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.

Weeks training from 23/11-29/11

Agenda del 23 al 29 de noviembre de 2009

Day	Time	Place	Activity
Monday	10:00	El Mundialito	Training
Tuesday	-	-	Rest day
Wednesday	10:00	El Mundialito	Training
Thursday	10:00	Heliodoro	Training
Friday	10:00	El Mundialito	Training
Friday	-	El Mundialito	Press Conference JL Oltra
Friday	-	El Mundialito	List of players
Saturday	-	Valladolid	Training
Sunday	16:00	José Zorrilla	Real Valladolid-CD Tenerife

CD Teberife v Sevilla game notes

CD TENERIFE 1 (0)
SEVILLA FC 2 (1)

CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Pablo Sicilia, Manolo Martínez, Ezequiel Luna, Bellvis (Ayoze, 67’); Mikel Alonso, Ricardo; Juanlu Hens (Dinei, 82’), Román Martínez (Ángel, 56’), Omar Ramos & Nino.

SEVILLA FC
Javi Varas; Konko, Marc Valiente (Lolo, 66’), Squillaci, Fernando Navarro; Jesús Navas, Renato, Zokora, Perotti; Luis Fabiano (Álvaro Negrero, 76’) & Kanouté (Romaric, 60’).

REFEREE
Javier Estrada Fernández, from Catalaluna. Yellow cards for CDT players Omar (13’), Bellvís (48’), Nino (79’) y Luna (86’), and for the visitors Luis Fabiano (39’), Perotti (40’) y Jesús Navas (91’).

GOALS
0-1: (31’) Perotti finished a counter attack lay by Jesús Navas. 0-2: (47’) Renato, with a hard kick vfrom a frontal attack. 1-2: (74’) Nino scored with a ball from Juanlu.

INCIDENTS
Heliodoro Rodríguez López. 20.552 spectators. Warm afternoon. 1 minutes silence was held fro ex CDT footballer Robert Enke. CD Tenerife joined the campaign“Santa Cruz, una sola voz contra la violencia de género” Santa Cruz a single voice against domestic violence.

Kome back but injured

Kome was back at training yesterday but has an injured leg muscle and it is questionable if he will play on Saturday.

There were more than 200 people waiting to buy seats for Saturdays game this morning in Santa Cruz. The game is expected to sell out.

In interviews yesterday in the press room at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López Stadium Carlos Bellvis stated "I can see a very competitive team and we are capable of staying up. The fans always help us. On Saturday I hope the Helidoro will be full and am sure the fans will be ther to support us on hundred percent". When asked abou Sevilla Bellvis commented that they were a great team with many great players especially their forwards. "We know that a simple error could cost us the game. So we will need to be very concentrated from the first minute onwards."

Sergio Aragoneses started his interview by commenting that they were talking about a very complicated rival, a team that in the last few years has always been in European competitions. "That said," he continued "it is a game that anyone could win. We need to make the most of our chances as they present themselves. We need to go all out to win because the best would be if those three points stay here at home." To conclude he confirmed that the support of the fans will be very very necessary.


Miguel Concepción again affirmed that nothing had been discussed about paying the players an extra payment if they stayed in the first division. He said the players hadn't asked for anything all they need is to go out and win the 45 points the club needed to stay up.

Tickets for Sevilla game go on sale.

Tickets go on sale this morning for the game on Saturday. Sevilla are third in the league, but Capel is away with the under 21's and Adriano Correia has problems with his stomach muscles. We will see what is to be. Of the 14 visits from Sevilla in Tenerife CDT has won half the games.

In a Player interview yesterday Roman Martinez stated that the team wanted to gift a win against Sevilla FC to the fans.

The club has just employed ex referee from the Primera Division, Manuel Ángel Pérez Lima, to help with technical advice for the players and coaches.

