Dammed island

Although it was 20 years ago, Real Madrid fans never forget the two leagues they lost here. Both leagues were then won by FC Barcelona which hurts even more. Although the match was played against their second team last Sunday there was still that uncomfortable feeling.
The fans turned out in force for a match which was the game of the season. 13.400 fans turned out to see their team win, and win they did. In a game which for me was the best the team have played this season. They controlled the field and never at any moment looked inferior to Castilla. This could be the start of the run up to the playffs. The next game is at home against La Roda this Sunday at 12.00.


Game notes

CD TENERIFE 3 (1) REAL MADRID CASTILLA 1 (1) CD TENERIFE Razak; Cristóbal, Raúl Llorente, Tarantino, Pablo Sicilia; Marcos Rodríguez, Álvaro Zazo (Medina, 85’), Chechu (Rosquete, 77’), Kike López; Perona & Kiko Ratón (Aridane, 61’). REAL MADRID CASTILLA Tomás Mejías; Carvajal, Mendes, Nacho, Casado; Juanfran (Lucas, 83’), Mosquera, Mandi (Sobrino, 68’), Denis (Omar, 66’); Jesé & Joselu. REFEREE Jorge Figueroa Vázquez, from Andalucia. Sent off Manolo Sánchez, assistant trainer for CDT. Yellow cards for local players Pablo Sicilia, Kiko Ratón, Raúl Llorente, Perona, Razak & Tarantino; and for visitor Joselu. GOALS 0-1: (19’) Juanfran with a counter attack. 1-1: (34’) Perona, with a header. 2-1: (68’) Perona, with a header. 3-1: (93’) Kike López, from a counter attack. INCIDENTS Played in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium. Ground in good condition on a sunny morning with 13.400 fans in the stands. A minutes silence was held for Pepe Arias, ex CD Tenerife player.

Yes we Can

Oh God not again was probably my first coherent thought during the game yesterday as Marcos Rodriguez managed to head the ball into our net. The two people next to me missed the goal completely it was so early into the match. This season seems to have been one struggle after another. On the other hand the game has bought me into contact with so many great people. One who will be missed is Andy Glover who sadly died In January. My best memory of Andy would be last season going to Salamanca with Armada Sur. Andy ended up in the middle row of the minibus next to me. I am not sure I have ever laughed so much. In front were Chris and Frank and to my right was JuanMa. The three all knew the best way to get to Salamanca and "discussed" it. Andy took the pi** the whole journey and I just got go laugh. Yesterday I saw once more what a family CD Tenerife really is. The Frente Blanquiazul, the big bad fan club wre amazing.

Out of their own pockets they bought t-shirts comemorating Andy. They congregated early and weal led down to the Armada Sur bar singing "Andy we won't forget you". With blue and white flowers for Andy's mum they remembered Andy in style.

At the start of the game they had a banner to remember him again

And I think he was there pushing the team on. The new coach seems to have instilled the will to fight in the squad. CDT had over 30 shots into the goal area as against the 4 Albacete managed. At no point did the team look ready to give up, draw back or just defend. The equalizer came Late in the 67th minute from a free kick taken by new player Luis Loro and the goal which put the team into the lead was by Canarian player Pablo Sicilia in the 89th minute with a header. The crowd went wild and some of the happiness which has been missing in the last two seasons returned to the Heliodoro. Pablo, ever the hero took his shirt to Andy's mum at the end of the game. It was a great day and worth mentioning that from all the games this season there were only 8 stadiums with more fans. Not in 2b nor in 2A was there a stadium with as many fans. CD TENERIFE 2 (0) ALBACETE BALOMPIÉ 1 (1) CD TENERIFE Sergio Aragoneses; Cristóbal, Raúl Llorente, Pablo Sicilia, Ayoze Placeres; Kitoko, Marcos Rodríguez (Perona, 52’), Kike López, Ferrán Tacón (Chechu, 52’); Luismi Loro & Kiko Ratón (Aridane, 61’). ALBACETE BALOMPIÉ Miguel; Alba, Noguerol, Joan Castillo, Zurdo; Añón (Raúl Ruiz, 63’), Candela (Núñez, 54), Rocha, Adriá; Sergio Molina (Viguera, 76’) & Calle. REFEREE Francisco Javier Barberá Fuentes, from Valencia. Yellow cards for local players Kitoko, Marcos Rodríguez & Sergio Aragoneses; and for visitors Rocha, Calle, Zurdo & Castillo. GOALS 0-1: (2’) Marcos Rodríguez, in the CDT goal. 1-1: (67’) Loro, from a free kick. 2-1: (89’) Pablo Sicilia, with a header. INCIDENTS Played in the Heliodoro Rodriguez stadium. With grass in good condition on a cold morning with 9993 fans in the stands. The delegate was Carlos Gaviño, as Víctor Padrón couldn't be there due to being sent off last week.

