mundialito	Training
Tuesday	-	-	Descanso
Wednesday	10.00	El Mundialito	Training
Thursday	10.00	El Mundialito	Training
Friday	11.00	HRL	Training
Friday	-	HRL	Press conference with Mandía
Friday	-	HRL	List of players
Friday	15.00	Los Rodeos	Tenerife Norte-Madrid (UX)
Friday	-	-	Bus Madrid-Castellón
Friday	-	Castellón	Hotel NH Mindoro
Saturday	-	-	Training
Sunday	16.00	Mini Estadi	Villarreal B-CD Tenerife
Sunday	-	-	Bus Castellón-Madrid
Sunday	-	Madrid	Hotel
Monday	09.05	Madrid	Madrid-Tenerife Norte (UX)

Final training session of the season

The first team of Club Deportivo Tenerife will take their last training session of the season on Tuesday morning at 10 am in the Complejo Federativo Juan Padrón Morales also know as the Mundalito.






At the end of this (about 11.30) the team Sports Director, Santiago Llorente, will offer an informative talk infornt of the media present in the press room of the Mundialito training ground.





The players for their part will start their holidays after the training session.


There seems to be a feeling on several CDT forums that the something important will be announced.


Also in the news is a comment from Vitolo a Tenerife footballer now playing in Greece for Paok. The team has come third this year and has the right to the play offs for Champions League. Inspite of this Vitolo says he  " still have the doors open for Tenerife. This team gave me everything and if at a given time I thought I could help them I would come home even in the second division." Vitolo leaves the chance to come back to Tenerife because of the enormous affection he feels for the club from his home. He and his family are all season ticket holders in the club. He finished "perhaps for other teams I wouldn't be available but with CD Tenerife we could talk and come to a satisfactory agreement."

Training started for the game against Valencia.

The team trained for 80 minutes this morning in the Mundialito training grounds. The trainer José Luis Oltra, talked to the players for a few minutes before they started. This week there is training for the game in Mestalla against Valencia on Sunday.
They warmed up running a few rounds of the field and then did exercises with possession and circulation of the ball. At this point the players were divided into 2 groups. For those who played last Saturday there was recuperation and game in half a football pitch for those reserves who hadn't played. Kome was not involved and worked on his own with Adrián Gutiérrez.
Tomorrow the players have a day off and then training starts again on Wednesday in the Mundialito grounds.

The club gave thanks again to the fans who have attended games both on Saturday and this season generally. There has been an average attendance of over 19,000 fans.
The club is trying to organise trips to Valencia so fans can go to the last game.

Training intensifies for the game on Monday.

The first team in CD Tenerife continued their trainingon Friday in preparation for Monday nights game against RCD Mallorca. This will be the 22nd round of the lBBV league. The team trained for an hour and 50 minutes in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium. Amongast other things there was a talk form their chief trainer José Luis Oltra. Then they warmed up and worked both at ball skills and with pressure exercises. The session finshed with a game between two teams. All the players started out at training including the winger Carlos Bellvis but he only took part in some of the group training so he could continue with his recovery plan.

This morning the team again trained in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium from 10am and after that trainer José Luis Oltra had his usual press conference. The team trained today for 90 minutes this is the penultimate session before the game against Baleric team.

The session started at 10am and the players practised strategies and finshed with shots at goal. The next training will be tomorrow, Sunday in The Heliodoro form 10am

La práctica tuvo lugar en el Heliodoro y dio comienzo pasadas las 10:00 horas. Tras el habitual calentamiento se llevó a cabo trabajo de estrategia y más tarde centros y remates. Se acabó la sesión con series de disparos a portería. Todos los jugadores de la primera plantilla tomaron parte del entrenamiento. After this session trainer Jose Luis Oltra will give the list of the players called up for Monday's game.

Preparation for Saturdays game.

