The Federation of Supporters Clubs of the UD calls on the UD and Tenerife presidencies to agree to give up more tickets in the next derbies and avoid accessibility problems for Saturday’s game in which many fans will not be able to cheer on the yellow team with their shirt or scarf around the neck.
The 700 followers of the UD Las Palmas who will be present at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López on Saturday to savor the Canarian derby they hope that next season they will be more, much more. That at least is the intention of the Federation of Peñas, which openly requests “that the clubs give up more tickets” in the following derbies. “That both presidents agree, they are very good managers,” they highlight from the presidency of the representative entity of the UD supporters clubs.
Because in the distribution of the 700 tickets that the last seasons have been ceded between the CD Tenerife and UD Las Palmasthis year the anomaly has occurred in that 300 of them are destined for the Federation of Supporters Clubs and this body must have them registered in its registry in order to be able to distribute the tickets since they are nominative – that is, they must have the name of the person who I’m going to use it.
That is why the Ultra Nacientes and the Germán Devora supporters club could not enter the distribution of the 300 tickets that go to the Supporters Clubs Federation. The first, because they are not registered in Aficiones Unidas – the documentary relationship that LaLiga uses with the official supporters clubs in Spain – as they do not want to give up their personal data. The latter, “because they left the Federation”, as Guacimara Sosa, president of the Federation, explains and who clarifies: “The doors are open to return.”
In the event that the number of tickets available to yellow fans is increased, “these problems could be solved,” they argue from the Federation.
For now, each of the 25 registered supporters clubs received a maximum of fifteen tickets in the distribution. Being the only ones that asked for more tickets, without being reciprocated, the Yellow Tide, the rock jonathan viera and Yellows x the World.
So that, yellow will again flood the stands that are located between Herradura and San Sebastián in the upper area –as can be seen in the image below this text–, but with one caveat: this year there will be 700 yes or yes.
Supporters who are not in the visiting area may not wear clothing or anything related to UD
An obligation that is given by the State Security Forces and Corps, which have declared the match High Risk and under the conditions imposed on the fans of the yellow team, they are prevented from opening the fenced area so that fans who can enter can enter. They bought tickets in the nearby stands and in this way they could increase the number of the UD fans.
Of course, the only parishioners of Las Palmas who will be able to wear clothing and emblems of the yellow club will be those who are located in this stand.
Having said that, UD fans who decide to buy a ticket at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López ticket office on their own, will not be able to access the chicharrero venue with the Las Palmas shirt, or with scarves, or any other garment that refers to the Tenerife rival.
In addition, in this same sense, the security of the Tenerife fiefdom prevents the entry of any material with which some tifo can be organized in the stands of the visiting fans, as well as banners of the yellow team. “There will be a lot of scarfing and the usual small flags, but little else, they won’t let us in,” they glimpse from the Federation.
Scarves that will be waving in the wind from early Saturday morning when the bus route that picks up the 300 yellow fans leaves from Neighborhood at 8:30 a.m., continue through the airport to pick up the Lanzarote supporters club, make a stop at the Gran Canaria Stadium and follow up Agaete stopping at bathhouses and San Andrés, before the ship leaves for Santa Cruz de Tenerife at 12:30 p.m. and returns the same day at 9:00 p.m.
For those who are already in Tenerife waiting for the boat, at 1:45 p.m. the majority of fans are scheduled to meet at the Calisthenics Park that connects port with the Tenerife Cabildo and from there the Yellow Tide began to be created for the Heliodoro Rodríguez López, on foot and not in buses, and escorted by the National Police until the game began at 5:30 p.m.
2,700 euros for the mosaic of kirian in the stadium
The Federation of Supporters Clubs of the UD, in turn, claims its degree of relevance within the club’s environment, given that many of the initiatives carried out in the matches are of its own responsibility and with the derived economic costs. In this regard, they highlight that the mosaic that was created in the stands of the Gran Canaria Stadium for the derby of the first round of the league, with the letters of Kirian’s name to honor him for his fight with Hodgkin’s lymphoma -which already left behind-, “everything ran at the Federation’s cost and it was 2,700 euros,” explains the organization’s directive. Likewise, they want to reflect that other initiatives such as the Yellow Tide that runs through the streets of Santa Cruz de Tenerife before the island derby is also their idea. On the other hand, they remember that they carry out a representative work of the island club in other solidarity actions such as the one that occurred last season with the La Palma volcano. All of this thanks to the commitment of people like Jazmina Rodríguez from the David García peña or Gustavo Cabrera. | DR