The president of CD Tenerife, Miguel Concepción in an interview on Radio COPE yesterday (Tuesday) covered various points of interest. He stated that he would have liked the team to have won the round in the Copa Del Rey but it wasn't possible and now the team needs to look forward and try to reach the 45 points that we need to stay in the first division. He commented that this is not going to be easy but everyone is confident that the team will get there. He also spoke of the attempt to try to raise the number of shares that members need to go to the AGM, He stated that what they wnated to do was within company law and there would be a vote to see if thiswas what the shareholders wanted. When asked about the number of delegates he confirmed that the club was looking for a maximum of seven and a minimum of five. Lastly he talked about the timing of games he has been in meetings with the president and vicepresident of the LFP( Spanish professional football league) and now needs to talk to Media Pro representative Jaume Roures where he hopes to come to a solution which respects the Canarian time difference. He asks that they respect the times in the league and that we are not asking for a favor just that the team is treated the same as every other team.

Cristo Marrero an ex CDT player who was on the Island took the time to pass by training yesterday to visit the team and the trainers.

CD Tenerife v Sevilla FC

The first really big game of the season is this coming weekend on Saturday at 5pm in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López Stadium.
Tickets go on sale in the stadium on Thursday and Friday from 10.00-13.00 and 17.00-20.00. On Saturday the box office will be open all day from 10 in the morning until the game starts. Tickets will also be available in the Bar Canario in Puerto de la Cruz and the bookshop Libreria Raquel y Carla in Playa de las Americas.

Due to work going on in the box office and the gates for requirements by the LFP ( Spanish football federation) it will not be possible to do anything with season tickets until the 17th of November. The club apologizes for any inconvenience it may offer.


The club shop is taking orders for xmas. They are open from Monday to Friday from 10.00-13.30 and 17.00 to 20.30 and Saturday from 10.30-1400. Dont forget season ticket holders get 10 % discount in the shop.






CD Tenerife B have Alcorcon this Sunday. Alcorcon have made history this season by knocking Real Madrid out of the cup in the last round. Lets see if our team can do better than this. The game is at 11 am in the CIAT de Tincer on Sunday.

Positive thoughts

Although it is hard right now I need to think positively or I will be sad.

Thoughts include the comentator for the weekend game who after the goals encouraged the fans to shout the name of the players who had scored. This is new and created a great extra element for the fans.

Omar has been called up for the Spanish under 21's and will be part of the squad who goes to play against Finland, this Friday; & Holland, on Tuesday the 17 de november.
Marc Bertran has announced that he hopes to be back for the Barcelona game at the begining of January.

In an interview with Eziquel Luna he stated, " We are out of the cup and need to concentrate on the league.We need to get better, all the players in many ways. We need to continue working. We are all pulling in the same direction, we are great collegues. We need to stay calm and continue to work together. You can understand that the fans are cross but between us all we will pull through." When asked about his own playing he answered, "I am really fed up as the things are not coming the way I would like them. It hurts when people talk badly about you, but I know I made mistakes."
However he plays it is wrong to do what 3 fans aparently did after the Celta game. They aparently were waiting outside the stadium and when he came out of the stadium with his wife and child were exceptionally nasty. The club aparently has this on camera and is following it up.

The players are of today and back in the Mundialito tomorrow at 10 am and the same time and place on Saturday . Then off Sunday.

Hasta la muerte

This was the phrase I came away form the game with. After the Celta goal the whole stand was destroyed. The only sounds to be heard were a minute later from the Singing stand where this is what they sung. I don't know the whole song but these words were the ones we could hear. And they describe how I feel. The translate in this instance to Until death do us part the good times and the bad times CDT is my team. This was a bad game we had a great chance which wasn't converted into a goal. The ball came all the way up but there were almost no shots on goal and those that were near went wide.
We came away sad but as ever making excuses. " two competitions would have been too much", "We didn't pick up until after the winter break last year" and "its a shame Kome wasn't there" were heard on the walk back to the car. All those are true and there was nothing wrong with them but the game was bad. Nino is clearly nervous and it is a pity but at least he gave his all when he came on, no one can ask for more then that he tries.
They have 10 days break for internationals and I hope that they can try to get back some of the spark we saw at the begining of the season. It must be hard to struggle week in week out.

