Plans for next season

Alvaro Cervera and Serrano are now working on the plan for the 14/15 season

Foto DA

http://www.diariodeavisos.com/2014/06/cervera-serrano-ya-trazan-tenerife-2014-2015/

Ex Sports director  Santiago Llorente says Serrano works well

http://www.laopinion.es/deportes/2014/06/11/llorente-avala-serrano/547003.html

Chechu calls to be treated with the same respect he has always treated the club

http://www.radiomarcatenerife.com/new/2014/06/10/chechu-en-radio-marca-quiero-que-me-traten-con-el-mismo-respeto-con-el-que-he-tratado-yo-a-este-club/

Bruno González says he wants to improve so is moving on although he talked about how he would like to pla For CDT sometíme in the future

http://eldia.es/2014-06-10/deportes/deportes1.htm

Santiago Llorente let go today.

Miguel Concepción, president of CD Tenerife announced today, Monday, that the club had reached an agreement with Santiago Llorente to terminate his contract that associated him with the blue and white team. He thanked Santiago Llorente for all the sporting success he had with the team and for all the hard work and effort he had dedicated to the club.

Santiago Llorente landed on the island in 2008 to initiate what was his third stage here in the club. Amongst his great successes here is the ascension to La Liga with José Luis Oltra as trainer. Llorente also worked for the blue and white club between 1989 & 1995 and 1998 & 2000.

It was Javier Pérez who first had the confidence to bring him here and ascend to the maximum category. CD Tenerife lived with Santiago Llorente as technical director some of the clubs most historic moments such as the classification for the UEFA Cup, and to find player of the category of
Juan Antonio Pizzi, Mata, Dertycia, Fernando Redondo, etc.

As well as CD Tenerife, Santiago Llorente has been technical director in clubs such as Real Oviedo, Real Valladolid, Real Jaén & Getafe. His second stage in the club started in 1998. His attachment lasted two years, after the club went down to the Second Division, the director from Valladolid left the club again.
Llorente admitted “this is a very bitter moment for me and I need to assume it. These situations happen in football. When the results don't come projects and plans seem absurd”.
Llorente continued by explaining. “sadly this season the results have been negative and we need to accept the position in the classification table. Football is a game and I leave with work unfinished. I understand the club's decision and I have always managed to get by in difficult situations including ones as difficult as this”.

He also, wanted to “Thanks the president and the council for all the confidence they gave me, I have always been free to work here, happily and I want to thank all the people who worked with me, for their collaboration, their loyalty and their solidarity”.

He finished “ I hope that 2011 will be an important year and that CD Tenerife will celebrate the best results”.

Interview with Santiago Llorente

Taken from an interview in the El Diá newspaper.

Santiago Llorente doesn't hide the pride he feels for the team he has managed to arrange this season. But prudence is always a good thing. He knows that is CD Tenerife doesn't manage to go up this season all his effort will have been for nothing. For this reason he makes clear where his responsibility ends. His loyalty to the players and the training team -as upto now- is total.But he rienids that once the league starts it is them who have to achive the goals and only if they work hard will he have achieved his aims. But his job is not yet finished this year and he is out there looking for two more players; a central defender and a forward. This way Arconada will have two players for each position. That will fulfill the objectives he and the club set in May. He has the players in mind but as always with Santiago he admits nothing. But his words seem to imply that there will be another reason for the fans to be excited this season.

"What feeling did the 0-4 win against Marino leave you with last Friday?"
"This was the first game and I think the team showed really positive signs. It seems to us that they have a great offensive line and will be able to do great things. If as well as that we can maintain order in all lines and play together I am sure the team will do great things. We still have a way to go but the work don't until now is good. The work is a team effort. It isn't just me. The trainer and the technical team are really involved as well. We all want to have the squad ready as soon as possible for the start of the season. ".

