Sunday, August 12, 2007

Those were the days of CD Tenerife

Coinciding nicely with CD Tenerife football club's birthday this week, INFOICOD NOTICIAS have unearthed a couple of classic CD Tenerife videos. This first, which sounds like it may have been recorded when the club was still young, back in 1922 (OK, in the 1940s maybe), is the Himno del C.D. Tenerife (CD Tenerife Anthem). And it's the karaoke version no less, with the words along the bottom of the screen so you can practice singing along. No, I'm not going to translate what you're singing: it's hardly Nobel Prize standard prose and half of it makes no sense anyway. :)

Video: Himno del C.D. Tenerife (CD Tenerife Anthem) Yeah, it has already provoked the comment "Por dios k es esto?" (My God what's that?) :-)

The second is highlights from the historic result at the end of the 1992-93 season. Madrid and Barça go into the last week with 57 and 56 points, respectively. Barça win their match against Real Sociedad, but Real Madrid get trounced (2-0) at Tenerife, giving the league title to Barça for the third year running.

You don't need Spanish to understand the emotions in the commentary!

Those were the days ... When CD Tenerife played with the "big boys" in the Primera and, before every Canarian who wasn't already a Madrid or Barça fan learned how to pronounce "Manchester United". :)

Documentales: Que marivillosos años del Club Deportivo Tenerife

It never occurred to me to look for CD Tenerife videos before, but there are quite a lot more related ones at YouTube. Another one I spotted was this Brief history of Tenerife Fan Club, Armada Sur, the expat (mainly British) supporters club that usually takes a couple of coaches to home games.

If you're a football nut, you might like to get in touch with them through the Armarda Sur website and go see one of CD Tenerife's home games while you're on the island. I've lifted the home fixtures only from Andy Woolley's 2007-2008 Fixtures list (note what he says about matches sometimes getting moved to Saturdays to fit in with the TV schedule) and put them on our calendar. I'm not including away matches, because this is a blog about Tenerife and only home matches are something to do in Tenerife.

CD Tenerife play at Heliodoro Rodríguez López in Santa Cruz.

Hey, maybe a bit more support could bring those glory days back?