Two possible signings

Aitor Sanz stated the team needs to be more regular and not have the gaps it had at the beginning and end of last season.

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The errors of last season will be ironed out this time and the team look forward to being more consistent

 SERGIO MÉNDEZ
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Diego Ifrán could be the forward that Cevera/Alonso are looking for. The player from Uruguay played on loan last season for La Coruña after the winter break where he scored 4 goals in 11 games. The fans and team were happy with his performance. His agent says he also has offers from Betis & Valladolid

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Juanjo Expósito who is starting his second season with the club having joined last January. He stated how much he liked Barlovento, the atmosphere and the weather for pre-season tranining.

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CD Tenerife could today sign their third player. This could be Jacobo Sanz Ovejero. The keeper has played in La Liga for Numancia where he recied the second fewest goals. He also played for Valladolid, Real Jaen & Palencia. Most recently he played for PAOK  in the Greek league

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The B team plays Somozas

 CD Tenerife will be paid for the sales of Ayoze in the next few days or even hours  - Olaf Bonales

Foto La Opinion

http://www.laopinion.es/deportes/2014/06/10/olaf-bonales-anuncia-club-cobrara/546796.html

In a demanding league CD Tenerife managed to stay out of the relegation positions for 29 rounds

http://www.diariodeavisos.com/2014/06/campana-exigente/

Juanjo Lorenzo confirms the coming of Alfonso Serrano on twitter

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The B team drew Somozas a team from Santiago de Compostela. They play home first probably at 11am

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200 entrance tickets for the season ticket holders

Only 200 wntrance tickets will go on sale for this Saturdays game

http://www.diariodeavisos.com/2014/05/200-entradas-venta-este-martes/

Álvaro Cerveraadmitted that the gme against Girona was fairly bad.

http://www.radiomarcatenerife.com/new/2014/05/04/cervera-puede-que-no-estemos-tan-finos-porque-no-se-puede-estar-siempre-en-el-umbral/

cristo marrero stated that Las Palmas is obligated to win which eases the pressure against Tenerife

http://www.laopinion.es/deportes/2014/05/06/cristo-marrero-despeja-presion/540459.html

Pier is sure the team will win

http://www.laopinion.es/deportes/2014/05/06/pier-apuesta-2-siete-palmas/540455.html


Referee Jorge Figueroa Vázquez, from  Andalucia will ref the derby between UD Las Palmas & CD Tenerife in Gran Canaria.
http://eldia.es/deportes/2014-05-05/60-Figueroa-Vazquez-pitara-sabado.htm

Ayoze may not play the derby

 

There are several resaon for this second loss which include tiredness and then there was the referee

http://www.diariodeavisos.com/2014/05/cd-tenerife-0-girona-1/



Ayoze saw his fifth yellow card and may not play the derby

http://www.radiomarcatenerife.com/new/2014/05/04/ayoze-perez-ve-la-quinta-amarilla-y-podria-perderse-el-derbi/

CD Tenerife coach stated this wasn´t a good game. Girona put out 5 defenders and we couldn´t get through

http://www.laopinion.es/deportes/2014/05/05/alvaro-cervera-partido-igualado-decidio/540284.html

Girona managed three i,portant points against a CD Tenerife who moved down to being sixth in the table

http://eldia.es/deportes/2014-05-04/44-Girona-airea-comprometido-futuro-vencer-opaco-Tenerife.htm

Time to believe

It seems to me we are at a turning point. Last week there was a great furore with the question would the coach be sacked or not on Sunday. This week the press and the fans have been quieter. We seem to have reached the point for the final push. We  seem to have reached the point where every game is going to count.

CD Tenerife has Celta B, Athletico B and Marino de Luanco away. Of these Luanco and ATM B are safe and Celta is struggling. At home the team has to play Lugo, Oviedo and Alcala de Henares. Two direct rivals and a team who by the time they reach us should know if they are safe or not.

We are third with 57 points and the two teams behind us are Albacete with 55 points and Oviedo with 54. This is still a very close thing and one of these teams is not going to make the play off.

The biggest advantage CD Tenerife has is its fans. Week after week the stadium has filled with fans who want to support the team. And athough there have been moments where they were cross or fed up, never have they deserted, never have they given up.

But the moment has come for eveyone to give that last push. Remember the year we went up to La Liga, remember the game at home against Xerez. The fans have a power and a passion that can't be beaten. They can lift the team and carry them forward and now is the time to do this.