"Is this a better squad then last year?"
"No. I think they are different. Last years lads were good too. They didn't deserve the sorrow of going down.If you want me to compare then all I can say if they are different. The players have other styles and I hope they will bring us joy.But if we concentrate on the effort made to finish the team early then you have to agree we have done more this year. We work within the dynamics of the sport and the desires of the club. Every year we try to find the best ne plaayers we can and form a good squad as well as we are able within our budget. I want to restate last years team was good and they didn't deserve the result achieved at the end of the year. This years look good too and their skills show they have the possibility to go for the objectives we have laid out for them".
Listening to you talk it seems you have no worries about any player leaving this summer...
Not at all. I don't think this will happen.

Return of a CD Tenerife player

The first CD Tenerife signing for the season 10/11 is now on the Island. Antonio Hidalgo landed at Los Rodeos airport at mid day on Sunday on a plane form Barcelona. He was accompanied by his agent and the team sports director Santiago Llorente was at the airport to meet him.
Antonio Hidalgo, who player last season for Albacete Balompié, will be taking his medical checks in the Clínica Parque on Monday and will be presented in the press room at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López in the next few days.



Antonio Hidalgo Morilla was born in Granollers and grew up training for FC Barcelona. This offensive midfielder who is now 31 years old passed many of his years as a professional footballer here on the island.

In the summer of 2000 after long conversations the present sports director, Santiago Llorente, managed to convince Barcelona that the player should come on loan. He was very sucessful here and at the end of the 00/01 season the team ascended to the first division.

Antonio debuted in the first and second division with CD Tenerife. He played more than 100 games for the club last time around and was also captain.In the last of his 5 seasons with the club he started to score more goals (5 goals). After his contract ended he went to play for Malaga in the first division. He playerd there for 3 years scoring 28 goals in league games. Finishing his final year there with a new ascension to the first division

In the season 08/09 he took part in another ascension to the first division, in this case with Real Zaragoza, although he oly played the first half of the season. In the sesond half he played for Osasuna on loan,and they too went up to the Liga BBVA. After he had finished his contract with Zaragoza, Hidalgo acepted a contract with Albacete Balompié. Here the midfielder was decisive in their salvation in the 9/10 season scoring nine goals most of which were decisive. Including three in the last two games in the league against Girona & Cartagena. Inspite of the teams desire to renew Hidalgo had decided the time had come for a change.

Many teams had approached him to come a play for them but after he knew that CD Tenerife was interested in him that was that. The player was in the Montilivi stadium on the 13th of June 2009 for the game against Girona and saw the team who made his career return to the first division. Now he is back with " maximium faith" and with more experience to play for the club where he played most of the profesional games in his career. With 300 league games and 45 goals a player who wants to help CD Tenerife will be sure to be greeat.
Welcome back.

Presentation

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Gonzalo Arconada was officially presented Tuesday as the new trainer for Club Deportivo Tenerife. This act took place in the Press zone of the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium and also present from the club were CD Tenerife president, Miguel Concepción; and Sports director, Santiago Llorente. Presented with Gonzalo Arconada was the second coach , José Ramón Eizmendi (an ex CD Tenerife player) and physical trainer Sergi Pérez. Both of these men arrived with Gonzalo Arconada, having worked with him in Numancia.

Miguel Concepción was the first to speak welcoming Gonzalo Arconada and his team.
“Arconada”, he described his ample experience as a trainer, both in Numancia and in other clubs including Almería and Real Sociedad. He stated that Arconada had managed to take Numancia up to the first division. That he fits the criteria the club was looking for in a trainer and this was why the club had decided he would be our best option for this season."

He then commented further on next season saying, "The presentation of our new trainer starts the beginning of the project 2010-2011, we hope that the fans will start to believe in the club again and that they will see that the club and the players will fight to go back to the first division. I guarantee we will have a competitive team and our objective will be to be in the highest ranking from the beginning."
To conclude the President from La Palma stated " we now have a competent trainer and only need the sports director to fill team with the players we are missing. I hope this will be as soon as possible and before pre-season training starts. I hope the fans will show confidence in the institution and continue to support the team. We are sure to make them happy and be a winning team."

Arconada continued to talk after the blue and white president. The points he covered include

Thanks.- “In the first instance I wish to thank the club for the interest they have shown in me. And for the support I have received on behalf of the city and the fans. I hope to respond to all this confidence you have in me."

