After the victories of Sporting de Gijón and Real Zaragoza, the CD Tenerife has consummated its descent to First RFEF on Saturday, In the absence of three days to play, after a disastrous year in the sports plane sponsored by an institutional instability that has cost the sinking of a historic of the Second Division.
With 35 points in 38 days, at the expense of his game this Sunday against the also descended Racing de Ferrol, he CD Tenerife He returns to the third category of national football twelve years later after adding eight victories, eleven draws and nineteen losses, being the third club of LaLiga Hypermotion With more lost meetings.
Nor has it helped the inability to add far from the island: a single victory, five draws and thirteen losses for a balance of 8/57 points.
The waters were already revolted after the end of the 2023-2024 season when, led by Asier Garitano, They wandered through the middle table after a second round and with the first criticisms towards the maximum shareholder of the club, José Miguel Garrido, and his sports direction made up of Juan Guerrero and Mauro Pérez.
Arriving in summer, the club hired Óscar Cano, that came from descending to Sabadell to Second RFEF, to lead a Tenerife who suffered the traumatic marches of Juan Soriano and Álex Corredera in addition to Loïc Williamsbut that was made property with Luismi Cruz and signed Salvi Carrasco, Yussi Diarra, Maikel Mesa, prior payment of 500,000 euros, Juande, Yanís, Adrián Guerrero, Álex Cantero, Josep Gayà and Rubén Alves.
In spite Pepe Mel to the blue and white bench, which slightly improved the numbers of his predecessor but left the team as a colist with just twelve points and only two victories.
In an irrespirable climate, the stands of Heliodoro Rodríguez López were a clamor and turned to the box to claim explanations and decisions to a Board of Directors led by Paulino Rivero but controlled from London by Garrido and on the island by Santiago Pozas and Juan Guerrero.
On December 18, 2024, Tenerife glimpsed a small nail to grab after taking command by Rayco García After a General Meeting of Shareholders from Tenerife where local businessmen Miguel Concepción, Amid Achí and Conrado González wove a strategy with Garcia to snatch the power of Garrido and cease the counselors Pozas and Guerrero.
The struggle for the power of CD Tenerife He did not end there and focused on a new general meeting in February, which had to be held in the second call, and that concluded with the march of Paulino Rivero as president, which would be replaced later by José Daniel Díaz, the dismissal of vice president Samuel Gómez and the decision to adopt social responsibility measures against several former counselors for alleged budgetary laps.
He Advice He was then formed by Rayco García, the president of the club, José Daniel Díaz, Ayoze García, in charge of Vice President, Octavio Cabrera and Francisco Miguel Heredia, whom Felipe Miñambres joined in April, although without management capacity until the 2025-2026 season, where he will exercise as general director of the entity.
The stage of Garrido In the CD Tenerife left the clubs of the club extremely diminished, which caused the team to barely be reinforced in the January market, a low -level squad for the category with signings that have not had prominence and that have left the poor work of the sports direction, commanded by Mauro Pérez and guarded by Juan Guerrero.
Nor did the drastic level dowar of heavyweights of the template help like Ángel Rodríguez, With just a goal in LaLiga Hypermotion, Waldo Rubio, Enric Gallego or José León and Fernando Medrano in Defense, who together with the error in the signings of Marlos Moreno, Juande Ramos, Maikel Mesa, underutilized for his cost, or Rubén Alves, who left the workforce in January heading to Córdoba.
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The return of another exblanquiazul to the bench, this time Álvaro Cervera, He insufflated from encouragement to a hobby that, at times, believed in salvation after a streak of four victories in five games between March and April, but a streak of four draws in a row, the results of others and a series of questionable arbitrations, they sank Tenerife into their very small possibilities.
To the only joy of the Tenerife fans, Cervera will continue and command the ship of the Tenerife in Primera RFEFwith Manu Guill and Felipe Miñambres under the sports plot of the club, which will have to face a deep restructuring of the workforce with the aim of ascending, taking advantage of financial aid by descent, and abandoning semiprofessional football.
