Rumours

The internet and the newspapers are awash with rumours but very little in the way of facts.

Trainer - Various sources including newspapers El Dia and Diario de Avisos have stated that our new trainer will be Gonzalo Arconada. What is certain is yesterday he gave an interview and said he will not be renewing with Numancia and he says he has a new club to go to. I hope we will hear something from the club this coming week and if not next week after the second division is finished.

Players - Where to start, there have been rumours about players coming including Mendoza, Casado, Alex Quillo, Chechu Dorado  and Barkero. There have been rumour about players returning including; Mista, Jesus Vasquez and Vitolo.

Hector and Angel have decided not to stay with CD Tenerife. Hector because he feels he has better offers elsewhere and Ángel because he wants to play more to improve his game and CD Tenerife can't be sure they will have space for him to play more minutes. There are rumours that Hector has an offer from Villareal B and Ángel from Celta de Vigo so we may well see both player this season visiting with their new teams.
There is a rumour that we are going to swap Roman and money for Marc Bertran with Español.

What is certain is the club is now negotiating with Ruben Rosquete for a professional contract.

Trainer Jose Luis Oltra is apparently in talks with recently descended Valladolid who are also looking for a trainer for their first team after the club decided not to renew with Javier Clemente.

Miguel Concepción talks to the fans.

Yesterday morning Club president Miguel Concepción was in the offices of local newspaper La Opinión de Tenerife, to answer fans questions sent in by internet about the up to date goings on in the blue and white club.

Miguel Concepción answered the questions given and tried to be open and honest with the fans. The businessman for La Palma was asked about aspects of the clubs sporting & institutional plans and he then defended his efforts as president of C D Tenerife.


The president of the team commented on the near future of the club. He explained that the club is going to build a team to aspire to return to the first division. That you can never be sure this is what will happen but that the aim of the club is to return to Primera next summer.

Trainer - When he was asked about trainer José Luis Oltra, Miguel Concepción stated that both the team council and the sports director coincided in the thought that it was time for a change in Tenerife and that they wanted to start a new project with many new players and a new training team. Above all the president was clear when he said "Until I have a signed contract nothing is sure, we continue to look to sign a trainer who fulfills the characteristics we are looking for. Don't forget the second division is not finished. There are trainers who are not working and others who will be leaving their jobs when the season is completed.

Youth teams - The fact that several of the members of the team who had come up through the youth teams have left this year was a question from several people. Concepción answered " We plan to continue to promote the youth teams and work with our young players but we also have to respect that there are players who will want to leave Tenerife as they see their future as being better in another team. We will continue to work the way we are at present." In another question he responded "Our aim has always been to support our youth players but the places in the first team have to be filled by the best players we have for the spot. This is what makes the team competitive"

Fans - The maximum boss of CD Tenerife defended his position in the club with comments that the fans supported him and the team. His words included " I know that in a large group of fans there will always be some who do not have this feeling but generally the fans want me to be president."

Finances -When asked about the financial situation the club finds itself in Miguel Concepción revealed that although being relegated has meant that the entity doesn't think they will be able to reduce the debt next year, three years at the highest level will allow the club to reduce the debt to zero. This is partly why the club is going to make the enormous effort to return to the first division as soon as possible. He also discussed the hope that this year the club will be fused with the promotora a separate entity to the club itself.

When asked about Nino the president stated that there were on going negotiations and that he felt they were going well. He repeated that he hoped Nino will finish his career here in Tenerife.

Luanvi

Although it hasn't been anounced on the club website Luanvi  have stated they have taken over the contract to clothe the team.
This Valencia based company are named after their three owners Luis, Antonio and Vincente. The company strated in the seventies as a maker of fancy dress costumes. The most popular of their costumes were football strips. Form that start they actually moved into making real strips.
Companies they have made strips for include Valencia CF, Villarreal CF, Mallorca CF, & Hércules CF.
They have promised an inovative second strip as they feel legally they cannot make a shirt with the cross from the Tenerife flag due to copyrite laws

Fan support

The fans were there this year supporting their team tirelessly. This year more than others the support for the fans has proved a turning factor in several games in the home stadium Heliodoro Rodríguez López in the Primera league of the BBVA.


At no time were there less than 15,000 fans in the stadium for any league game which was a substantial reason for the 30 home points gained stated the club website yesterday. The home win points was the highest of any team between 12th and 20th position in the classification of the league

In the end the stadium received more then 350 thousand visitors in total 350.302 which is a record in CD Tenerife's history. This is an average of 18.436 spectators per game, which is almost eighty per cent of the available seats in the Santa Cruz stadium.