Six sessions before the battle of La Mancha

The players will train six times before they face Albacete Balompie. The blue and white squad will train twice on Wednesday

Agenda for the week 30 January to 5th of  February 2012

 

 

DAY	TIME	PLACE	ACTIVIT
Monday	10.30	El Mundialito	Rest day
Tuesday	-	-	Day off
Wednesday	10.00	El Mundialito	Training
Wednesday	17.00	El Mundialito	Training
Thursday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Friday	10.30	Heliodoro	Training
Friday	-	Heliodoro	Press Conference - Andrés García Tébar
Saturday	10.30	Heliodoro	Training
Sunday	12.00	Heliodoro	CD Tenerife-Albacete Balompié

First time out with new coach was a winner

It is often said the first game with a new coach should be won. Although it was not like that last season the rule has been proved again for new coach Garcia Tebar.












CD Tenerife were in the Fuensanta grounds with new coach Garcia Tebas and new forward Lusmi Loro who has arrived last week to help the team.
Both sides had good chances in the first hold and the score could have gone either way. Chechu Flores had a shot at goal after 10 minutes and  pushed it over the long goal bar. After 21 minutes Kiko Raton came off injured and was replaced by Gran Canarian player Aridane. One and a half minutes later new player Loro centred the ball from the left wing to Aridande and the forward  headed the ball in the goal putting the blue and white team into the lead.After that the Conquense players fought back and Ruano, shot the ball at the post from the area and then eight minutes before the half time whistle Morillas and the wind shot at goal and Sergio pushed the ball over the goal leaving the team at 0-1 at half time.

Straight  after the players came back on the field the blue aand white players scored their second goal. A ball centred by Ferran Tacon was knocked in towards the far post by Chechu Flores. The island tam then tried to finish off the game but a clear penalty in the 57th minute was ignored by the referee and he then signaled a foul and second yellow card against Tarantino and he was then sent off. The team were now down to 10 men.
Six minutes later Conquense scored and bought the result to 1-2 with a goal by Vinuesa.

In the final minutes of the match the local team pushed hard to at least try to equalise and save themselves a point and they had several chances but the blue and whites pulled together and held the result adding three important points to bring home with them.


Game notes

UB CONQUENSE   1 (0)
CD TENERIFE        2 (1)

UB CONQUENSE
Caballero; Piette, Juan Fran (Dani Rodríguez, 68’), Juli Ferrer, Morillas; Javi Selvas, Pulga (Mauri, 52’), Cubillo, Dailos (Christian, 52’); Ruano & Vinuesa.

CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses, Cristóbal, Raúl Llorente, Pablo Sicilia, Tarantino; Kitoko, Marcos Rodríguez, Chechu (Medina, 59’), Ferrán Tacón; Luismi Loro (Víctor Bravo, 78’) & Kiko Ratón (Aridane, 20’).

REFEREE
Víctor Manuel Sánchez Rico, from Catalunya. Sent off visitor Tarantino (57’), with two yellow cards. Also visiting delegate Víctor Padrón. Yellow cards for local players Javi Selvas, Cubillo&  Piette; and for visitors Marcos Rodríguez, Loro & Kitoko. 

GOALS
0-1: (23’) Aridane, with a header. 0-2: (48’) Chechu, from a cross ball. 2-1: (63’) Vinuesa, from a pass by Mauri. 

INCIDENTS
Played in the La Fuensanta stadium. Ground was in terrible condition on a cold morning with 1,000 spectators.T Club president  Miguel Concepción present at the game.

"Movido" weekend

The Spanish have a word "Movido" which leterally translates to mean with movement but can also mean change or excitment. This is how I would have described last weekend.
There were changes in the starting eleven, Kiko wasn't paying and Aridane was starting up front, but just the one forward. Abel from the youth squads was in mid-field for the first time and yet again the team had changed. Calderon has only played the same squad twice this season. They came out on the field and looked good but a lucky play Guerrero scored for Sporting B. CD Tenerife had various chances but the ball didn't go in. Then Juan Muñiz scored a second goal for Sporting B from a free kick. The blue and white players never gave up and tried continually until half time to score.
At half time Tenerife decided to through chance to the wind and took off Medina and Abel bringing on Kiko and Nico. This left Chechu on the right  with Kitoko as the only midfielder, the two giants up front  and Nico behind them. The goal wasn't far behind and with a Sporting defense mistake Aridane took his chance and put the ball in the net.
The draw came with a penalty against Nico which Perona converted into a goal. But Sporting found an chance and scored their third goal.
The game finished with the fans shouting "Caalderon quit" and shortly after the match Sports manager Pedro Cordero announced that thecaoch had been sacked.

There is talk about the new coach but nothing has been confirmed bythe club

Calderon said goodbye to the players this morning and the new coach is expected this afternoon or tomorrow.









