Yesterday long lines formed at the chicharrero stadium in order to acquire the packs. Dozens of fans of the blue and white team showed up long before 9 a.m., when the agency’s office located on Heliodoro Rodríguez González street, the one on the north end, opened to ensure their presence in the great classic of the Archipelago on the neighboring island .
In fact, the first three fans arrived at the door at 11pm on Thursday, and the fourth at 4am. “That is wanting and loving some colors … And having a lot of desire,” said one of the neighbors from the door of his building between laughter and disbelief.
Within hours
The travel options, two: by boat or by plane. The 500 transfer packages plus entry by sea were sold out at 3:00 p.m. yesterday. Before, the 90s were already over by air. As 250 went directly to the federation of clubs of CD Tenerife, there are only 150 tickets left to sell to the general public – as of Monday – of the 1,000 that the yellow entity granted to the blue and white, whose presidents, Miguel Ángel Ramírez and Miguel Concepción , respectively, maintain a good relationship.
It should be noted that the number of tickets delivered by the UD is greater than in previous seasons. Except in the last one, in which there was no public in either of the two parties, the number of seats had been 700.
The speed of the chicharreros fans to be present in Gran Canaria is just one more example of the desire to derby. In the queue to access the agency there were people of all kinds. Some will go to the stadium of the eternal rival for the first time and they referred to the emotion that this supposes. This is the case of Paula Luis, Jonathan González, Eleazar González or Pedro Rodríguez, who recognized themselves as “excited” and hoping that their premiere away from home cheering for Tete would end with a triumph.
There were also veterans. Some, with up to five trips to the round island to support their «dear Tenerife», as is the case of Ricardo Pérez, who advises «tranquility because there is always some moment of fever».
All of them will appear in Gran Canaria on a round trip express trip and with a derby in between. The last time that a duel of maximum rivalry of the Islands was played with the public was on January 25, 2020, also in Siete Palmas, a month and a half before the pandemic stopped football and closed the fields until a few months ago.
That day UD and Tenerife tied at zero and put on a poor show. Now both teams are better, because they are in the high positions of the classification and they have the illusion of fighting for promotion to the First Division. The atmosphere is assured. The subscribers of the yellow team – some 12,000 – will not pay and another thousands will buy tickets. But from Tenerife they also sign up for the derby.
–The blue and white box adds one more point–
Tete
Amorebieta before UD
The derby is already in the spotlight, but first, CD Tenerife plays against SD Amorebieta with the aim of winning and getting ahead of UD Las Palmas to the duel of maximum Canarian rivalry
. “We have to respond to the demands of the rival, and we will not do this from the clouds. We have to go down to the grass and do it, “said Luis Miguel Ramis, coach of the
, before receiving the Basque team tomorrow. The Catalan assured that they have “all the senses” in the game this Sunday, since it will not give them “extra energy” to know that the following weekend they will play the derby with UD. «It is normal for the head to travel to that game because it is indicated on the calendar and they are important. At the level of points they add up the same, but it makes a special illusion for that rivalry, “he added. | Pf