First final.

Jose Luis Oltra said yesterday in an interview that today's game is the first of 14 finals that CD Tenerife has to play. He also said that the team can make it although it is complicated and the players need to give their all in every game.
The players who went to Galicia last night are the team expected to play Nino, Kome, Alfaro, Ayoze, Ricardo, Richi, Janlu, Pablo Sicilia, Culebras, Manolo and Aragoneses. Also the substitutes Luis Garcia, Hector, Omar, Roman, Mikel Alonso, Angel, and Dinei. The team will be coming home tonight and are off tomorrow and Tuesday.
Deportivo will be a hard rival. They are in 6th place right now and hope to stay there as this position will secure them a Europa League place for next season.

Marc is out for 3/4 weeks

Bad news has come with the notice that Marc Bertran has been injured. The player from Lleida, Spain has damaged his femoral biceps in his left leg. He is expected to be out for 3 or 4 weeks. This leaves the team two deenders missing as Carlos Belvis is also injured. Maybe Culebras will have a chance to play again after his red card dismissal in San Mames

New items in The CDT shop

From today Tuesday the second of March the CDT shop will have new tems on sale.

These will include heat blocking window covers for the front window of your car with the club logo on. Also as a special offer to comemorate the win against Deportivo la Coruna in Riazor20 years ago for only 35 euros.
That win allowed the team to stay in the first division. This Saturday the team will wear the red strip again with the hope it will bring them luck and allow us again to stay up.

Halcon viajes still have places left for anyone who wanted to visit La Coruna and see the game. The cost is 199 euros going Friday night a night in a hotel, the game and the journey home. For further information you need to visit any Halcon Viajes teavel agent offices.

Return to Riazor, the scene of their saving.

One goal changed our life. One goal by Eduardo Ramos in Riazor permitted CD Tenerife to stay out of relegation to the second division. This was on the 10 of June 1990. The blue and whites are going back on Saturday to the Galician stadium, that almost 20 years ago marked their resurrection.

Then CD Tenerife played for staying up in the first division against Deportivo. One header from a CD Tenerife player opened a new stage in the Tenerife history.

That goal marked a before and after. It was the end of a suffering and an entry into a happy time. The 0-1 served for the team to maintain their position in the elite. After the 0-0 from the home game played a week before in the Heliodoro.

Even if CD Tenerife had lost four times in Riazor they have never won when they were in the first division. They have drawn once and lost five times. Those four wins are long ago the first being in 23 of September in 1973, Cd Tenerife managed a 0-2 win with goals from Mauro y Gilberto.

Then ten years passed before they won again on the 25 of September in 1984, with goals from Rubén Cano y Lasaosa making the score enough to overcome the Depo resistance.

After that there was a win in the season 88-89. Guina, Rommel Fernández & Víctor scored for CD Tenerife, whilst Gil scored to only Galician goal. In this season, CD Tenerife managed to go up to the first division.

The next time they came face to face was in the remembered game for the ascension. After the 0-0 achieved in the Heliodoro, the blue and white islanders needed a good game not to return to the second division. Against adversity, in a full stadium with a hostile audience, Eduardo Ramos, with a header, saved Tenerife.

Since then, whenever the teams have encountered themselves in the first division, CD Tenerife has never managed a win. the first game in the elite finished with a 1-1 draw after goals by Felipe & Claudio.

The following year, they drew again, this time with 2-2. Ezequiel Castillo & Dertycia scored for the visitors, whilst Fran & Bebeto did the same for their team. This year, the 92/93, both teams had good results, finishing with the Galicians in third place and the Canarians in fifth.

On the 17 of April in 1994, Deportivo won for the first time in the first division. Claudio Barragán scored two goals, whilst CD Tenerife finished with 10 as Dertycia was sent off. In that season, The Cournian team lost the league in the last round in a game against Valencia. The title went to FC Barcelona.

The 4-1 of the 94-95 season saw a “hat trick” from Bebeto. Then there were two draws and two losses. The penultimate visit by CD Tenerife to Riazor in a league game occurred on the 14 of March in 1999. With goals from Djalminha andl Turu Flores, Irureta players won by 2-0.

The teams last visit to Riazor saw a loss. On the 24 of March the game (3-1) saw Javier Clemente deserve more. Lussenhoff scored after 30 minutes. Scaloni equalised with 15 minutes left to play and in the last seconds Scaloni y Makaay sentenced the game.