Reasons for signing.- “CD Tenerife is an important club in professional football in Spain. The offer fills me with pride and satisfaction that I was chose to lead this new drive to take the team back to the fist division as soon as possible. The agreement was quick on both sides.”

Aims.- “I take this quest without any complexes. We are all winners and should be very ambitious because of this our aim should be to go back to the first division. We shouldn't be afraid to talk of this aim. What we need to do first is make the team competitive. We don't need to speak of what will happen in June only concentrate in the day by day work which will make the final result we need. There is a long path to follow and it will have good moments and bad ones. We need to avoid falling into states of euphoria or depression. We need to have confidence and perseverance in our job.”

Nino.- “He is a great footballer, very important and his staying is fundamental for the club. He can score many goals and good players are always highly valued in a good squad. He will be an important part of the team.”

Marc Bertrán.- “We are counting on all our players who are under contract. Always some names will be more important than others and we believe those players will be important players in the team next year.”

Player signings.- “I will be talking to Santiago Llorente about the players need for the team. We have similar opinions in the talks so far.It is important that the club knows the sort of player I am looking for but I have every confidence that the knowledge and experience Santiago Llorente brings to the job will prove successful when the team is formed.”

Ideal team.- “We need to make a competitive team with winners who will inspire the fans and can add points both away and in the Heliodoro. I am sure that at home with the support of the fans we will continue to be a strong team and I hope that we will have the same fortress as two seasons ago which would be an enormous factor in ascending the team to the first division.”

Philosophy of the game.- “I like to see a team who plays the ball, who have control of the game and we will be looking for players who have those skills. We need to build a team who are competitive and intense. There needs to be a balance between aggressive play and at the same time good ball skills to reach the final objective scoring goals. The aim of ball possession is the medium to score gaols it is not an aim on its own. Although if you have the ball your opponents cant run with it and score gaols against you.”

Message to the fans.- “This level is very complicated, as every year. The message we need to transmit to the fans is confidence and from the beginning we need your help without fail. We need you to believe in us because we will work hard ourselves. We need you to have faith and we will try that you do not feel betrayed at any moment for the level of play and the competivity the team will show.”.


Lastly Santiago Llorente spoke to clear up various items. When asked about Nino and Marc Bertran he declared there had been some interest in various players but that the clubs idea was that the players under contract stayed with the team.

He then added that Gonzalo Arconada had signed with CD Tenerife for one season but if all was well he couldn't see any problem in continuing the relationship. If not then their paths will follow other routes. "From the beginning the both sides understand what we are doing and I am sure that our relationship will continue for many seasons." he finished.

Gonzalo Arconada with second coach , José Ramón Eizmendi (an ex CD Tenerife player) Miguel Concepción and physical trainer Sergi Pérez on the field in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium.

Miguel Concepción explains on Radio Nacional

Miguel Concepción in an interview on Radio Nacional Saturday the 29/05 talked about different themes including the project for the coming season and the feelings after the relegation.

"One needs to look to take the club back to the standard of the fans which is a standard of the first division." stated the maximum authority for the club in response to a question asked by interviewer Domingo Álvarez." We need to look to the future. To work together to place CD Tenerife back where it belongs in the first division. 
When asked about the player Nino he recollected that "he still has a contract with the team and that he will continue playing. I would like him to finish his career here on the island. Marc Bertran also has a contract with us."
I am pleased with the way the team fought throughout the season. But as we didn't win the last two games we are back in the second division." he commented when asked to rate the previous year. "We should be happy with the last season. There were mistakes made and we should learn form them so they are not repeated. Now we need to construct a project to take us into the top positions of the second league." 

