Training before the Cartagena game

Here is a photo from the club where you can see the players training today before they play Cartagena tonight. They are training in the La Manga Club which has great sports facilities.
The game is at 8pm tonight in the Cartagonova stadium in Cartagena.
The palyers warmed up and then they moved the ball between them and practiced shots at goal. Hopefully we will have a few goals tonight.Then they stretched and went back to the hotel. Only Culebras was in the Gym.

The moving season ticket sales table is in la Palma today where people can renew their season ticket.

The good thing about pre-season is there are no points in play.

The good thing about pre-season is there are no points in play stated Nino on Sunday evening. The chance to try different things and to come into form with out the stress of every game counts. That said he followed up hoping they win the three games this week to give them confidence.

That was not to be at least for the first game in the Copa Puma against Elche. Tenerife lost 4-1 with goals from (41’) Santos, (47’) Saúl,(68’) Omar Ramos, (85’) Javi Lara and (89’) Perera. Although they played well especially in the first half the shots at goal were just that shots. There were about 3000 spectators there to watch the game even though it was raining.

On the plus side the club has announced they now have 11,000 paid season ticket holders for the coming season. As renewing season ticket holders have until the weekend of the first round to renew this seems a very positive sign. The club seems sure they will sell all 17,000 seats they have allocated for season tickets.

The club has edited a DVD of the highlights of last season which will go on sale for the 30th of August costing 2 euros with the purchase of any of the following newspapers. El Dia, Diario de Avisos or LA Opinion de Tenerife. The DVD will last approximately 1 hour

Lost to Real Sociedad

The game was in La Orotava in the North of the Island. I have hoped to go but it didn't work out that way. By all accounts the team played their best but still need time to come together as a team. Jose Luis Oltra stated after the game, "This was a preseason game we were not good but that is all it is not important. There are things to correct and a lot of our players are still out of shape. Real Sociedad played very seriously and we were unlucky with our chances."
The players are now in La Manga training and tonight they play against Elche CF this is not on the television but is being commentated by Cadena Sur if you want to listen to it on the radio in Spanish.

Tomorrow's game against Real Sociedad in the final of the Teide Trophy

After 2 training sessions yesterday (Friday) the team is preparing for tomorrows game against Real Sociedad at 8.30 pm in Estadio Los Cuartos in La Orotava. This is the final of the Trofeo Teide being played. This is by far their most difficult match so far. Real Sociedad are a Basque team in the second division and were in Primera until 2 seasons ago.
The team started training at 10 am and worked in groups of 3. The session was 80 minutes long and they practiced shots at goal. There will be another session tomorrow morning before the game an on Monday they are off to Murcia for their next leg of summer training.

Armada Sur membership & video from the marino game

Wednesday night before and after the Marino game the Armadad Sur fan club held their membership party in the Royal Oak 2 pub near the Marion Stadium. There members could pick up their membership card and this years T-Shirt.
Below are photos of the card and Chris the Club's president with this years T-shirt.

It is a great shirt with their name, the club's name and logo and the fan club's logo on the front and the dates of this years fixtures on the back. They are also selling the T-shirt on its own and if you want one you can contact Chris at www.armadasur.com

I also found this great video clip from the game on you tube. It was put up by the Zona Blanquiazul website for the Zoneros another fan club.

Román Martínez arriving today

Román Martínez an Español player will be arriving in Tenerife today to join CD Tenerife for this year on loan. There is apparently no clause in his contract to buy him if things go well as Español want him back at the end of the Season.
The midfield player played 32 games last season and scored 5 goals for Español. He will take his medical in the Clinica Parque this afternoon and join training tomorrow.

Kome has been called up to play for Cameroon on the 12th of August for a game in Austria. He talked about how happy he was that he managed to get through the first part of summer training without an injury unlike last year. He commented that he had been training on the left , the right and in the centre so he wasn't sure where he would be playing this year but confirmed he would play where the Mister put him.

This week there will be 8 training sessions the double training sessions being on Tuesday and Friday. This weeks friendly games are on Wednesday night against C D Marino and on Sunday against Real Sociedad in the north of the Island.

Yesterdays game against Santa Cruz de la Palma was cancelled as the fire on the Island of La Palma made it seem safer to do so.

The under-18's lost in the final of the Villa de Adeje Cup against Liverpool. The result was 3-0 to Liverpool. The competition was held in the Tenerife Top Training Centre, An awesome sports centre for athletes to train in. This year Manchester City visited for their winter training session and I am sure we will see more tams this winter as the new centre gets more well known.

First win of the season

Sorry if you were planning to warch the game tonight but I couldn't resist looking at yesterday result. A 0-3 win against Tenisca was a great start to summer training. Mikel Alonso scored the first goal and Nino the other 2. Jose Luis Oltra was pleased with the way they played and the result. Luna stated he still has a way to go with his phyisical fitness but he was pleased to play again. As he only started training on Thursday I guess it was not a surprise he was tired after the game.

It looks like Mikel Alonso's brother Xazi will be coming back to Spain so it will be interesting to watch them play against each other.
Gaizka Saizar is recovering form his injury and is expected to play again in 2 weeks.

There is still talk about N'Gal coming but Nástic have been aproached by various first division teams for him to play so we will need to wait and see. There is talk in the AS today about Román Martinez from Español being available on loan for next year. He stated he hoped he could come to Tenerife as he had been offered the chance to play on a regular basis.

Tenerife B should know in the next few days if they have a chance to play in Segunda B as the ecconomic situation of some of the other clubs should either be resolved or show up as impossible. One of the Gran Canaria teams is desperately looking for a loan to cover their debts as they couldn't raise the finance neede any other way.