The game which received most visitors was Tenerife-FC Barcelona, with 22.510 people; beating by 387 the game where José Luis Oltra's team played the other classic Spanish team Real Madrid, where there were 22.123 spectators.

The gates were over 20,000 another five times starting with the game against Club Atlético de Madrid, when there were 21.414 fans; and when Valencia visited, with 21.366.
Also the mass of fans were present in other games including the ones against Athletic de Bilbao (20.622), Sevilla (20.552) & finally Almería (20.810).

The 17,000 season ticket holders and the relationship between the team and the stands caused this success. A relationship which started in the year the team ascended to the first division. And the club are sure it will be repeated in the season 2010-2011 when CD Tenerife will try again to recuperate their place in the highest level.

Seasons statistics

At the end of the season looking back here are some of the good points about the year with some of the players figures for their time in the first division.








This season is now finished and here are some of the good aspects of the season both for CD Tenerife and for the players. The first figure for the team is that the result for the end of play most frequent was 1-1. This occurred in 45 occasions. In the whole league the Tenerife team were awarded 4 penalties, two of these were converted into goals and two missed. Against CD Tenerife there were 5 penalties which were all converted into goals. The blue and white team were the team with most passes into the goal area (1,202), followed by Osasuna and Sevilla respectively.

Nino was the third highest national goal scorer equally with Llorente they scored 14 goals, (only Villa had more.)  He scored 11 with his right foot and three with headers. The CD Tenerife forward was the field player who played the most minutes with a total of 3,360 minutes played ( the whole league with the exception of 60 minutes in round 36 the Barcelona-CD Tenerife game.) This was followed by Capdevilla (Villarreal CF) who was missing 109 minutes and Iraola (Ath. Bilbao) with 141 minutes.

Other interesting information about Angel who played 24 games and in all he started on the bench. He was the substitute who played in most games (24) followed by Antoñito (Xerez 23), Raúl (R. Madrid 22) and Dinei who also played in 22 games as sub and one he started.

Finally as players substituted Aranda (Osasuna) was changed 24 times, De La Cuevas (S. Gijón 22) and JuanLu 21 times.

When numbers are counted then keeper Sergio Aragoneses should be included. He was the only player in CD Tenerife who played the full 38 rounds accumulating a total of 3.420 oficial minutes.

Possible Defender

 The first possible new player.



CD Tenerife has aparently asked about the left footed defender in Sociedad Deportiva Huesca. The player is called Chechu Dorado.
After the team decided not to renew the contracts of  José Antonio Culebras & Manolo Martínez defenders will be needed. Information released last night by Canarias Radio La Autonómica informed that the club has been in contact with the 27 year old player. In this season he has played 38 games and last season he played 39 games. All of the games he played form the start. He has been on of the most important players for trainer Antonio Calderón. The player has also played as a left defender. As well as playing the last few years in Huesca he played in lower teams in Córdoba and in Zaragoza, as well as playing in UE Lleida between 2004 & 2007.

Interview with Mikel Alonso.

Q. After your first few days of your holiday, how do you see the last season?

A. On one hand based on the fact we were relegated that is what counts. On the other hand we played well, there were all the games we won. But finally you are left with a bitter taste to return to the second division. We were in with a chance until the end we played really good football. It is a terrible shame.

Q. You are a player with experience in the elite division. Have you ever played a season which was a equal at the bottom as this year?

A. It is more or less normal. I can remember other years that were this close. People make mistakes and sometimes this causes problems and the other way around; teams who seem to have no hope and at the end manage to keep their head above water. The end of the league is always hard although perhaps not as hard as this year. We were in with a chance to the end.

Q. And personally, after a year and a half here, how do you see things?

A. I am very happy here in the group, with the club, with the trainers and the day by day training. I like the city and the island. When I arrived here the team were in the second division and I didn't manage to play a lot as the group was already formed. Then from the beginning of this season I started to play. This time has been great above all because of the great level of the team.

Q. How do you see the next season in the second division having been relegated?

A. I don't know. I can't tell how it will be next season. Right now my plan is to rest but I am sure as with every year we will be excited to start to play when the time comes.

Q.This year you have almost two months holidays. What sort of preparations will you take during this time?

A. In this sense I am very lucky, I don't tend to have any trouble with weight and I find it very easy to get fit again. This could be because I am always active. I try to enjoy my holidays like every normal person. Then with training little by little I start to get a rhythm.