The Tenerife Herald
Squad14 Apr 2031
Gastón Pérez damages knee ligaments — 72 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 72 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad14 Apr 2031
Andrés Prieto breaks a bone — 28 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings14 Apr 2031
Jesús Iglesias, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.70
A mark of 7.70 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings14 Apr 2031
Patrick Soko, 33, rolls back the years — 8.29
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.29 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad14 Apr 2031
Tempers go at Tenerife
Iván Chapela was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match12 Apr 2031
Tenerife see off Eibar
Three points for Tenerife, 2‑1 the final word against Eibar in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces14 Apr 2031
One of their own: Jesús Iglesias
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market14 Apr 2031
Ignacio Alastra has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Tenerife can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad14 Apr 2031
Tenerife count the cost of losing Pablo Cano
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The dugout Lucas Ribeiro left out for the big one
- The dugout Ricardo Gallardo has his say
- The dugout Jordi Escobar knocks on the manager’s door