Luismi is staying

Several of the players who came from the Spanish mainland last season came with a high wage bill, especially those who came at Xmas. The club knew if the team didn't go back to the second division these wages would need to be renegotiated. Slowly this is happening and yesterday it was confirmed that Luismi Loro will be staying two years but at lower wages.

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My understanding is they are still in negotiation with several others but I am sure that will unfold over the next couple of weeks

Monday morning

As many of you know we not only have the shop in Playa Fañabe but also run the shop owned by the club in the Callejón del Combate.

This leads to seeing many players come and go. Something I really like, it also feeds my need to travel with the team away as I see them so often. Not sure if that's good or not.
This morning Omar Ramos was about which I think will mean there is an announcement about where he is going. There are rumours he will sign for Huesca who will then loan him to Valladolid. The reason for this is Valladolid are in controlled bankruptcy and struggle to sign anyone. Rumour also says the club will maintain the possibility to earn a percentage on any future signing the player may have.
This can be a great help, if you look at Malaga, the will need to pay 10% to Las Palmas on the money they receive from Rubin Kazan for Roldon or even the money CDT received for Dos Santos when he went to play in Portugal.
Training this week is in the Mundialito Wednesday they play Granadilla and Saturday after training in the Heliodoro the team fly to Las Palmas to play the second round of the Copa Canarias Mahou.

First real test for CDT

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In a game without goals, CD Tenerife managed to hold their own against second division UD Las Palmas. The blue and white team are still expecting the arrival of more players includning a forward which should help them score when the league starts.

Game Notes

CD TENERIFE       0 (0)
UD LAS PALMAS 0 (0)

CD TENERIFE: Sergio Aragoneses; Moyano, Tarantino, Amado, Raúl Llorente; Suso, Íñigo Ros, Cristo Martín, Yeray, Ayoze Pérez; & Aridane. Also played Bruno, David Medina, Jeremy, Chechu, Luismi Loro, Germán, Abel & Nico.

UD LAS PALMAS: Barbosa; Pignol, David García, Murillo, Corrales; Vicente Gómez, Deivid, David González, Vitolo; Nauzet Alemán & Chrisantus. Also played Momo, Javi Guerrero, Dani Castellano, Francis Suárez & Juanpe.

REFEREE: Ariel Jorge González Sicilia, from the Tenerife federation. Yellow card for local player Moyano; and for visitors Vitolo & Barbosa.

GOALS: None.

INCIDENCIAS: Played in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López. With the ground in perfect condition. 2.382 spectators on a warm evening. This was the first game in the Copa Mahou Canarias. The referee, Ariel Jorge González Sicilia, was substituted in minute 89 by the forth referee, Alain Hernández Ramos, also in the Tenerife federation, due to muscle strain.


The next game is on Tuesday in Granadilla at 8pm.

New starts

After a finally upsetting finish to the season where we didn't get to go back up to the second division this weekend has bought better news.
 Quique Medina who was our coach over the last couple of months has been promoted to Sports director and will be in charge of choosing the new team. His first announcement today was that the new coach will be Álvaro Cervera.

 The new coach lived most of his formative years in Tenerife and therefore has an idea of how thngs work here. The plan for the next few years is to try to bring on more local players and have a more Canarian team.
Cervera has worked at diferent levels in Spanish football. He was a player at the highest level and not only played for Racing de Santander but also Mallorca and Valencia. He then went on to coach:

Club	País	Temporada
Catarroja CF	España	2002-2003
Villarreal CF juvenil	España	2003-2004
Catarroja CF	España	2004-2005
CD Castellón	España	2005-2006
UD Almansa	España	2006-2007
Alicante CF	España	2007-2007
Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa	España	2008-2009
Real Jaén	España	2009-2010
Real Unión	España	2010
Recreativo de Huelva	España	2011-2012
Racing de Santander	España	2012
CD Tenerife	España	2012-

Source Wikipedia.es

Last game at home

As I promised I am back today to tell you that after the draw it has now been confirmed that the first leg will be played away and the second leg at home. This seems to giove an enormous assistance to any team. First game seems to be next Sunday night at wither 8 or 9 pm and the following at 12am Sunday the 24th.