After a Day off on Tuesday the team started work towards Saturdays game in Valladolid in the José Zorrilla stadium at 5pm (4pm Canarian and UK time.). The players trained yesterday for 90 minutes in the Mundialito training grounds.
After warming up the players did a round of circuit training with balls. Then they played a series of training games with groups of 4 players and a keeper. The keepers from Tenerife B Toño Ramírez y Dani Mederos were also present for training. The oly players from CDT who didn't train were Dani Kome and Marc Bertran.
Today the team will train in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López from 10 am.

In Interviews after the training


Carlos Bellvís comented that it was their turn to have some joy away, they know that they are visiting a difficult team but if all the lines do their part then a win is possible. " We are going with the idea of winning and don't think any further than the next game."


Míkel Alonso, stated that the team needed to continue inproving to win games "Valladolid if you look at the league tables is a comparable to us although they are playing at home." He also reminded the press that at this level all games are difficult and any rival can complicate things. That Valladolid could be a as difficult or more so to play than Sevilla.

Schedule for 02 al 07 de november 2009

Day	Time	Place	Activity
Monday	-	-	rest
Tuesday	-	-	rest
Wednesday	10:00	El Mundialito	Training
Wednesday	16:30	Heliodoro	Training
Thursday	10:00	El Mundialito	Training
Friday	10:00	Heliodoro	Training
Friday	-	Heliodoro	Press conference with JL Oltra
Friday	-	Heliodoro	List for game
Saturday	17:00	Heliodoro	CD Tenerife-Málaga CF

This is the list of training etc. for the week.

Tickets for Saturdays game go on sale from Thursday onwards. The tickets for the cup game next Tuesday the 10th of November at 19.00 go on slae on Thursday as well. The tickets for the cup are from 10 euros. Season Ticket holders tickets include this cup round. Hopefully as many as possible will be there to support the team.

Training before Xerez

At the end of today's training Head coach jose Luis Oltra gave the list of the playrs called up for tomorrows game. They are: Sergio Aragoneses, Luis García, Aitor Núñez, Pablo Sicilia, Ezequiel Luna, Manolo Martínez, Bellvís, Ayoze, Kome, Omar, Juanlu, Nino, Ángel, Richi, Román, Mikel Alonso, Alfaro y Dinei.
Missing from the last list are Culebras y Saizar, returning Manolo Martínez from injury and Román form 5 yellow cards and contract details..

They trained this morning for 1 hour and 40 mins After warming up the team practised specific plays and then played a game in a smaller space. On Friday the team trained in the Heliodoro Lopez, the president of the Armada Sur was in the stadium buying tickets and stopped to watch. He said that Nino was practising shots at goal long after the rest of the players were gone so hopefully we will see as good a goal as we saw the last time CD Tenerife played against Xerez.

This coming Sunday the new gates ordered at the end of the last season as part of the work that needed doing for the stadium to be aproved for use for the first division have been installed and will go into action. Thus far the gates are in Herradura Baja, San Sebastian baja and gate 25 in San Sebastian. I think the gate 25 is mentioned separately as this is where the boxes are.


The grat thing with these gates is that the visitors themselves actually get to pass their ticket or season ticket across a reader which should make the entrace of the fansmuch quicker. This system is in use in many stadiums across the frist division.



The gates will be open from 14.30 so that the fans in genmeral and particularly the mentioned gates will have access without any rush or panic to their seats before the game starts.

Tomorrow's game against Real Sociedad in the final of the Teide Trophy

After 2 training sessions yesterday (Friday) the team is preparing for tomorrows game against Real Sociedad at 8.30 pm in Estadio Los Cuartos in La Orotava. This is the final of the Trofeo Teide being played. This is by far their most difficult match so far. Real Sociedad are a Basque team in the second division and were in Primera until 2 seasons ago.
The team started training at 10 am and worked in groups of 3. The session was 80 minutes long and they practiced shots at goal. There will be another session tomorrow morning before the game an on Monday they are off to Murcia for their next leg of summer training.