Juan Carlos Mandiá Lorenzo - new trainer

CD Tenerife & Juan Carlos Mandiá Lorenzo have reached an agreement. The trainer from Galicia will be here for the rest of the season 10/11 responsible for the first team. Mandiá will arrive tonight in the north airport at 19.15 from Madrid with Antonio Puche y Enrique Sanz, his assistants. The trainer from Lugo started his career in the youth divisions of Real Madrid, followed by CD Logroñés, Hércules CF, Real Madrid Castilla y Rácing de Santander, this last team whilst they were in the first division. The new trainer will be presented tomorrow

Xerez 2 - CD Tenerife 0

   This was the worst result possible. The result the club, the players and the management were all hoping to avoid. The result that will take this year into the club records for the worst possile start ever.
Next week is another chance to start again. A home game against a smaller team.












GAME NOTES
xerez 2
CD tenerife 0

Players
Xerez  DeportivoLledó (1), J.L. Redondo (2), Lombán (1), Moreno (1), Mendoza (1), Cordero (3), Barber (1), Pablo Redondo (1), Capi (2), José Mari (2) & Mario Bermejo (2).
Also played: Raúl Llorente (1), who came on for Capi (71'), Héctor Font (1) for Pablo Redondo (77') & Óscar Díaz (1) for José Mari (84').
CD Tenerife: Aragoneses, Bertrán, Melli, Pablo Sicilia, Beranger, Mikel Alonso, Ricardo, Hidalgo, Natalio, Kome & Nino.
Also played:  Juanlu entró por Hidalgo (51'); Omar por Kome (51') e Iriome por Natalio (68').
REFEREE: Julio Amoedo Chas (1), from the Madrid school of refs., assisted by Enrique José Ramos Ferreiros & Roberto Vázquez Alvite. Yellow cards for  Bertrán (9'), Natalio (19'), Mendoza (25'), Capi (45'), Aragoneses (62'), Iriome (77'), Héctor Font (86') y Nino (92').
GOALS 1-0 (20'): José Mari headed in the net a centre by  Redondo.2-0 (27'): Cordero culmina de tiro cruzado una pared con Bermejo.
INCIDENTS
Fifth round in the Liga Adelante, played in the Chapín stadium in front of 10.766 espectadores. The island players wore their third green strip. The match was offered by Gol Televisión & Canal Plus Liga.  Antonio Padrón, club manager Juan Amador and sports director Santiago Llorente were there to represent the club. Alejandro Alfaro was in the stadium to watch the game by his ex-collegues.

The week of the long knives

The team are on their way to Xerez via Sevilla but the week has been a struggle. From last Saturdays crushing loss against Celta de Vigo, Gonzalo Arconada's sacking on Monday after allowing him to train the team Monday morning, two days training with second team coach Alfredo Merino, to the trip of all eighteen available players today for tomorrows match.
Their last training session will be this afternoon at 5pm in the Instalaciones Deportivas Montecastillo. The players present are Luis García, Sergio Aragoneses, Marc Bertrán, Aitor Núñez, Carlos Bellvís, Pablo Sicilia, Gregory Beranger, Melli, Ezequiel Luna, Antonio Hidalgo, Ricardo León, Omar Ramos, Juanlu Hens, Mikel Alonso, Iriome, Nino, Natalio & Dani Kome.

When interviewed on Wednesday afternoon after training Alfredo Merino trainer of the CDT second team who haven't been beaten this season stated,he hoped the team would score their first points in the Chapin stadium.

“In principal we need to start this new stage with pride. It is a real honour to be the CD Tenerife coach. If we can score the three points then things will look different. With a change of trainer a group can be reactivated and here is no different. I see the players with a need to prove themselves”, he started.“I don't have a magic wand. I am worried about the players not only as players but as people. To tell you now about tactics seems surreal. The players seem happy and keen to play. Finally the players are the ones who are responsible on the field. We need to talk about us, our first rival is us. They need to get out there and show what great players they are. Everyone here believes in them. I want to see deeds not words”, Merino added.
“I am here in CD Tenerife to help where I can. Right now that is the first team and I hope we are going to score their first three points. I need to be realistic my work here could finish on Sunday or Monday or next week. But what I see is that I am here to help the club to the best of my abilities where they see fit.perhaps we have looked too much to the end of the season and not we need to centre on how we will get there week by week. The players are human and make mistakes too.”, the trainer explained.
“Logically there will be changes, to put out Saturday's team again wouldn't be right. The players need to fight for their places. We need to look for each players good points not the weakness of our oposition”, he finished.
What I see is a man with a difficult job, he needs to motivate 18 players who have seen no win since the season start. Players whose coach blamed them for playing badly even when it was not just their fault. A job that has no clear dates and could end at any moment. This job he also needs to share with the job of training the second team who are on a good run and it is to be hoped this can be maintained. I wish him the very best of luck and three points tomorrow night for all of us.