The fan clubs know the team needs a big push and comments this week have appeared including:

 Zoneros: The fans have never abandoned the club not even in the darkest moments, and now we have the chance to demonstrate one more, how great we are.

Instinto Blanquiazul:  We need to be 100% with the team during the game

Peña Barroso de Chio: Now more than ever we need to be there in the stadium everyone together so we can push Tenerife up to the second division

Irish clan: Its the moment to show that this team is a candidate to go up.

Frente Blanquiazul: to go up is possible but we need everyones commitment.


Armada Sur with their English speaking base talk of six matches and six finals, and want to support the blue and whites to the maximum


With all these calls I cant see how the fans wont be in the stadium on Sunday week pulling for the team, helping them to maintain the play off positions to the end of the season.


Aupa Tete

I am not sure why it is every time the game looks easy we struggle and when it is hard the team steps up their game. La Roda came to Tenerife with clear ideas, to defend and try for a point and they managed this very well. CD Tenerife had 15 corners and not a single ball went in but there will always be games like this.Looking forward during the playoffs every team will be looking to win so this sort of play shouldn't happen.

The fans were outstanding and yet again showed up in force to watch and support the team. Almost 11,400 were there to cheer yet again and push the team on.

A point was better than nothing although we are again third after Albacete managed a win in the afternoon and Castilla won at home which moved the gap back to 6 points. That said Lugo drew and Oviedo took a pasting in Gran Canaria.

Game notes

CD TENERIFE 0 (0)
LA RODA CF  0 (0)

 CD TENERIFE
 Razak; Cristóbal, Sicilia, Tarantino, Llorente; Chechu (Aridane, 71’), Marcos Rodríguez, Luismi Loro (Álvaro Zazo, 67’), Víctor Bravo (Ferrán Tacón, 53’); Kike López & Perona.

 LA RODA CF
 Bocanegra; Patuso, Héctor, Chupi, Pereira; Espínola, Jesús; Pablo (Pierrick, 80’), Ortiz (Polo, 89’), Berni; & Megías (Iker Torre, 84’).
 REFEREE
 Íñigo Azkue Otegi, fromthe Basque region. Yellow cards for local players Marcos Rodríguez (35’) & Kike López and for visitors Jesús (58’), Pablo (66’), Pereira (79’), Pierrick (88’) & Iker Torre (92’). 

GOALS
None

 INCIDENTS
The match was played in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López, with 11.360 spectators. The ground was in good condition and the morning was sunny. Pablo Sicilia, CD Tenerife, captain gave the La Roda captain a comemerative gift, as it was the first time they had visited CD Tenerife to play.

Agenda for the week 5 - 12 March 2012

Agenda for the week 5 - 12 March 2012

 

 

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
Firday	-	El Mundialito	Press conference with Andrés García Tébar
Saturday	10.00	Heliodoro	Training
Sunday	12.00	Heliodoro	CD Tenerife-La Roda CF

Six sessions before the battle of La Mancha

The players will train six times before they face Albacete Balompie. The blue and white squad will train twice on Wednesday

Agenda for the week 30 January to 5th of  February 2012

 

 

DAY	TIME	PLACE	ACTIVIT
Monday	10.30	El Mundialito	Rest day
Tuesday	-	-	Day off
Wednesday	10.00	El Mundialito	Training
Wednesday	17.00	El Mundialito	Training
Thursday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Friday	10.30	Heliodoro	Training
Friday	-	Heliodoro	Press Conference - Andrés García Tébar
Saturday	10.30	Heliodoro	Training
Sunday	12.00	Heliodoro	CD Tenerife-Albacete Balompié

Agenda for the week 16 - 23 January 2012

Agenda for the week 16 - 23 January 2012

 

 

DAY	TIME	PLACE	ACTIVTY
Monday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Tuesday	-	-	Day off
Wednesday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Wednesday	16.30	El Mundialito	Training
Thursday	10.30	Heliodoro	Training
Friday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Friday	-	El Mundialito	Press conference Antonio Calderón
Saturday	10.30	Heliodoro	Training
Saturday	-	Heliodoro	List of players
Sunday	12.00	Heliodoro	CD Tenerife-Sporting Gijón B

When a draw feels like we lost.