Stats for last nights game:

CD TENERIFE 0 (0)
CELTA DE VIGO 1 (0)

CD TENERIFE
Luis García; Aitor Nuñez (Ángel, 55’), Pablo Sicilia, Ezequiel Luna, Bellvis; Richi, Mikel; Juanlu Hens (Ricardo León, 80’), Alfaro; Omar Ramos & Dinei (Nino, 55’).

REAL CLUB CELTA DE VIGO
Yoel; Vasco Fernández, Noguerol, Túñez, Botelho; Bustos; Saulo, Trashorras (Michu, 53’), Joselu, Aarón (Dani Ábalo, 42’) & Saulo (Hugo Mallo, 70’).

REFEREE
Carlos Delgado Ferreiro, from the Basque region. Sent of with double yellow Vasco Fernández, (73’ y 77’),in both cases for a bad foul on Omar. Yellow for the visitor Trashorras (51’),

GOALS
0-1: (84’) Danilo, Straight kick at goal.

INCIDENTS
Game was part of the sixteenths round of the Copa SM El Rey, played in Heliodoro Rodríguez López Stadium. 13.328 spectators,in a chilly afternoon with light rain during some phases of the game.

2-2 draw

Saturdays game was a draw the first draw of the season. It could have been better as the team played exceptionally in the first 20 minutes. But it could have been worse as well, Malaga played hard and we were very innocent in our playing.
Game details include:

CD TENERIFE 2 (2)
MÁLAGA CF 2 (1)

CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Juanlu Hens, Manolo Martínez, Ezequiel Luna, Bellvis; Ricardo (Ángel, 78’), Román Martínez; Kome (Mikel, 65), Alfaro, Omar Ramos (Dinei, 86’) & Nino.

MÁLAGA CF
Munúa; Jesús Gámez, Stepanov, Weligton, Mtiliga; Xavi Torres, Benachour (Javi López, 46’); Obinna, Baha, Duda (Manu Torres, 87’) & Edinho (Toribio, 79’)

Referee
Eduardo Jesús Iturralde González, from the Basque lands. Yellow cards for CDT players Ricardo (21’), Bellvis (59’), Alfaro (62’) & Manolo Martínez (75’) and for Malaga players Weligton (13’), Benachour (22’), Stepanov (29’), Jesús Gámez (73’) & Baha (85’)

GOALS
1-0; (17’) Play by Omar Ramos on the left side, passing various defenders, passed to Román Martínez who pushed it in. 2-0: (26’) Play by Nino in a counter attack hit away by Munúa, collected by Kome and given to Alfaro who shot it in. 2-1: (28’) Edinho pushed at the goal for a save by Sergio, after a great kick by Benachour. 2-2: (76’) Javi López shot slowly and the ball went in the net.

INCIDENCIAS
11th round of the Liga BBVA, of the first Spanish league. Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez López. 17.761 spectators. Warm afternoon, with light breeze. The Tenerife Players had black armbands in memory of ex player Erasto León, recently passed away, a minutes silence was held.

The cup tie is tomorrow night at 7pm.
Celta de Vigo actually have part of their website in English. I was looking for their travel details and was surprised by this. It is something for CDT to aim for. I am amazed when I talk to visitors how many of them follow Tenerife from their home country.
They have a great photo of the stadium on their news site here









Training for the week includes:

Agenda from 09 al 15 de November 2009

Day	Time	Place	Activity
Monday	10:00	Heliodoro	Training
Monday	-	Heliodoro	Press conference with José Luis Oltra
Monday	-	Heliodoro	List of Players
Tuesday	19:00	Heliodoro	CD Tenerife-RC Celta
Wednesday	10:00	El Mundialito	Training
Thursday	-	-	Rest Day
Friday	10:00	El Mundialito	Training
Saturday	10:00	El Mundialito	Training
Sunday	-	-	Rest Day

I didn't forget

It wasn't that I forgot you on Saturday but the hotel has no internet connection so even if I had blogged I would have had no way to get it too you
I wanted to say thanks for all the birthday greetings I received on facebook.

