Thoughts for a new year

There has been a lot of talk on various forums including the Armada Sur one about how badly the team is playing and if they continue to play like this they will go down. This is certainly possible. For those of us who have been going to support CDT this year is going to be fabulous what ever the final position. Don't get me wrong I would love the team to say up and will support them to the end however they play. I hated the way they whistled at Manolo in November. However they will still be my team and I will still be going to see them play even if next year it was in the second division as we have for years.
The club had serious financial problems 3 years ago and when Miguel Concepción stood for president he made promises. Promises he has kept. He promised we would consolidate, we did. He promised that in 3 years we would go up to the first division, we have. And when we went up this year he has promised we will stay up. Anyone with knowledge about the club knows we still have large financial debts, less that thre years ago but still debts. This means we have difficulties when it comes to buying players. Nino came on loan and only after he proved he could make it with us did the club buy him.
The new players this year Roman is on loan as Espanol has too many non-Europeans, Dinei came from an major injury and Bellvis came up from Elche in the second division. Alfaro coming back on loan was regarded as a miracle. Other than this the team renewed what they had and got on with it. And they have done well until now. Away games have always been a struggle. 3 seasons ago we went nearly the whole year without an away point. If our home ground wasn't such a fortress we would have been in segunda B.
We can make this if we all pull together but the team needs to feel we support them. Hopefully Santigo Llorente will manage to buy or find two or three players to support the team. But most of all we need to support the players and be there at every game cheering them on. See you Sunday.

Ricardo & Juanlu

Ricardo León y Juanlu Hens were the two players interviewed on Monday the 4th of January after the players finished their training session in La Maruca in Santander.

The Canarian footballer on one side commented that " we need to improve our points from here to the end of the first half. This can't happen again. We need to improve various aspects of our game although we did some things well". He then tried to raise hopes by saying "time is passing and we are recovering although this last loss was hard". When asked about the FC Barcelona game he said that " we are going to play the best team in the world,but it will be in our stadium where we are strong and we will need to show this one more time".


Juanlu Hens, then said, “ I consider that in general terms, the team did a good job, but in 5 minutes they scored two goals which cost us the loss. We need to go on working peacefully. At the moment we were playing best they scored and then we couldn't come back”.

“We are committed and hopeful that we will finish the first round and start the second round in good form”, added the player from Cordoba , he then concluded that “Barcelona is a very complicated rival, the best team right now. We need to show then the most difficult game we can, to make them uncomfortable. We need to go out to play committed and of course give away nothing”, he finished.

Training schedule week comencing 04 Januay to 10th January

Agenda for the 04 to 10 January 2010

Day	Time	Place	Activity
Monday	08:30	La Maruca	Training
Tuesday	-	-	Day off
Wednesday	12:00	El Mundialito	Training
Thursday	10:00	Heliodoro	Training
Friday	10:00	El Mundialito	Training
Friday	-	El Mundialito	Press conference
Saturday	10:00	Heliodoro	Training
Saturday	-	Heliodoro	List of Players
Sunday	20:00	Heliodoro	CD Tenerife-FC Barcelona

CD Tenerife to take part in the 3 Kings parade

For the first time CD Tenerife will take part in the 3 Kings Parade in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in their own Carriage. Present will be players from the youth teams and the second and third team. The ceremony will start out from the stadium Heliodoro Rodríguez López at 19:00 and will pass through the main streets of Santa Cruz.

This is part of the clubs promotion this Christmas to get children more involved with the club and the players. There have been signings outside the club shop. The players have been today to the PIT to sign more autographs and spend time with local children. They also spent time in the childrens wards in hospitals in Santa Cruz and La Laguna.

Racing de Santander 2 - CD Tenerife 0

This was one of those games. Nearly all through the first half we looked reasonable and there seemed a chance for a second point away but we had very few shots at goal and finally as ever if you don't score you lose.
Game Notes

RACING DE SANTANDER 2 (0)
CD TENERIFE 0 (0)

RACING DE SANTANDER
Coltorti; Pinillos, Henrique, Torrejón, Christian Fernández; Colsa, Lacen, Canales (Arana, 67’), Serrano (Geijo, 70’); Munitis & Tchité (Xisco, 60’).

CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Juanlu Hens, Carlos Bellvís, Pablo Sicilia, Ezequiel Luna; Ricardo, Mikel Alonso (Román Martínez, 83’), Kome (Ángel, 60’), Ayoze (Dinei, 79’); Alfaro & Nino.

Referee
Alfonso Álvarez Izquierdo, from Catalyuna. Yellow card for local player Pinillos; and for the visitors Ricardo y Juanlu Hens.

GOALS
1-0: (72’) Colsa. 2-0: (75’) Xisco.

INCIDENTS
Played in El Sardinero stadium. The pitch was in bad condition, very soft. 15.264 spectators. Rainy, windy afternoon. CD Tenerife players wore black armbands in memory of Hector's brother a fellow team member.

Interview with Alejandro Alfaro & Pablo Sicilia

Alejandro Alfaro & Pablo Sicilia where the palyers interviewed today Saturday in Santander after training in La Maruca.
The player from Onubense, on one side, stated that the plan is to start out “empezar the new year on a good foot and win the first thre points away. We want to make the fans happy and ourselves”.

And for Alfaro, a victory “would be threefold”, given that this is a direct rival. “There are many incentives for this weekend and we hope for a good result. Right now we have a different calander, with the best teams against us at home y and away playing aginst direct rivals. We need to gain some points against Santander and Almeria in the next two away games”, he added.

In reference to the Santander team, the ‘21’ from CD Tenerife assured “They are having a lot of problems at home, y parecen sentirse más cómodos a domicilio. Debemos aprovecharlo, if we control our game, and are concentrated from the begining, we can correct previous errors and take the game”.

Pablo Sicilia, for his part, started his interview confessing that “Now we wish to start the new year with an away win, something we have been chasing since the beginning of the season and lets see if against Racing de Santander we are capable of achiveing this.”, an objective that will ne be easy as “our rival is looking to get out of the same position”.

When asked about the important points of the game, the Gran Canarian indicated that “we need to make sure, by all means, to play a good game, go out with our home spirit and try to make no mistakes. They are a difficult rival and we are concient that winning in El Sardinero will not be an easy job, but going all out we can achieve these three points”.

Sicilia, who conceded that “we need to keep our goal at zero and try make the most of our chances”, he concluded with his wish for 2010. “For the new year I wish for health and that Tenerife stays in the first division.”.

Last training session for the week.

The team finished their last training session today Saturday for the game tomorrow in Santander. Training in the Complejo Deportivo La Maruca, in Camargo (Santander). The session lasted one hour and ten minutes.

The practise consisted of the warmup then a series of rounds, exercises with the midfielders and shots at goal. Followed by a minigame in half the field.
All the players who formed the Tenerife expedition, that is , Sergio Aragoneses, Luis García; Bellvís, Culebras, Pablo Sicilia, Luna, Aitor Núñez; Ricardo, Ayoze, Román Martínez, Alfaro, Kome, Juanlu Hens, Richi, Míkel Alonso; Nino, Ángel & Dinei, took part in the training with no problems.