Season starts

This is the big day, the start of the 10/11 season. We are playing away in the Montilivi stadium against Girona. They have refurbished one of the stands in the grounds and it looks great.

The whole squad is there for the weekend as they travel on Sunday afternoon by train to Alicante for the King's cup game on Wendesday evening against Elche.

The club had upgraded their website and I am not sure it I like it The lettering seems smaller. I expect it will just take some time to get used to. You can check it out here.

The Peña (fan club) Peña Salamanca celebrated 50th anniversary this week. They have an exibition of memorabilia on display in the halls of the Parque García Sanabria, in Santa Cruz.

Ruben Rosquete will be going to play in Real Murcia this season on loan. It had been decided by trainer Arconada that he needs more minutes playing time that he would have here in CD Tenerife so he has been sent on loan.



















The club have also given a professional contract to Josmar Zambrano. This is his first professional contract and was given after interest was expressed by FC Barcelona and Sevilla FC. The player wasn't taken to the second summer training this year and feeling among the fans was that the lad from Venezuela would be returned to the second team. In an interview on the 25/08 he stated that, "I hope to make the most of the chance I have been given and fight for a place in the first team. Although I am still a CD Tenerife B player I will be hoping for minutes in the first squad. I want to move forward little by little. It is my dream to play in the Heliodoro with the CD Tenerife shirt".  Photo © tenerifedeportivo.com

FC Barcelona 4 CD Tenerife 1 Game notes

The team can come home with their head held high. For 60 minutes they held Barcelona at bay and a draw looked possible. No one can say we gifted this league to Barcelona. The players gave their all for the 90 minutes they played. There just came a time where tiredness hit and Barcelona showed why they really are a world class team.
Tuesdays games mean Valencia will be qualified into third position if Mallorca lose tonight leaving them nothing to play for. Almeria's win means they are in principal safe hopefully meaning they will not play so hard on Saturday. And the Getafe - Sporting draw at least leaves Sporting in our sights.
Tonight we need Real Madrid Atletico Sevilla and Atletic to win to keep all our options open.


GAME NOTES

FC BARCELONA 4 (1)
CD TENERIFE 1 (1)

FC BARCELONA
Víctor Valdés; Alves, Maxwell, Puyol, Piqué (Pedro, 46’); Xavi, Keita, T.Yaya, Messi; Bojan (Henry, 80’) & Ibrahimovic (Busquets, 65’).

CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Luna, Héctor, Pablo Sicilia, Culebras; Manolo, Román (Omar, 72’), Juanlu, Mikel Alonso, Kome (Nino, 60’); & Alfaro (Ángel, 84’).

REFEREE
Delgado Ferreiro, from the Basque region. Yellow cards for visitors Pablo Sicilia, Alfaro & Héctor.

GOALS
1-0: (16’) Messi, from a pass by Ibrahimovic. 1-1: (39’) Román, from a pass by Kome. 2-1: (62’) Bojan, after a play by Alves. 3-1: (76‘) Pedro, with a centre from Messi. 4-1: (92’) Messi, on his own.

INCIDENTS
Played in the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona. Rainy night. The grass was in good condition. There were 40.000 spectators including approximately 300 from CD Tenerife.

Thoughts

Tenerife played on Sunday and lost. That is a how game went but it goes no where near describing the effort the players put into the game and the chances they had. The first 20 minutes of the game CD Tenerife dominated the play and had 3 shots at goal, unfortunately they didn't go in. Messi then proved why he was player of the year with a hat trick and additional goals, a suberb header from Puyol and a shot from our home grown Pedro finally knocked in as a home goal by Luna made the final result 0-5 by Barcelona. Nethertheless the CDT players tried their best and fought to the end. All the subs came on and tried hard including Dinei who just doesn't seem to have managed to adapt to Jose Luis Oltra's game. Talking of Dinei I have said before and no doubt will say again that I do not understand why fans would whistle and boo their own players.
The game had a bitter sweet feeling as some of the fans turned on others, shouting and abusing them. This doesn't make for a great atmosphere an is sad in itself. I have read on a couple of forums that no one should have clapped either Messi's third goal or the entrance of Pedro but can't see either myself. If Real Madrid fans can clap Ronaldino in their own stadium when he was a Barcelona player then surely CD Tenerife fans can clap Messi.



As to not supporting Pedro this is just silly. The boy is from here he grew up in Arico played for local team Raqui San Isidro and had the skill to play in FC Barcelona. He has proved this year to be one of the worlds most talented players. The only one to have scored in 6 championships in one year. If supporting him makes me a s*** fan then so be it.

Tenerife B continue to be out of he lst positions with a win against Vecindario and Airam has now scored 21 goals. It is worth bearing in mind his contract runs out in the Summer and I hope Santiago Llorente manages to get him to sign up again.

CD Tenerife 0 - FC Barcelona 5

CD TENERIFE 0 (0)
FC BARCELONA 5 (3)

CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragones; Juanlu (Culebras, 46’), Bellvis, Sicilia, Luna; Ricardo, Mikel Alonso, Ayoze (Dinei, 65’), Kome (Ángel, 85’); Alfaro & Nino.

FC BARCELONA
Víctor Valdés; Daniel Alves, Maxwell, Rafael Márquez, Carles Puyol (Milito, 85’); Xavi Hernández (Chygrynskiy, 88’), Andrés Iniesta (Pedro, 76’), Sergio Busquets; Messi, Bojan & Thierry Henry.

REFEREE
Pérez Lasa, From Guipúzcoa. Yellow card for local players Luna, Ayoze y Kome; and for visitors Márquez & Puyol.

GOALS
0-1: (35’) Messi, after a play form Bojan. 0-2: (44’) Header from Puyol. 0-3: (45’) Messi, aftr a play by Iniesta. 0-4: (75’) Messi, high ball. 0-5: (88’) Luna, in home goal after a play from Pedro.

INCIDENTS
Played in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium. Ground was in good condition. Warm evening. In front of 22.510 spectators.

Training for Sunday's game against Barcelona

CD Tenerife started preparation for Sundays game against FC Barcelona in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium at 20.00 on Wednesday. The Blanquiazules trained in the Mundialito training ground for one hour and 40 minutes after their day off on Tuesday.

The Island team completed their usual warm-up then did some phyisical exercises. After the trainer Jose Luis Oltra formed them into small groups and they played five minute games in four teams of five players

In the session were CD Tenerife B goalkeepers, Toño Ramírez y Luis Arellano and Manolo Martínez, Omar Ramos y Héctor Sánchez took part in the group.Marc Bertrán, though worked out on the side with injury specific exercises.

CD Tenerife's first team are training again today (Thursday) from 10am in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium.

It may or may not be worth bearing in mind that CD Tenerife has never won a game with referee Miguel Angel Perez Lasa, the referee for Sunday's game. With him CD Tenerife has had three losses and two draws.

Barcelona game tickets sold out

The tickets from the CD Tenerife game against FC Barcelona have sold out on the day of their release. It took just 90 minutes for the sales to be complete. Queues had formed in all three sales locations from early in the morning. The tickets cost
50€ in POPULAR -
90€ in HERRADURA
115€ in SAN SEBASTIAN
and
160€ in TRIBUNA
Inspite of the increase which the club plans to do for this game and the game against Real Madrid the tickets sold like hot cakes and are aparently being resold on the resale market for considerably more money. For those fans who were lucky enough to buy season tickets this increase makes the season ticket very good value.