In advance of Sunday's game

Ricardo León, who on Sunday could play his 150th league game for the blue and white colours of C D Tenerife, was the player who was interviewed in the press room of the El Mundialito. The midfielder talked about the crisis of results that the team are living with and the need to reactivate the team as soon as possible.
That said, the local player was asked to start with about the state of his health as he has been having problems with his ankle due to a bash he had received last Sunday. “It is curing well and I hope to be able to train with the rest of the squad soon”, said Ricardo.
The northerner talked about the bad moment that the players of CD Tenerife are suffering: “All of the games left are important. We have to do as much as we can to win as many games as possible. There is a hard stretch but we are going to make this work. It really hurts the way we are right now. We are going to give everything to get there. We need to go game by game. If in Ponferrada we are capable of winning, things will look different. I know the group is capable of recovery. The group works well all week but we get to the game and things don't go well”.
“we all need to give more and I am the first down this path. We are to the death with this trainer. There is nothing we could blame him for. The team makes mistakes, it is the players fault”, he added.
When asked about this weekend, Ricardo commented that “Ponferradina is strong at home. They are going to push hard. But we have chances to win”.
Josmar Zambrano was also interviewed on Wednesday in the press room. The young forward spoke after his return from Venezuela: “I am glad to be back here and I hope to be able to help the team, to make the most of the chances that the coach gives me. I know that I need to work really hard. I always train hard, waiting the chances that might happen to add my grain of sand”.
When asked about the bad moment the first team is having, Zambrano told that “the situation is complicated, but here there is a good group, a great team and we are going to rise above the bottom of the table. Lets see if we can earn the three points this Sunday”.

CD Tenerife has only played once against SD Ponferradina in the community of Leon. This was on the 2nd of December in 2006 and the game finished 1-0. The consequence of that result was the then trainer Bernt Krauss being sacked as coach of the blue and white team.
The visiting team were made up of the following players: Marc Bertrán, Culebras, Manuel (Pablo Sicilia, 58’), Clavero; San Martín, Oscar Pérez, Sergio Torres (Juan Ramón, 58’), Ayoze; Cristo (Ángel, 65’) & Frankowski. The 1-0 was scored by Fran, with a straight shot, in the first time (minute 38).
It was a sad day for the island players as Manuel Castiñeiras father died as a consequence of a heart attack that he suffered in the stand during the game.