We have no owners meal tonight as there was very little take up for it even with over 20 owner families arriving but I am sure we will do better next week. Tony and Rita, have already booked and I am sure more will join in.

It is really great when owners support the resort in this way. And it allows them to meet each other. The meals are somthing we have been running since autumn 2002. We have though about changing the menu this year so maybe we will for the new year. What do you think?

The sun is shining and it is still unseasonably warm.
Have a great day.

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.

Plainful loss

That Villareal is a good team was never in doubt but they have not played very well this season so far. I had hoped this would last until after we layed them but it was not to be. A 5-0 loss hurts. There will always be games like this and they are not a direct rival but still it hurts. The internet is full of negative comments. I think fans sometimes forget it is our role to support in the good times and the bad ones. I loathe when some Spanish fans wave white hankies to show their disaproval for the players. It is games like these when we will see who supports Tenerife and who supports Tenerife a team in the first division. Next Saturday we are at home at 5pm and will need all the support we can get against a direct rival. I hope the stadium will be busy but I am sure the fans who are there will make enough noise how ever many we are.
The game stats are as follows.

VILLARREAL CF 1 (1)
CD TENERIFE 0 (0)

VILLARREAL CF
Diego López; Javi Venta, Godín, Marcano, Capdevila; Cani, Bruno, Eguren, Pires (Escudero, 76'); Rossi (David Fuster, 69’) & Llorente (Jonathan Pereira, 64’).

CD TENERIFE
Aragoneses; Aitor Núñez (Dinei, 56’), Manolo Martínez, Sicilia, Bellvís; Juanlu, Román, Alfaro, Ricardo, Omar; (Saiza, 83’) & Nino.

REFEREE
Fernández Borbalán, Andaluz. Yellow card for Llorente.

GOALS
1-0: (15’) Llorente. 2-0: (47’) Pires. 3-0: (50’) Rossi. 4-0: (51’) Llorente. 5-0: (88‘) Cani.

INCIDENTS
Stadium El Madrigal. Ground in good condition. Warm afternoon. 8.000 Spectators.

Team interviews included:
Pablo Sicilia: “Now is not the moment to blame the defense, it is the moment to look forward, to make conclusions and correct errors. I don't believe the team was uninvolved, we always go out to fight, but somtimes your rival is better then you, as we saw in the second half. The wosrst was certainly the start of the second half”.

Juanlu: “In the second half we were not so good, but in the first half we deserved more. We got into the game and had chances. In the second half the goals came very quickly and we were left unable to react. They came back very strong”.

José Luis Oltra was sad for the loss suffered by the team. He lamented the good play of the players had not yet resulted in an away win. “It has been a punishment. Our rival today had the luck they have been missing up to now. We plyed well in the first half, controlling the game and we had chances. In the second half, in seven minutes, they scored three goals and the game was over. It was a pity, but we need to go on”.

When asked about the teams lack of away points, Oltra explained that “without doubt the home wins are great. Away we make a great showing but haven't yet converted that into points. We have received a lot of goals. I repeat there is nothing else but to go on”.

“In the first half we were the better team and had a lot of chances. Hoy nos medíamos ante un rival de mucho potencial, hecho para estar más arriba”, añadió.

“El equipo ha salido a competir y en el descanso hemos hablado de mejorar. We should count the first half and not the missed chances. The team went out to fight. The 2-0 came very quickly and this caused us a lot of damage. I had told the players we shouldn't receive a second goal”. He continued “This game is nothing like the game we lost in Vigo. The way we lost last Wednesday in the cup hurts me a lo more than this afternoon”.