Funny day yesterday, on the back of a 0-4 win in Alcala de Henares 500 CD Tenerife fans journeyed to Gran Canaria to the town of Vecindario. One of the smallest teams in the 2B league they are on the east coast of the island. The ferry companies decided they couldn't delay the ships so 90% of the visitors went by plane. All day from where we sat in  the Comercial centre Atlantida we coud see fans arrive and spend their hard earned money in the little town. As the game time came closer the Tenerife fans walked together singing towards the grounds only to be met by jeers from UD Las Palmas supporters. Not sure why they were there if it wasn't to provoke.
The police were not to be seen but still the blue and white fans continued onto the football field.
There was no trouble at the grounds I saw, although I have seen some comments on twitter that the police felt the needed to create a path between the blue & whites and the yellow fans by hitting the Chicharreros with their batons.

The game started with the Tenerife fans in one corner together singing, a banner was produced by the Zoneros, one of the bigger fan groups saying "Pablo Sicilia was an outstanding Canarion" (From Gran Canaria not the Canaries) and there were around the edge of the corner represenative banners from thefan clubs; Armada Sur, Frente Blanquiazul, Irish Clan and Zoneros.

The game was hard fought with neither side having many shots at goal, when right at the end there was a foul against a blue and white player in the box and the linesman called penalty. A goal!!!! Perona scored but the euphoria was short lived as five minutes later from a corner Vecindario scored.
A point to the total and a journey home. The faces on the fans in the airport said it all, but those same loyal fans will be in the stands on Sunday supporting the side at 12.00 against Sporting B.
They sang yesterday as they often do:

     It is really easy to support a winning tean

being a CDT fans is better

It is a pleasure to be a CD Tenerife fan, it brings friednship, loyalty and a love of the game I would never have known without the team but it can also be hard. See you Sunday in the Heliodoro

Game notes

UD VECINDARIO  1 (0)
CD TENERIFE       1 (0) 


UD VECINDARIO
Santi Lampón; Simón, Roberto, Amado, Pollo; Badayco, Rubén Coméndez (Moisés, 80’), Poncho (Maikel, 75’), Yeray Ortega; Yeray López & Futre.

CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; David Medina, Llorente, Tarantino, Pablo Sicilia; Marcos, Kitoko, Chechu (Perona, 70’), Ferrán Tacón; Víctor Bravo (Zazo, 89’) & Kiko Ratón (Aridane, 60’).

REFEREE
Rubén Eiriz, from Galicia. Yellow cards for local players Simón, Moisés y Roberto; and for visitors Marcos, Víctor Bravo, Sicilia & Medina.

GOALS
0-1: (87’) Perona, from a penalty. 1-1: (93’) Aragoneses, in his own goal.

INCIDENTS
Played in the Municipal grounds in Vecindario. On Astroturf in good condition. On a warm afternoon. With 1.200 spectators of which aprox. 500 were visitors. The blue and white  president Miguel Concepcion was present at the game.

CD Tenerife 2- 2 Marino de Luanco

I have a very positive nature and am sure everything will come right soon but the final result yesterday was a great pity. CD Tenerife looked really good yesterday in the first half. They had chances and made the most of them. Not sure about the beginning of the second half, but the team is still third and going into the winter break in play off positions is a good thing.
The fans were very fed up with the final result and there was twice a call for the coach Calderon to go. In his interview afterwards he stated, "We worked hard to secure our position but it didn't work out". when asked about the fans he commented that, "I am pleased that the fans come week after week. I have the management support and consequently will go on training".
 The players are off now until after xmas and they then start to train for the game against Alcala de Henares on the  8th of January. It will be interesting to see if we have new players by then.


CD TENERIFE                      2 (2)
CLUB MARINO DE LUANCO 2 (0)
CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Cristóbal, Sergio Rodríguez (Jonay, 65’), Kitoko, Ayoze; Zazo, David Medina (Ferrán Tacón, 63’), Chechu Flores (Marcos, 63’), Víctor Bravo; Perona &  Kiko Ratón.
CLUB MARINO DE LUANCO
Rafa Ponzo; Luis Cuenca, Alex, José Ángel, Castaño; Guaya, Sergio Prendes, Queipo (Carnero, 73’), Villanueva (Arias, 70’); Pablo & Titi (Prieto, 91’).
REFEREE
Valentín Pizarro, from Madrid. Yellow cards for local player V. Bravo and visitors Queipo  Rafa Ponzo.
GOALS
1-0: (32’) Kiko Ratón, with a header. 2-0: (44’) Perona, after a kick away by the keeper 2-1: (51’) Pablo, with a short kick into the goal. 2-2: (78’) Arias, who put the ball in after he passed the keeper.
INCIDENTS
Played in the Heliodoro. With the grounds in good condition, on a sunny morning in front of 6.441 spectators. CD Tenerife gifted l Marino de Luanco memorial gift to celebrate their first visit here in the Heliodoro.

