Last session of the year

Today the last session of 2009 Jose Luis Oltra will decide which players he is taking to Santander with him. The players will be travelling tomorrow so I guess there will be no late party for them tonight. We wish them all a Happy New Year and send thanks for the joy they have bought us all this year. And the wish that next year they will bring us as much joy by working for us to stay in the First Division.

Yesterday Míkel Alonso was interviewed by the press. His comments included the thought that the players know the need to gain 3 points in Santander. " At home the results are good but we still need to work on the away points. It would be a good game to have the 3 points to bring home."
He continued that they have a good chance against Racing, that they are going to Santander with the idea of working hard and bring home those magical 3 points. He commented that there have been other games where they were not bad but just didn't have that special something to win.
His last comments were about the style of play in CD Tenerife, " We have a style and work on this every day. This team has real football skills and with them have managed so far to keep us out of the last three teams who are going down to the second division"


His companion Marc Bertran was also interviewed in the press area in the Mundialito training ground,where he talked about his injury. “I feel better, but I am still missing the rhythm which comes from training every day. I can't say when I will start to play for the team again, this is the most difficult time of my recuperation”.

“I need to insist it is not good to fix a date for my coming back to play”, the Catalan player continued, he followed this thought by saying “I am with the team, but little by little”.

Bertran, lastly, indicated that “We need to improve the away points. Let's see if we can do this soon”, and when asked about the year as a whole he said, “It has been a great 2009 in every aspect. In total a special year a year to remember even if on a personal level there is that but from my accident in Real Madrid.

Back to work

The team started back at work yesterday Tuesday with a training session in the Mundalito training ground of 90 minutes. They started at 10am and after the habitual warm up the trained with the ball as well as possession exercises.
Missing from the session was Hector who is with his family in Furteventura. Omar Ramos y Manolo Martínez exercised separately but Dinei and Toño Ramírez took part in the main training session.

José Luis Oltra has for today Wednesday two sessions planned both in the Mundalito, the first at 10.00 and the second at 16:30.

New Years wish

Miguel Concepción expressed his wish for 2010 as the need for CD Tenerife to stay in the first division. In an interview on Monday to Radio El Dia he took the time to describe the state of events in the club.
" If you look at the balance of the year the highlight has been our return to the first division. I never expected the support from the fans this was unbeliveable. I have constantly been overwhelmed although I have tried to keep this under control."
When asked about the future he stated he had confidence in the team, That CD Tenerife had good players even with those injured, the team was playing well. When he was asked about the posibility of signing more players in the winter he commented that there were player in the clubs ecconomic possibilities. In relation with the outstanding debts he mentioned the club has managed to reduce the debt by 50 %, that the lubs accounts were being managed efficiently.
His last comments were for Hector trnasmiting the clubs condolences and support to the player and his family.

Possible signings

There is talk on the Sport's Blanquiazul website that Iriome may be coming back to play for CD Tenerife. The winger has spent the last 5 months in Huesca playing for the team there. Huesca are in the second division and 14th right now. Iriome has played in 14 games starting in 9 and being bought on as a substitute in 5 more. He has a total of 746 minutes played 1 yellow card and 1 goal.


Anopther rumor is Milan Stepanov from Serbia. The player is a Central and is at present registered with Oporto and on loan to Malaga CF. He is 26 years old and started out playing evey game for Malaga but injury and lack of confidence by the trainer has left him on the bench. He has played in 4 games starting in all 4 of them with a total of 315 minutes played and 3 yellow cards

Omar Ramos in an interview on the UEFA website

Omar Ramos a star in CD Tenerife's team this year has an article in the UEFA website. Here
The article is in Spanish and although I have tried to find it on the English site it doesn't seem to have been translated.
The winger has created interest this year especially with the Spanish federation under 21's who called him up to play for them.
The leader in the article states "One of the most promising players in the first few months of this season is young player Omar Ramos. The left winger who has only played just 2 years in the third division and is now elbow to elbow with some of the best players on the planet" There is an interview with the player and 2 photos.

Back to work

The team have finished their holidays. The CD Tenerife first team are back to training tomorrow morning the 29th. After 1 weeks holiday the players have to be on the island by monday night to be fit to train in the Mundialito training ground for 10am Tuesday morning. This way the team can start to train for the game on Sunday the 3rd of January against Racing de Santander.
The players who are choosen to go to Santander with trainer José Luis Oltra to Santander will be travelling on Friday the 1st of January. This will be a direct journey with flights to and from Bilbao.

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.