Lucky Day

I have a really good feeling about today. This is going to be the day we go up!!!
We are going to watch the game in Santa Cruz in the main square Plaza de España.
Canal Canarias has an enormous screen (6*4 metres) on the Plaza and will have pre-show from 15.00 onwards. They will have information about the 2 Canarian games which are both today and interviews with ex-tenerife players. The game will be show live form Montlivi the Girona stadium. With replays of the other goles from the other games.

Sunday presuming we go up there will be a procession of the team in an open to bus from the top of the city down to the Plaza de España starting at 13.00 onwards.

Video from Armada Sur

I was checking out the internet looking for how ro get to the away game in Girona. As I was looking I found this video on the Armada Sur site (A south Tenerife fan club site).



This is a great view of the highlights of the game including the great goal from Alfaro.

Flights for the game on saturday seem to be about 230 euros for a one day fligh bus and entry. This is out of my budget so I guess we will go to Santa Cruz to watch the game.

What a game

This was really a game to have seeN. We arrived over 1 hour before the start and the stadium was already half full. There was hissing and booing as the Xerez fans came out to warm up and Ovations as the Tenerife players came on.

There was a great mosiac provided by the Caja Canarias which looked awesome in the stadium.

For both teams this was an important game. A draw would have given Xerez (Jerez)mathematical qualification and keep Tenerife in with a chance for going up. Oltra our trainer had said on Saturday "All we need to do is concentrate and win. Even if we don't win we depend on ourselves but a win is what we need."

The game started well with both teams playing their best. An early goal from Alfaro put Tenerife in the lead. But for Tenerife worst was to come. After 27 minutes the ref sent Ricardo off with a direct red card for a foul. Tenerife need to pull theseles together and play even better and tht is what they did. Until half time they held the ball and just got on with defending.

At half time there was "El Chut de tu Vida" an chance for a lucky few to score a goal from the half way line and win money from the BBA bank the main sponsor of the first and second division here. No one won but it passsed a few minutes.

At the begining of the second half Xerez had a few chances but fortunately there wasn't a goal. Nino sentenced the game in the 84th minute. The Tenerife team played like heroes and a team worthy of being in "La Liga"

Next weekend they play against Girona away and hopefully will be mathematicaly qualified to go up.

This was taken  after the game ended. The fans just stayed and stayed. The marked board has Tenerife first which is why there is so much fuss. The player giving up his shirt was Pablo Sicilia but he was not the only one last night.

Telling day

Today might be an important day for Tenerife even if they are not playing. Hercules play today and if they lose this would mean That Xerez are qualified and Tenerife are nearly qualified. With a 6 point lead against Hercles they are already nearly there but it would be great to finish the weekend mathematically qualified.
Have a great day

Tenerife V. Xerez

The game on Sunday is promising to be exciting. There are 600 tickets which Xerez have returned to the club. These will be sold to Club members on Sunday 2 hours before the game. Your share certificate will be required for the sale of the tickets.
This certificate also provides a hefty discount on the cost of a season ticket. One single share is 60,10 euros and one is enough for the discount. Last year a Herradura season ticket (behind the away goal) was 295 euros and with the members share discount was 210 euros.
The club is selling bottles of Cava with the club logo on them. You need to have a season ticket or tickets to the Tenerife -Alaves game. I have 3 tickets but am not planning to go to Santa Cruz. I can't justify just going to Santa Cruz for 3 bottles of Cava.
Caja Canarias have announced they will be paying for a Mosaic for sunday's game. I have never seen one here so this will be a great site to see. I hope to get some photos and share them on monday.

Have a great day and UPA TETE

We have tickets

With a lot of luck and Thomas waiting about 5 hours in total over the 2 days we have 3 tickets for Sundays game. There were queues everywhere. The tickets in Santa Cruz sold out in the morning except the Tribuna which are 37 euros a seat. Those sold out in the afternoon.

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In the south it was not clear that there would be tickets until gone 4pm Originally it had been announced that there would be no more than 4 tickets per person. At 4pm they then announced there would only be 2 tickets per person and if there were left overs you could queue again. He was very lucky and managed to get three so we can all go together. The seats are near each other but not too near so we will try to swap when we get there. Just to be going is the most special thing.

Tickets for this weeks game.

Yesterday the tickets went on sale in the South of Tenerife for this weeks game. I am not sure how many they had but they sold out within an hour. There were still a couple of hundred of people waiting outside at this point. After a lot of discussion the shop offered to try to get some more tickets for this afternoon.. You could leave your ID number and name and perhaps you will get the chance to buy 4 tickets this afternoon. We have number 59 and hope to get 4 tickets. To not get tickets would be really sad as I think this will be the weekend we get to go up to Primera.
There is a photo in the AS a sports paper with loads of people camped in tents outside the Stadium waiting to buy tickets.
We are going to buy season tickets next year. I can't cope with the worry of will we get a ticket or not.
Kome will be missing for the game at the weekend as he is going to play with his national team. This is a shame as he is a great asset to the team. We will have Alfaro though as he has not been called up for the under 21 european championship.
Have a great day and I will write and tell you if we get tickets or not.