Game Notes


CD TENERIFE  2 (0)
SPORTING DE GIJÓN B 3 (2)
CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; David Medina (Nico, 46’), Raúl Llorente, Pablo Sicilia, Tarantino;  Abel (Ratón, 46’), Kitoko, Chechu, Ferrán Tacón (Perona, 64’); Víctor Bravo y Aridane Santana.
SPORTING DE GIJÓN B
Raúl; Alberto, Orfila, Alain, Menéndez; Jara (Guille Pérez, 75’) Juan Muñiz, Barrera, Mendy; Guerrero (Mera, 86’) y Serrano (Carlinos, 55’).
ÁRBITRO
Antonio Gordillo, del colegio Balear. Expulsó al entrenador visitante Manolo Sánchez. Amonestó por los locales a Tarantino, Sicilia y Ratón; y por los visitantes a Alain, Serrano, Raúl, Barrera, Carlinos, Guerrero, Menéndez y Muñiz.
GOLES
0-1: (21’) Guerrero, tras un rebote. 0-2: (34’) Juan Muñiz, de falta. 1-2 (48’) Aridane, tras un rechace del larguero. 2-2: (77’) Perona, de penalti. 2-3: (83’) Guerrero, tras un rechace de Aragoneses.
INCIDENCIAS
Heliodoro. Terreno de juego en buenas condiciones. Mañana algo fría. Ante 8.352 espectadores. Minuto de silencio en memoria de Héctor Núñez, ex entrenador del CD Tenerife; y Adelardo de la Calle, ex vicepresidente blanquiazul.

Agenda for the week 16 - 23 January 2012

Agenda for the week 16 - 23 January 2012

 

 

DAY	TIME	PLACE	ACTIVTY
Monday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Tuesday	-	-	Day off
Wednesday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Wednesday	16.30	El Mundialito	Training
Thursday	10.30	Heliodoro	Training
Friday	10.30	El Mundialito	Training
Friday	-	El Mundialito	Press conference Antonio Calderón
Saturday	10.30	Heliodoro	Training
Saturday	-	Heliodoro	List of players
Sunday	12.00	Heliodoro	CD Tenerife-Sporting Gijón B

When a draw feels like we lost.

Funny day yesterday, on the back of a 0-4 win in Alcala de Henares 500 CD Tenerife fans journeyed to Gran Canaria to the town of Vecindario. One of the smallest teams in the 2B league they are on the east coast of the island. The ferry companies decided they couldn't delay the ships so 90% of the visitors went by plane. All day from where we sat in  the Comercial centre Atlantida we coud see fans arrive and spend their hard earned money in the little town. As the game time came closer the Tenerife fans walked together singing towards the grounds only to be met by jeers from UD Las Palmas supporters. Not sure why they were there if it wasn't to provoke.
The police were not to be seen but still the blue and white fans continued onto the football field.
There was no trouble at the grounds I saw, although I have seen some comments on twitter that the police felt the needed to create a path between the blue & whites and the yellow fans by hitting the Chicharreros with their batons.

The game started with the Tenerife fans in one corner together singing, a banner was produced by the Zoneros, one of the bigger fan groups saying "Pablo Sicilia was an outstanding Canarion" (From Gran Canaria not the Canaries) and there were around the edge of the corner represenative banners from thefan clubs; Armada Sur, Frente Blanquiazul, Irish Clan and Zoneros.

The game was hard fought with neither side having many shots at goal, when right at the end there was a foul against a blue and white player in the box and the linesman called penalty. A goal!!!! Perona scored but the euphoria was short lived as five minutes later from a corner Vecindario scored.
A point to the total and a journey home. The faces on the fans in the airport said it all, but those same loyal fans will be in the stands on Sunday supporting the side at 12.00 against Sporting B.
They sang yesterday as they often do:

     It is really easy to support a winning tean

being a CDT fans is better

It is a pleasure to be a CD Tenerife fan, it brings friednship, loyalty and a love of the game I would never have known without the team but it can also be hard. See you Sunday in the Heliodoro

Game notes

UD VECINDARIO  1 (0)
CD TENERIFE       1 (0) 


UD VECINDARIO
Santi Lampón; Simón, Roberto, Amado, Pollo; Badayco, Rubén Coméndez (Moisés, 80’), Poncho (Maikel, 75’), Yeray Ortega; Yeray López & Futre.

CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; David Medina, Llorente, Tarantino, Pablo Sicilia; Marcos, Kitoko, Chechu (Perona, 70’), Ferrán Tacón; Víctor Bravo (Zazo, 89’) & Kiko Ratón (Aridane, 60’).

REFEREE
Rubén Eiriz, from Galicia. Yellow cards for local players Simón, Moisés y Roberto; and for visitors Marcos, Víctor Bravo, Sicilia & Medina.

GOALS
0-1: (87’) Perona, from a penalty. 1-1: (93’) Aragoneses, in his own goal.

INCIDENTS
Played in the Municipal grounds in Vecindario. On Astroturf in good condition. On a warm afternoon. With 1.200 spectators of which aprox. 500 were visitors. The blue and white  president Miguel Concepcion was present at the game.