Miguel Concepción honoured trainer Jose Luis Oltra saying "Oltra came to us as a trainer we had looked for and he did a great job. He took us to the first division but he couldn't manage to keep us there. With that here in CD Tenerife it was decided the cycle was over. Had he managed to keep the team up then there would have been the option to negotiate a further contract. But our return to the second division made it seem pernicious  his continuity in the club. That said Oltra will always be welcome here.
Resuming his time as president he remembered " the season 2005/2006 was very difficult when I took over the presidency in the club although we managed to save the team and remain in the second division.We then consolidated the following two seasons we renewed the squad and then last year we managed to take the team up to the first division."
When asked if he wanted to send a message to the club and the fans the president said " We need to stick together, to have unity between the club, the fans and the press. I am calling for an effort between us all to return to the maximum football division."
When asked about the immediate future of the club Miguel Concepcion signaled that "we are starting a new project, with many new faces, as much in the technical team as in the players squad. I would like the new trainer here as soon as possible as this will help dissipate any doubts the fans and press have. But many of the trainers are still competing and some are not working. We are having discussions and till now nothing is decided." 
He followed by saying "I have complete confidence in the sports director Santiago Llorente. He has done a good job." He was then asked about the statement made last week that he might retire from being president explaining "I took the position for five years and as many know I do not stop until I have achieved my objectives. At no time will I abandon the club. In February there will be the possibility of elections and the council can be renewed. If there is a group who can show they will continue our lines in both the sporting and the economic areas, then I will be prepared to resign. But I will never turn my back on CD Tenerife."
He finished "We have all suffered and cried about the relegation of the team. We are going to try again. Together we can get there. We should have a team who are competitive and steady. And I call for the fans to keep coming to the stadium."

Press conference with Santiago Llorente

This morning after the last training session of the season a press conference was given by Santiago Llorente:
His statements included the following phrases:
The team were irregular and lacked a certain element of luck. I am finally pleased with their work although the descending a division leaves a bitter taste.
Economic and sports need of the club need to go together. I think the level of this years players should have allowed us to remain in Primera. It wasn't achieved but would have been deserved. We were missing away points and more continuity.
I have never felt questioned by the president.
Now we need to think about the new season. Our objective is to build a team which can aspire to returning to the first division. We are now trying to form this team. Our objective is to fight to get in the first places in the classification.
After three years Jose Luis Oltra will stop training the team. He has gifted us some great moments of football. Last year we enjoyed more then anything the way the team played. All we should do is thank him for a great job and wish him luck. Football is a day by day option so why didn't we therefore renew his contract? We analised the situation. Cycles are not eternal and we concluded that to end this cycle was the best for everyone. We were always pleased with the work of Jose Luis Oltra. We always supported him with our maximum effort.We never had doubts and believed in his work.

We haven't decided on the style of trainer yet. We hope to get the best trainer we can. We know how important this figure is and we are going to make the maximum effort to find this man. We are working on this. I would like to tell you who this man is but I am not sure if it will be this week or next week. We are looking for a trainer with Oltra's style. It is important to continue with the same ideas.

There have been complaints about my not finding players in the winter market. I was looking to find players in the break. We tried to find players at this time. We were looking for a specific style of player who would not just be an in fill but someone who could be part of the future of the team. This is a difficult market and there are few players available. we could not find a suitable player who fit our criteria and therefore we bought no one.

The sadness of the CD Tenerife B relegation is different. But that said the other teams are doing a great job.

When asked about the possibilities of Nino and Marc Bertran leaving he said, "Nino and Bertran are both players with contracts. They are two important players for the team. The aim is to extend their contracts. In any case probably there will be interest form other teams. The club will analise any offers but if there is nothing interesting then the club aims to keep both players.
"Ayoze's contract ended and he exercised his right to go to another club. He had every right to do what he did and we have to respect that.. I don't want to get into further analysis about this."he explained when he was asked about the player form Puerto de la Cruz leaving.
He continued, "The team will carry on next year with a good base of players. The ones who will continue are Luis Garcia, Aragoneses, Marc Bertrán, Aitor Núñez, Sicilia, Luna, Bellvís, Ricardo, Mikel Alonso, Kome, Juanlu, Nino y Omar Ramos. Those whose contract ends and will not continue are Culebras, Manolo, Richi, Ayoze y Saizar. Those whose contract ends and we hope will continue are Héctor y Ángel. The three players on loan Román, Dinei y Alfaro will go back to their clubs and Iriome will return from being on loan in Huesca" he finished.

Final training session of the season

The first team of Club Deportivo Tenerife will take their last training session of the season on Tuesday morning at 10 am in the Complejo Federativo Juan Padrón Morales also know as the Mundalito.






