The Canarian Wrestling Women’s Regional League generates controversies. In principle, from the poster of 11 registered teams, five fall out, specifically the representatives of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. As reported yesterday in a statement by the Canarian Federation, the four Tenerife clubs (Benchomo, Guamasa, Las Adelfas and Chacayca), plus CL Tenerife from La Palma, have informed the federative body that they do not wish to participate for the that they consider a discriminatory treatment with the La Palma club, as it has not been authorized to participate in the Tenerife Women’s League.
In addition to these teams, the competition poster includes Santa Rita, from Gran Canaria; the Unión Sur Yaiza and La Laguneta Tinajo, from Lanzarote; and the Saladar de Jandía, Rosario and Maxorata, in Fuerteventura.
On January 5, the Canarian Federation informed the respective island federations and the 11 teams of the opening of the period for processing the registration for the Women’s Regional League, whose start date was scheduled for this Sunday. Once the participating clubs have been confirmed and a calendar has been drawn up, it will be sent to the teams so that they can, where appropriate, make changes and then communicate the final calendar.
But on Friday, January 21, the Tenerife player published on her social networks the organization of an inter-island competition called Liga Caixabank de Tenerife, in which four clubs from Tenerife and one from La Palma would participate.
Previously, on January 20, the Insular Federation of La Palma had informed the Regional Federation that Tenerife had invited Tenerife to participate in their competition, requesting approval and authorization.
La Canaria replied that “it was not appropriate”, since the Insular de Tenerife does not have the power to organize an inter-island league. “This is the reason for the refusal to grant permission to the Ternecina Club, and not others that can be invoked and that could try to pass themselves off as discriminatory and that do not exist,” announces the Regional statement.
discriminatory treatment
The resignation of the clubs from Tenerife and the palmero from the Regional League then occurs, arguing discriminatory treatment with Ternecina. According to La Canaria, “the discrimination to which these clubs allude is attributed to the comparison with the Unión Agüimes team, from the island of Gran Canaria, which participates in the island competition of Fuerteventura, making it clear that it is an identical case to that of Ternecina , when the truth is that the participation of the Unión Agüimes was agreed at a meeting of the Classification Committee held on October 1, 2021 and both the Unión Agüimes Wrestling Club and the Federation of Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura processed the applications before the Regional Federation ».
