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Last updated on Monday November 2nd 2009
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News about CD Tenerife and reports on recent games
Details of Tenerife's league position
A list of this season's goal scorers
News about other teams I am interested in
LATEST NEWS as at Monday November 2nd
VILLARREAL BEAT US 5-0
COPA DEL REY - 2-1 DEFEAT IN FIRST LEG
TENERIFE WIN THE "MUST WIN" GAME AT HOME TO XEREZ 1-0
SPREADING THE TENERIFE MESSAGE TO STOKE
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The current weather at Tenerife's
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Another chance to register our first away win of the season: Villarreal v Tenerife: 01/11/2009: 5-0
It's a real surprise that this week's opponents were in the bottom three so I expected a tough game but predicted a 2-1 win for us so I was completely wrong.
More on this game soon.
Celta de Vigo are our opponenets in a two legged cup match (first leg - Celta 2 Tenerife 1)
In the Copa del Rey (Spanish Cup) we play Celta de Vigo from the Segunda División (currently in one of the releagation places with 7 points from 8 games) in a two-legged match away on Wednesday 28th October and at home on Tuesday 10th November.
Celta beat Girona 3-1 away in the previous round.
In the first leg in Vigo we went 2-0 down but got an away goal and a much better chance of winning the round when Richi (44m) converted an Ayoze free kick after the Celta goalie failed to intercept it.
"Must win" game against lowly opponents: Tenerife v Xerez 15/10/2009: 1-0
Xerez pipped us to the championship last season but our fellow promoted club are lying in the relegation zone at the moment. However, they were just one point behind us at the start of play so this home game really was a "must win". My prediction was 3-0 but we didn't
take all our chances and scored just the once through Alfaro (73m) who converted a pass from Omar by scoring with a header.
More on this game here soon.
Alfaro scores our first away goal of the season but we still lose: Espanyol v Tenerife 18/10/2009: 2-1
We conceded an early goal to Iván Alonso (11m), who broke awaythrough the defence to score, but Alfaro (15m) shot across goal to equalise just a few minutes later with our first away goal of the season.
Unfortunately, this did not lead to our first point of the season as Iván Alonso (60m) got another goal in the second half.
Both our opponenets goals looked to be due to poor defending.
Here is a video of the highlights:
Spreading the message
In this picture I am with my friend Carlos Padrón at Stoke's Britannia Stadium before watching the home team beat West Ham 2-1 on Saturday 17th October, 2009.
Here I am at the top of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) the highest mountain in Wales on a miserable wet day, in strong winds, surrounded by cloud but telling the World that "Somos De Primera"
(We are in the Primera División).
I'm not sure that the man I got to take the picture knew what was going on but he kindly did the job for me.
If anyone else has any Tenerife related photos in unusual places please let me have them to put on this site.
2009-2010 Fixtures
The fixtures for the new season started with an away game in Zaragoza on 30th August with our first home game on 13th September against
Osasuna. There was no game on 6th September as this was an international weekend. I have a page of the complete fixture list (which will be updated with scores, scorers, attendances and links to videos of match highlights)
and, thanks to my friend Carlos Padrón, they are here for easy reference for the moment (dates in blue are midweek games):
and the fixtures for all teams can be seen at:
Remaining away games easy to get to by plane from the UK include Getafe (in Madrid's suburbs - 13th December),
Alméria (17th January, Málaga (28th March), Sevilla (4th April), Atlético de Madrid (25th April), Barcelona (Wednesday - 5th May) and Valencia (last game of the season - 16th May).
Remember that games may change from Sundays or Wednesdays to Saturday or Tuesday to suit television or because opponenets have a Champions League fixture the following week (as Real Madrid do after our
home game with them). Also beware that tickets for games at Real Madrid and Barcelona won't be easy to obtain.
Video celebrates Armada Sur during the promotion season.
Chris Todd of Armada Sur has put together this brilliant video compilation of photos from last season, the celebrations after promotion, etc. Enjoy it while we
anticipate the season to come - ¡Somos de Primera!
CD Tenerife B are promoted to Segunda B División for the 2009/2010 season
CD Tenerife B have been promoted to the Spanish 2B División. This was due to the relegation due to financial problems of UD Fuerteventura this week who owed
820,000 euros and have been forced to drop a league. As Tenerife B finished last season as the Champions of the Third division they have been
promoted despite losing their play off final.
Clubs n the Segunda B include historic clubs like Real Oviedo and Logrones as well as Universidad de Las Palmas who Cristo Marrero now
plays for.
Thanks to Chris Todd for this news.
Youngsters miss out on promotion to Segunda B (but see good news above): Tenerife B v Sporting Mahon 28/06/2009: 0-1 (1-3 on aggresgate)
Tenerife B, which is effectively the youth team, failed to come through the final game of the play-offs with the win they needed to get promoted to the Segunda B División. In Spain, "reserve" teams can play in
the same pyramid as the first team as long as they don't join them in the same league or overtake them by getting promoted when the main team gets relegated.
In recent years we have played Sevilla Atlético and Real Madrid Castilla in the Segunda División whilst their main teams were in the Primera.
Our own B team was trying to get in to the regionalised four league Segunda B División from the Tercera but lost to a much older and more expereienced Mahon team. Tenerife hit the post
in the first half and played quite well according to friends who were there but they fell away in the second half, playing some long ball football and the better team won.
Still it will be good experience for our younger players and this
reserve team (known as the "cantera" in Spanish which literally means quarry in English). The cantera has provided us with some good players for the
first team in recent years such as Ayoze, Cristo Marrero, Iriome, Ricardo and Vitolo.
Tenerife star Juanlu Hens now has his own website
Click on the picture and then on "Entrar" to go to it:
PROMOTED !!!!!! : Girona v Tenerife 13/06/2009: 0-1
Tenerife played this vital game at the same time as our three rivals for promotion needing just one point to go up and all three to be sure of staying top of the table
regardless of other results.
Over a thousand of us were there to watch as Dani Kome (40m) scored the goal that clinched promotion for us despite the three other teams all winning.
There are pictures and comments about this match on a special page which you can go to by clicking here and a video of the match is below:
Here's a video showing how we celebrated - if you knew where I was you could see me holding up my "Somos de Primera" scarf at about 8m 30s into the video and a quick view of Carlos a few seconds later:
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