The last Canarian derby of the year between Spa Gran Canaria and Tenerife, which will be played tomorrow Thursday at the Arena (7:00 p.m.), is marked by the sporting, economic, and social instability of the Laguna team.
The situation at Clarinos is grotesquedue to economic problems that have affected a growing sporting and social crisis. On December 16, the announcement of the march of Gaby Ocete’s team After reaching an agreement to break the contract that united the player with the Laguna entity, Tirana Krivacevic and G’mrice Davis had previously done the same. Just as Kai James did, the former Spar center, who refused to put on the purple elastic against Embutidos Pajariel Bembibre, on the last day the bizarre situation arose in which two of her teammates, Andjela Delic and Terezia Palenikova refused to play against Valencia due to delays in the payment of their salaries -Delays confirmed by the Tenerife entity itself-. His first coach, César Aenas, did not appear at that match either. -has subsequently submitted its resignation unilaterally for personal reasons-, which forced the club to sit Raquel Álvarez on the bench, along with Pedro Pérez who served as second
It is not the first time that there have been delays in the payments of the players’ salaries, but this season the situation is worrying. Against Valencia, the club had to pull four academy players to complete their call-up (Lucía Bellido, María Arrieta, Valeria Ramos and Carolina García).
An error by the representation agency Gherdan Sports reported ahead of time that they are allegedly closing the incorporation of their client, the escort Maja Milijkovic, to Clarinos, to try to alleviate the loss of talent in the Laguna team.
As far as sports is concerned, the women from Tenerife landed at the Arena with a negative streak of 10 consecutive defeats, not knowing victory since the second day, on October 12, in which they beat IDK Euskotren at home (62-68).
for his part Spar Gran Canaria has a great opportunity to achieve its sixth victory of the season against its neighbors and incidentally put land in the middle with the hot zone of the table and be able to look at the privileged zone. The pupils of José Carlos Ramos They are tenth, with five wins and seven losses.
To the good timing for Petra Holesinska and Sika Konéjoins the good adaptation to the team of Rachel Hollivay and Tyler Scaife. Also the yellow ones have been reinforced with Bahamian base Valerie Nesbittwho returns to what was his home last year, to give a greater depth of wardrobe to the Gran Canarias.