At the end of this (about 11.30) the team Sports Director, Santiago Llorente, will offer an informative talk infornt of the media present in the press room of the Mundialito training ground.





The players for their part will start their holidays after the training session.


There seems to be a feeling on several CDT forums that the something important will be announced.


Also in the news is a comment from Vitolo a Tenerife footballer now playing in Greece for Paok. The team has come third this year and has the right to the play offs for Champions League. Inspite of this Vitolo says he  " still have the doors open for Tenerife. This team gave me everything and if at a given time I thought I could help them I would come home even in the second division." Vitolo leaves the chance to come back to Tenerife because of the enormous affection he feels for the club from his home. He and his family are all season ticket holders in the club. He finished "perhaps for other teams I wouldn't be available but with CD Tenerife we could talk and come to a satisfactory agreement."

Players pages

I though I would tell you all about the websites players have:
Juan Lu Hens has this one: link
Alfaro too: link
and the latest to have been bought to my attention is Mikel's: link

There has been talk again in the papers about if the club will buy somone during the winter break. Santiago Llorente says he will go on looking until the last moment and the president of the club says he will find the money if the Sports Director finds a player the club needs. This leaves everthing in the air but time is running out. We didn't actually sign Mikel Alonso last year until the 28th of January.

Tickets for the Zaragoza game go on sale from this morning at 10 am and will be on sale in the stadium, in Playa de las America and in Puerto de la cruz.

Gaizka Saizar rumor says will go to a second division club, favourite to the press seems to be Cadiz. The club website makes no comment, except to have a quote form the player saying "I am finding every training session better. I feel a need to play more to help my recuperation. I would prefer to play here but it is clear the situation here is complicated."

An interesting statistic is that in the 12 seasons that we played in the first division in half we scored more points in the second half of the season then the first. This may serve as encouragement as we begin the second half of this season at the weekend

The Spanish football federation would like to take on of the games each week and play it on a Monday and on of the second division games to be played in a Friday. They hope to have the clubs approve this before the end of the season so we may well be going to Santa Cruz on a Monday evening instead of a Saturady or Sunday. Teams in Europe will not play on Monday so it will be the little teams. It may at least mean that we move away from 4pm on Sunday.

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.

Training started.

The team is training at the CIAT de Tíncer ground today.

In interviews yesterday Aitor Núñez stated that he didn't hesitate to sign for CD Tenerife as it is a historic club and that he was proud and happy for the chance to play in the first division.

Hector Sanchez said that he was pleased to be fit to be able to play for the team and that their abject was to stay in the first division.

Santiago Llorente when interviewed responded that the club was working as hard as possible to give the team the best chances this year. Of the players he talked that they were tanned, their weight seemed good ( ever a worry with holidays) and that they seemed happy and eager to train.
When asked about future signings he hoped that we will hear about Eziquel Luna within the next 72 hours and then explained that although the club would like to have the new players as early as possible the market this year was very difficult and nothing seemed to be moving. His dream is to find the best players as soon as possible.

We are going to reinforce all the lines.

"We are going to reinforce all the lines" said Santiago Llorente this week. With the exception of the goal Keeper the club C D Tenerife has announced that it will be contracting more players. With the contract renewal of Pablo Sicilia, Aragoneses and now Mikel Alonso the club has now move again to talks with Tiro Federal to see if there is a way for Luna to return next season. The Manager stated " we are not in a panic as we have a good base to work from, and with the present team deserve to be in the first division."



The club Website had more the 170,000 visits in June up 30,00 from their previous record in April 2009 of 136.899. This is an enormous increase and show how many people are interested in the club from all over the place. I have to say I check back most days as this is the location of most of my information and photos.



The mobile season ticket stand is on its way south next week so if you want to renew your season ticket there will be a desk in the Centro de Bricolaje y Ferretería Chafiras in Las Chafiras where you can collect your season ticket or pay to renew. From monday 20th July to the 1st of August. Opening times are Monday to Saturday from 11.00 a 15.00 and from 17.00 a 20.00 horas. The Club has announced that after 10 days sales 8,000 season tickets have been paid for including new ones and renewals.