Marc Bertrán, CD Tenerife defender and captain, said on Thursday in an interview in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium “For us the most important thing is to score points. We hope this change will reactivate the team. We want to play a good game, that things go well and achieve our first points. Which at this date in the competition is really important.”.

The blue and white club shop is now selling shirts for 5 and 10 euros until Saturday lunchtime. This sounds like the Luanvi outfits will be available from Monday onwards.

Before he left the island ex-trainer Gonzalo Arconada said some very negative things about one of his assistant coaches Toño. A man who has been with the team as a player and later over the last several years as assistant coach. He accused him of being a sneak and a title-tattle having said the day before he would not be the one to throw S**t. Not a elegant way to end your career here in Tenerife.

Strange times

In times of crisis it is easy to be confused. We sat on the 28th of August in front of our televisions excited to see Tenerife start against Girona. We expected to win, we were candidates for the highest positions in the twenty available. We could compete with the best and expected to have to fight Betis. And here we are 20 days later having taken part in some of the worst history the club has ever seen. The fans are blown away by the events. There has been only deception disgust and discredit. When a team falls from great heights like this it is normal to doubt everything and everybody. In consequence it is hard to know what are the good points. Did Arconada destroy a great team or once we have a new trainer will new problems surface? This is the question.
The answer will only be proved with the passing of time. Arconada needs to go, this is evident, perhaps the only thing everyone is agreed on. With his sacking, late -because the terrible scenes in the stadium on Saturday could have been missed and three points saved-, opens the only hope for a way forward. The club needs to find the right coach, a man who will give the players values, who helps the players play to the best of their abilities and helps them hide their difficulties (the absence of a defensive midfielder has been shown), and who can lead the squad into being a functioning group. It needs to be done. And if then we don't go up we can talk......
Certainly Arconada, part failure, part victim of "post" Oltraism, shouldn't have trained today. This was just another unnecessary cruelty.


Translated from El Dia Newspaper

Bye bye Gonzalo Arconada .

As it had been predicted by the newspapaers and forums yesterday Gonzalo Arconada has been sacked as the trainer of the first team with his assistants Ramón Eizmendi y Sergi Pérez.
The club has stated they apreciated the threes work and professionalism during their time with the club and hope they will have personal and professional luck in the future. 
As a tempoary measure until a new trainer arrives Alfredo Merino,coach of the second team will coach the first team assisted by Antonio Hernández ‘Toño’.

Agenda for the week 20 - 26 September 2010

Hopefully there will be a wind of change this week. Finally I am not sure if a change of trainer will help but if this is not available hopefully the players will work towards a better result.

         

Agenda for the week 20 - 26   September  2010

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Day	Time	Place	Activity
Monday	10.00	El Mundialito	Training
Tuesday	10.00	El Mundialito	Training
Wednesday	10.00	Heliodoro	Training
Wednesday	-	Heliodoro	Press conference with Gonzalo Arconada
Wednesday	-	Heliodoro	List of players for the game Xerez CD-CD Tenerife
Thursday	Morning	-	Journey to Sevilla
Thursday	Mid-day	-	Trip by bus to Jerez
Thursday	Afternoon	NH Jerez	Stay in Xerez
Thursday	Afternoon	Jerez	Training
Friday	Morning	Jerez	Training
Friday	20.00	Chapín	Xerez CD-CD Tenerife
Saturday	Morning	-	Trip by bus to Sevilla
Saturday	Mid-day	San Pablo Airport	Flight Sevilla-Tenerife

4th league loss this season

 The fans had hoped this would be the game which turned the season around. Their displeasure could be heard or not. The Frente Blanquiazul started the game with a silent protest with both not singing and sitting down. Towards the end of the game when the loss was clear there were calls to the president for a solution, for Arconada to go and then finally the stadium called for Oltra.

 
Game notes
0 - CD Tenerife: Sergio Aragoneses; Marc Bertrán, Melli, Pablo Sicilia, Beranger; Juanlu (Iriome, min. 63), Ricardo, Antonio Hidalgo (Mikel Alonso, min. 46), Omar (Kome, min. 46); Natalio & Nino.
2 - RC Celta de Vigo: Falcón; Hugo Mallo, Catalá, Jonathan Villa, Roberto Lago; Alex López, López Garai, Bustos, De Lucas (Joan Tomás, min. 78); Trashoras (Papadopoulos, min. 71) & David Rodríguez (Michu, min. 84).
Goals: 0-1, min. 13: Trashorras, from a penalty. 0-2, min. 25: Catalá.
Referee: Pedro Jesús Pérez Montero (Form Andalucia). Yellow cards for local players Juanlu, Melli, Pablo Sicilia, Nino, Beranguer y Marc Bertrán, and for visitors Hugo Mallo y Roberto Lago.
Incidents: The game was played in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium infront of 14.370 spectators.