Interview Jose Luis Oltra 27/02/2010

" Even with the loss the line to follow is the one we saw today." This was the phrase that José Luis Oltra announced in the press conference on Saturday night after the CD Tenerife - Real Madrid game. The trainer repeated that he is proud of the players as they never gave up.
The trainer of the blue and whites explained that " every loss hurts and if it is a big score loss this hurts even more. We lost against a great team, a team with wonderful abilities. In the fist half they shot at goal twice and scored two goals. We then managed the 1-2 but their third goal came very quickly. But the team never stopped fighting. There is a great difference between the two teams.”
He continued his analysis of the weekends game. " with the 1-3 most teams would have stopped fighting but we didn't. Even with the score so hard to overcome we had various shots at goal. Real Madrid is very solid in defence. Even with the loss we need to keep on the path we followed today. I continue to believe in the team even with the away results. There are 14 finals left, starting in La Coruña. We are conscious that our options mean we need to win the home games. Not every game is against a team like Real Madrid"
He continued "My job is to see that the team gives their all. There is one club, one Island and one set of fans who respond to us every week. Our goal is to fight. We are going to achieve salvation, with suffering, with pain but we will achieve it." insisted the trainer.
Oltra reminded that the team continues with their head held high: " I try to look for the best way to win. You can blame the team for nothing, today they played the best thy could. What happened is we played a team with different dynamics and with a great ability to score. The difference in the field is not what is reflected in the score. Although that is just an opinion."

"My work and mental effort and that of the group is what will get us out of here. The feeling when you lose is bad. The losses make people sad.” finished the local trainer.

Agenda for the week 1 to 7 of March de 2010

Agenda for the week 1 to 7 of March de 2010

Day	Time	Place	Activity
Monday	10:00	El Mundialito	Training
Tuesday	10:00	El Mundialito	Training
Wednesday	10:00	Heliodoro	Training
Thursday	10:00	El Mundialito	ETraining
Friday	10:00	Heliodoro	Training
Friday	-	Heliodoro	List of convoked players
Friday	-	Heliodoro	Press conference JL Oltra
Saturday	17:00	Riazor	Deportivo-CD Tenerife

CD Tenerife 1 - Real Madrid 5

This was always going to be a hard game. Their budget for the year is so far away from ours we could be talking about Monopoly money. But it is the last of the big home games. This leaves us with the need to win all the rest of the home games without fail. Left to visit are Espanol, Villareal, Valladolid, Getafe, Racing and Almeria. If we could add to that points against Xerez and maybe one other then we would be saved, I think


CD TENERIFE 1 (0)
REAL MADRID CF 5 (2)

CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Marc Beltrán, Manolo Martínez (Omar, 60’), Ezequiel Luna, Pablo Sicilia; Richi (Dinei, 67’), Ricardo; Juanlu Hens (Mikel Alonso, 81’), Alfaro, Ayoze & Nino.

REAL MADRID CF
Casillas; Sergio Ramos, Albiol, Garay, Marcelo; Xavi Alonso (Diarrá, 82’); Lass, Kaká, Granero (Van Der Vaart, 74’); Cristiano Ronaldo & Higuaín (Raúl, 77’).

REFEREE
Rafael Ramírez Domínguez, from Andalucia. Yellow cards for local players Sergio Aragoneses (23’), Ezequiel Luna (69’) & Nino (79), and for visitors Xaxi Alonso (22’) y Granero (49’).

GOALS
0-1: (28’) Higuaín with a cross ball in front of Sergio Aragoneses. 0-2: (41’) Higuaín, with a hard ball infront of the goal. 1-2: (46’) Ayoze, with a header, after a centre by Nino. 1-3: (47’) Kaká,alone infornt of Aragoneses, after a pass by Higuaín. 1-4: (79’) Cristiano Ronaldo, with a penalty. 1-5: (92') Raúl, who remade a shot by Van Der Vaart.

INCIDENTS
Twenty forth round of the BBVA league in Primera División. Disputed in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López Stadium in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with 22.123 spectators, which filled the stadium. The players from CD Tenerife wore a shirt supporting the Roque de Los Muchachos, in the island of La Palma, as the site for the Extremely Large European Telescope (E-ELT).