Down to the final 4

I haven't been here to often recently which I am really sorry about but with the shop in the north I have been spread very thinly. Not sure that is quite the right phrase but you get the idea.
It has been a great run up to now and the team is qualified for the final round in the fight for going up to segunda. Back to professional football.
This has been a long hard slog with many ups and downs but the present trainer Quique Median seems to have found a good harmony with the players and they are giving it their all. There have been comments over the season but talking to several people close to them they assure me it was much more they were lost than any other thing.
Right now we are waiting for the draw this afternoon. Although it is clear that we will play Ponferradina it is not clear who will have the home advantage and this is what we are waiting to hear.

As for yesterdays game first goal scored after one minute and then it was clear suffering was the name of he game. Tehy equalised and on we go. The crowd never stopped screaming for the team and noise came from all over the stands. Including areas where there are no fan clubs just fans who needed o support at the top of their lungs.
Talking to others I know that when that third goal finally went up on the scoreboard I wasn't the only one who shed a few tears. This has been a painful year but still inspite of everything there is hope and we are in the last 4 teams out of 80 who are left to fight.  As soon as I know more I will be back here to tell you.

Game notes


CD TENERIFE 3 (2)

RB LINENSE   2 (2)

 CD TENERIFE
Sergio Aragoneses; Sergio Rodríguez, Pablo Sicilia, Tarantino, Raúl Llorente; Chechu (Luismi Loro, 77’), Kitoko, Víctor Bravo, Kike López; Perona (Zazo, 62’) & Aridane (Kiko Ratón, 80’).

 RB LINENSE
Míkel Pagola; Francis, Romerito, Carlos Guerra, Gallardo (Ximo, 31)’; Juampe (Javilillo, 70’); Alberto Merino, Ismael (Ezequiel, 75’), Ocaña; Copi & David.

REFEREE Aitor Gorostegui Fernández-Ortega, from the Basque region. Sent off local player Víctor Bravo (57’),  for two yellow cards; and visitors Francis (63’) for double yellow. With a direct red  were visitors Copi & David (90’), as well as their trainer Rafael Escobar. These last three were all after the third goal for Tenerife which bought the score to 3-2. Threre were also yellow cards for visitors Ismael, Ocaña & Ximo.

GOALS 1-0: (1’) Kike López, form a pass by Perona. 1-1: (16’) David, from a pass by  Copi. 2-1: (39’) Víctor Bravo who made the most of a mistake by Pagola. 2-2: (42’) David, with a header from a free kick taken by Ximo. 3-2: (89’) Kike López, from a cross ball passed by Luismi Loro.

 INCIDENTS Played in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium with the grounds in perfect condition. On a sunny morning with a light breeze with 14.329 spectators. Teh fan club Frente Blanquiazul had an enormous Tfio which said " We support our parents club and defend our local team".



Video from Copis sending off

Play off time

Well here we are in spite of a very irregular season the team is second in their group and have made the playoffs. for those who are not sure how this works we will not play two legged agaisnt a fourth position team who is not in our group. This means we will play either Real Jaen, Badalona or SD Amorebieta

The last of these has just come up from the third division, they were founded in 1935 and are 19km from Bilbao in the Basque region. They play in the Municipal grounds in Urritxe, which seats 3000 spectators and has grass  on the ground. This is possibly the Cinderella of the teams but it means they have nothing to lose and everything to play for.

C.F. Badalona was founded in 1903 and is the team for the town whose name it holds. Badalona is 10Km outside Barcelona so by far the easiest to reach from here. It's stadium seats 10.000 spectators but it is astroturf.

The last possibility is Real Jaen who were founded 1922, The Andaluz team have played three seasons in La Liga and  were last in 2A in  the 2000/01 season. Their games are played in the the Nuevo Estadio De La Victoria which is grass and holds 12.569 spectators.

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The draw starts at 3.30 Tenerife time so we will know more later