1000 apologies

I always liked the concept of 1000 apologies and right now it seems appropriate. This week has been chaotic and I haven´t managed to blog at all. After a period of negotiation we signed a rental contract with the club last week and are now renting the shop site they have underneath the club offices. We opened Monday  after two days sorting out the shop and on Sunday a visit to Gran Canaria to go to Primark. ( For home not for work).We are open Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 13.30 and 16.00 to 20.00, Saturday we are open all day until the weekend of the 6th and after that from 10.00 to 14.00.

I had picked last weekend to journey across the water as it was clear that the game in Oviedo wouldn't be televised, thinking it would be more or less quiet. You know what they say about the best laid plans!!!

The team had to lose a game at some point  and better now away against Oviedo who were destined to be strong even if they had a bad start than later when we have the run up to the end of the season. Listening on the radio they played well and were just unlucky with a great shot at goal. We are still fourth and the game against Marino del Luanco should be three points for us.

The sale of second round season tickets  seems to be going well and fans are coming through the shop looking for blue and white gifts for their loved ones.

The team break for the Holidays after the game and will be back after xmas. There is talk about a trip to Vecindario but I haven't yet seen anything confirmed. There seem to be various names in the pot for the  forward who might come and I will update the facebook page with the news articles as I read them.            

Have a great day and hope to see you in the stadium tomorrow.

Money trail

There has been a lot of talk on line this week about the clubs finances. The accounts for the season 10/11 were released and they make for sad reading. There is no question if we had stayed in La Liga we would have been better off. But things are what they are. Without doubt the team can not afford to stay too long in Segunda B.

Figures released for the last season have been compared with the previous years in the press and the figures here are from the Zonablanquiazul website.

Television

Television money was 14 million for the year in primera, 2,5 million last year and 70,000 this year for the season. There will be extra money should the club make the playoffs.

Season tickets

There was 6 million euros taken in season tickets in primera and 2,950,000€ last year. This years figures haven't been released but with nearly 5,000 less season ticket holders and a 30% reduction in cost it will be considerably less.

Stadium publicity

In primera was 1,1 million and segunda was 580,000€

The club has as an asset the land in Geneto which has been valued at 15.885.884 euros (not sure when) and the Cabildo has promised to buy this. They will be purchasing it but they have already given the club 4,2 million against the purchase which is what the club played the players with in June.

The debts total 38.269.956,45 euros, of which 21.476.935,52 need to be paid off before the 30 of June 2012 and the rest 16.793.020,93 is on longer term loans. In the short term loans there are 4,7 million which were due last June and have still not been replayed so perhaps there is room for manoeuvre.

Agenda for the week 28th November - 4th December 2011

Agenda for the week 28th November - 4th December  2011

DAY	TIME	PLACE	ACTIVITY
Monday	-	-	Day off
Tuesday	-	-	Day off
Wednesday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Wednesday	17.00	El Mundialito	Training
Tursday	10.30	Heliodoro	Training
Friday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Friday	-	El Mundialito	Press conference with Antonio Calderón
Saturday	10.30	Heliodoro	Training
Sunday	12.00	Heliodoro	CD Tenerife-Atlético de Madrid B

It's not great to be whistled at.

It is not unusual for me to blog two days in a row but I was interested in comments made by the players in the newspaper El Dia and wanted to translate them. 

In interviews after the game all three players interviewed commented that it was not great to be whistled at especially at home. 

The comments included:

Chechu - "We are pleased about the win, which is the most important thing but it isn't everything. When we reached the 2-0 unconsciously we moved back to hold the result and this is something we need to correct". He continued, " We need more control over the ball and if we manage this we will be able to make the most of our results and enjoy the games". He then commented that they need to keep working so they can, "play the whole 90 minutes as we did the first 45". When he was asked about the whistling in the stadium he answered; "The whistling makes me cross but that is how the fans show their unhappiness". He followed up by saying, "What we all want is to play well, and we go out to try to do this every week. The club has a lot of fans and the pressure is high but that pressure is also our advantage".  

