Ricardo Leon - 150 league games

The game in El Toralín is presumed that it will be the moment that Ricardo León will have played 150 league games with the blue and white shirt of CD Tenerife. If trainer, Juan Carlos Mandía, decides that he will play and he manages to overcome his injuries the midfielder from the north will be the second highest player at the moment only beaten by keeper Sergio Aragoneses.
He is a player who came through the ranks of the junior teams with CD Tenerife, where he arrived from UD Orotava in 2003. it cost him effort and time to make a space in the professional side but since he started on the 28th of January 2006, he has converted into a important key player for every trainer who has passed through the club. One game after another, Ricardo León has won the hearts and minds of his homeland club. He is happy here and even had a chance last season to play in the maximum league in Spain's football, La Liga.
Against Huesca, (0-0), in El Alcoraz, in the present season he played 150 official games with the club as a blue and white player and now in his next game, Ricardo will reach the same number of official games in the league. The midfielder is the player with the second highest number of games played for the island club only higher than him is the goal keeper Sergio Aragoneses.
But this celebration which could happen in El Toralín, if trainer Juan Carlos Mandía decides that he should play, comes at a particularly bad time for the island club. A bittersweet moment. An unjust loss against Albacete Balompié (0-1) Placed the team once more in the last position in the Liga Adelante. The team does have one game in hand which it will play on the 26th of January in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium, against Granada CF.
Ricardo León, together with the rest of his companions, needs to face one of the most important trials of his career. The next game is against SD Ponferradina. The blue and white players have very clear that they need to double and redouble their efforts to start the climb up the classification table, to reach safety in the centre of the table.

 

Season	Games	League
05/06	17	Second Division
06/07	30	Second Division
07/08	21	Second Division
08/09	35	Second Division
09/10	29	First Division
10/11	17	Second Division