Creemos - We believe

 Creemos is what the club president said this week when interviewed. We believe, the team can save itself. That has to start today with the game against Valladolid. The president himself has called for the fans to be outside the stadium to see the players arrive at 17.15. The fan clubs will be selling T-shirst with the word "Creemos" on them for the ammount of one Euro. The money raised will go to the fan clubs to help with decorations around the stadium for the next few home games.

 Ticket sales have been slow as the game which starts after the Tenerife game is the Classic Madrid - Barcelona. It is sad that people who call themselves fans want more to stay home and watch another team than their own team in its hour of need. The ticket offices will be open all day today if you still need to buy a ticket.

Round up

Round up for this week:

We have dates for the next two games. CD Tenerife is playing away on Tuesday against Sporting de Gijon on Tuesday at 19.00 and at home against Getafe on Sunday the 18th of april at 4pm.

Halcon Viajes have a package for the Sporting game leaving Tenerife South on Monday the 12th of April with the return being on Tuesday at about 22.30. The trip includes a bus from Oviedo to Gijon and a night in the Hotel Begoña Park, and the entrance to the game in el Molinon.

Real Valladolid, the next rival for CD Tenerife, are due to arrive on the island at 14,45 on Friday on a plane form Madrid. With them will be their president Carlos Suárez. The same day the team will train with their new trainer in the Ciudad Deportiva of CD Tenerife at 19:30. The purple players are staying in the Hotel Silken Atlántida, in the capital of Santa Cruz.

Carlos Velasco Carballo will be the referee for Saturday's game between CD Tenerife and Real Valladolid, A referee with whom we have had a fair amount of luck. Of the four game he has refereed for us two have been ins and the other two have been draws.

The club and the fan clubs will be handing out shirts like the ones above for fans who go to greet the team. The cost of the shirts is symbolic as it is 1 euro and the money raised will go towards providing colour in the stadium for home games. Fans who are outside the grounds at 17.15 can buy their shirts and greet the team as they arrive on the Tribuna side.

The Club president Miguel Concepcion stated in an interview this week that "we are in difficult times, and because of this we call for calm. In difficult moments you need to keep a cool head." He added" we want to keep the union between the club and the fans. The team is in good spirits preparing itself for the last eight games that we have to play. This Saturday is the first of the eight finals. Nothing is in our mind but a win against Valladolid and then the journey to Gijon a stadium historically lucky for us. And this is what we need to go adding to the points too. We have to reach the 43 points we need to save ourselves. The team is together and in great condition. The team believes. We all believe. This is my message for the press" added the maximum leader of the club.
"This project was formed to stay up, not to do so would be a failure" recognised Concepcion who stated, "I respect the opinions of others but this have been a four year plan and whatever happens it is a job which has satisfied a lot of fans. We have done our best with the possibilities we had."
”The club council feels if we go down we will try again next year to go back up. But right now there is no need to think about that. We are dependent on ourselves. Jose Luis Oltra will finish the season with us and for next year we need to see where we are to be able to make decisions."“Clemente is a great trainer but we need to think about  CD Tenerife. In our stadium we are difficult to beat.” considered Miguel Concepción when asked about the game this Saturday in Real Valladolid.

When asked about the CD Tenerife B team, the president said "we follow the training and play of all the lower teams. We will see if next year players for the B team can come up to lay in the first team. This is the joy of the youth sides."

Talking of the B team there is a rumour in the AS newspaper that Airam is going to play for Villareal B next season.

Valladolid v CD Tenerife

This was one of those games that will be remembered for a long time. CDT has never come back to a 3-3 draw from 3-0 in the history of the club. I will remember it for a long time as we were there.
We had the luck to stay in the hotel where the team were and I had the chance to get some great photos.
It was cold and if we were cold in hats and scarves I can't imagine how could it was in shorts on the pitch. 3-0 down after half time was a sad moment but from when Nino scored th e first goal the players gave their all in every way to try to come back and the result of not giving up was a draw. It could have been a win but a point away was well worth it.

REAL VALLADOLID 3 (2)
CD TENERIFE 3 (0)

REAL VALLADOLID
Villar; Barragán, Marcos, Baraja, Luis Prieto; Borja, Rubio, Nauzet (Font, 72’), Canobbio (Marquitos, 79’); Manucho (Medunjanin, 87’) & Costa.

CD TENERIFE
Aragoneses; Luna, Bellvís (Dinei, 81’), Sicilia, Manolo; Juanlu (Ángel, 58’), Omar (Ayoze, 66’), Ricardo, Mikel Alonso, Alfaro & Nino.

REFEREE
Ayza Gámez, from Valencia. sent off from our side Luna (91’), for a second yellow card. Yellow cards for locals Manucho y Marcos; and for CDT Ricardo y Bellvis.

GOALS
1-0: (27’) Diego Costa, alone in front of Aragoneses. 2-0: (34’) Canobbio, from a penalty, 3-0: (50’) Diego Costa, from a header. 3-1: (62’) Nino, alone in front of the goal. 3-2: (71‘) Ángel, after a save. 3-3: (85’) Luna, from a header.

INCIDENTS
Stadium José Zorrilla. Ground was in good condition. Very cold afternoon. 15.000 spectators. About 100 CDT fans in the stands.

First round game on La Sexta.

It was announced on the Zoneros website on Friday that the first game of the season, Zaragoza against Tenerife will be shown live on Saurday night at 9pm on La Sexta, an open Spanish Channel. This is a great start the the season and I am looking forward to it.
The club president stated last week that it had been impossible to organise a charter for this game so a lot of fans will not be going. The next away game is the Mallorca game which for many the flight will be too expensive but the 5th round is the Real Madrid game which is being sold by several travel agents, also as it is a cheap and easy flight a lot of people will be going on their own as well. Another easy game is the Valladolid game which you can take a flight to Madrid and drive or take the bus to Valladolid. We are going to the Real game and the Valladolid game and will keep looking for cheap flights for other games as they come up.

The club have now announced they have 13,200 season ticket holders, which is a record ammount of season tickets sold for CD Tenerife. I am sure they will get to the 17,000 they claim or as near to it as possible. Renewing season ticket holders have until the weekend of the first home game to pay for their renewal and this leaves another pay day before then. I am sure once the 1st-5th come we will see a scurry of renewals bring us up to the magic 17,000.