Ferran Tacon - The author of the first goal talked about how the team needed to be more "stable". He then commented on how in the game against Rayo B they " always put  the same amount of effort but perhaps that was the only game where we played the same throughout". He then stated that, "It may well be nerves, we want to maintain the score. We played well in the first half and it was good to go ahead early and follow up with the second goal". 

David Medina - The central defender saw the difference in the first and second halves as "two games -  In the first half we were good, we managed to reach the goal area and score two goals, then there was the second half where we lost the ball and suffered". He finished, "We know what we are doing right and what is not so good and we hope to improve. There is still lots of league to play and with 28 points now we have room to manoeuvre".  

Agenda for the week 20 - 27 November 2011

Agenda for the week 20 - 27 November 2011

 

 

DAY	TIME	PLACE	ACTIVITY
Monday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Tuesday	-	-	Rest day
Wednesday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Thursday	10.30	Heliodoro	Training
Friday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Friday	-	El Mundialito	Press conference Antonio Calderón
Friday	-	El Mundialito	List of players
Saturday	08.00	-	Tenerife Sur-Santiago de Compostela (UX)
Saturday	-	-	Transfer from Santiago - Lugo
Saturday	-	-	Stay in Hotel Santiago
Saturday	Tarde	-	Training
Sunday	11.00	Angel Carro	CD Lugo-CD Tenerife
Sunday	-	-	Trasfer from Lugo-A Coruña
Sunday	17.40	-	A Coruña-Madrid
Sunday	19.50	-	Madrid-Tenerife Norte

Four points out of six

There has been talk in the last few weeks about how badly the team is playing. There is no doubt they do not have the elegance of teams like Aresnal or FC Barcelona but four points out of six evey 14 days is not to be dismissed. There is no doubt that the fans, the players and the club would prefer that the team won every game but this is not so easy. CD Tenerife has always struggled away. There was talk on the tenerife forum form Finn Cris that "The problem for me is that the middle guy in the upper midfield trio is almost wasted the way we play". And then about home games "the 'home fortress' aspect is even more significant this season as I image almost all other teams & players rarely get to play in front of close to 10.000 fans & play in a real stadium so they may well feel a bit intimidated out there giving CDT an even bigger advantage at home than normal". Both of these are valid points of view add to which I would say the travel is difficult especially this year where there is little gap between travel and playing. This works both ways and may well account partly for why we have done well at home.  I was calculating thare are 19 rounds at home and away. If we manage 4 points per fortnight this is 76 points a result which is not to be sneered at. 
Pedro Cordero has stated since the pre-season that he is looking for another forward and an attacking midfielder. Both of these if he finds tham should help the team especially towards the end of the season. It would be great to finish first but we need to bear in mind Lugo were first last season and didn't make the play offs. The group we are in seems to be the strongest which is not only an advantage now as we need to play well to reach the points we need but also we can't be matched against the teams in our group in the play off. 
Group 2 table

1	Mirandés	13	9	4	0	19	3	31
2	Real Unión	13	7	2	4	21	14	23
3	Bilbao Ath.	12	7	2	3	19	12	23
4	Amorebieta	12	6	4	2	16	9	22
5	Osasuna B	13	6	4	3	20	16	22

Group 3 table

1	At. Baleares	13	9	3	1	22	10	30
2	Hospitalet	13	9	1	3	17	10	28
3	Orihuela	13	6	4	3	18	11	22
4	Reus	13	6	4	3	19	14	22
5	Ontinyent	13	6	3	4	20	17	21

Group 4 table

1	Lucena	13	9	2	2	25	10	29
2	Betis B	13	9	2	2	27	16	29
3	B. Linense	13	9	1	3	25	15	28
4	Cádiz	13	7	4	2	23	11	25
5	Puertollano	13	7	3	3	23	15	24

Josmar has asked for a transfer, whether on loan or to change clubs he seems not to mind. I hope the player gets the chance to grow either here in Tenerife or perhaps a change of club on loan would be good experience.  And one of the other B team players hasn't been to training for a week as he claims he is depressed. I feel sorry for the B coach as it seems to have been an odd week.