The Pavilion of Sports Juan Beltrán, in the neighborhood of Las Rehoyas of The Gran Canarian palmshosted the first leg of the first tournament of soccer Tom Carby room that takes place outside Tenerifethe second leg will be played on Saturday the 30th at the Quico Cabrera municipal facilities, in the capital of Chicharrera.
This activity is promoted by the Tenerife murga Diablos Locos who in this edition have found in the critical formation Los Chacho Tu a brother and accomplice group that has gone out of its way to ensure that everything was ready at noon this Saturday, December 23, where The communicator Baby Solano, the singer Dani Santana and even a dance group were even animating the sports festival, who enlivened the rest period between the two halves of 20 minutes each.
That is the theory in a solidarity meeting where collecting toys for those most in need is just the excuse to bring together the directors of the murgas of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Carnival and of The Palms of Gran Canaria. Hence, there were several moments where the game continued while time on the screen was frozen.
If it has been novel to play the Tom Carby tournament in Las Palmas, it has also been unprecedented to contest it between murguero directors, after the previous editions in which the members of critical groups faced politicians; until Fernando Clavijo and Ángel Víctor, presidents of Canary Islands At different stages, they participated in those parties, among other political leaders.
In this edition Masi Carvajal, president of the Diablos Locos murga promoter, endorsed the request that arose last year to open the sporting event to members of criticism and parade groups from both shores. The collaboration of Javito, director of Los Chacho Tu, among others, was decisive in fulfilling the dream of more than one murguero of getting to wear the representative’s shirt. Thus, both the CD Tenerife as the UD Las Palmas They gave the murgueros groups their luggage so that they could be their representatives on the floor of the Juan Beltrán pavilion.
The match itself was a lot of fun; The first, at the end of the match, the chant “Las Palmas is First” became a reality, as the UD murgueros, for the first time they managed to come back and get ahead of Tenerife, finished 8-7.
Beyond the result, the match allowed curious combinations or hand-to-hands, from seeing the directors of Nietos de Sarymánchez and Serenquenquenes, among others, on the same team, sharing the ball, in the case of the UD team; For Tenerife the same thing happened with Masi or Tomy Carvajal, from Diablos, with Juani Padill, from Desbocados; Carlos Estévanez, from La Sonora; Tati Rodríguez, from Tras Con Tras; Lolo García, from Chinchosos…
Things in life… Kevin, who represented Bambones in the Tenerife all star murguera, opened the scoring… but with an own goal, which did not stop more than one from imagining its director, Primi Rodríguez, when he finds out that Bambones helped UD Las Palmas. Jokes aside, the Carnival councilor of the host capital, Inma Medina, traveled to the Las Rehoyas pavilion, together with the artistic director of the next edition, Josué Quevedowho had time to share with Kevin some details of the fantasy he designed for them.
Worthy of mention is the large representation of female murgueras, with Tati Rodríguez, who makes her debut at the head of Tras Con Tras and who surprised by her joviality, as is also the case with Raquel Coello, from Guachinquietas, who with her presence sells her murguero project. The best was the coexistence between murgueros at the Manuel Louis in Las Palmas, where the Carnival groups have their headquarters, which took place at the end of the match. In the former military facilities managed by the Inma Medina Chacho Tu area, it once again opened its premises; a headquarters scandal… even with a chillout area, to host the Tenerife expedition. On Saturday the 30th, the murgueros of CD Tenerife receive a visit from their counterparts from UD.
