The former player of CD Tenerife Suso Santana (37 years old), who is now part of the sports management of the chicharrero club, was able to wear yellow. And it’s not fake news. During his youth stage, this earthquake captivated Toni Dumpiérrez, who was part of the technical secretariat of UD Las Palmas, and he prepared a report on its physical characteristics and potential. “They paid me little attention,” joked the executive and national coach, twenty years after a movement that is difficult to assimilate. The attacker is the footballer most hated by the yellows.
The writing remained in a drawer and the terror of Teide stretched his career through Laguna, Tenerife, San Isidro, Fuerteventura, Heart of Midlothian in Scotland and returned to the blue and white club to become an icon with a bracelet for nine seasons. He reached 337 duels with Tete and when he set foot on Gran Canaria, the rain of whistles was eternal. In a Mahou Cup, he was expelled for assaulting David Simón and faced the Naciente. A life of fatal disagreements with Roque Nublo.
«It happened a long time ago, so much that I don’t remember. Suso stood out in youth and my obligation was to keep him on a short leash. Manage the entire market in a millimeter way, and yes, a letter was written about his potential before he became the player he was. He then made a career in Segunda B, passing through Raqui and Fuerteventura, as well as in Scotland. There is no need for more comments, seeing him now in yellow … ». It would be a deadly sin. Even the president Miguel Ángel Ramírez was transferred from this medium if he would sign Suso. “He will never wear the UD shirt, so that he represents Tenerife is impossible,” he assessed with a diplomatic tone.
Even Ramírez himself motivated his players by wallpapering Barranco Seco with photos of Suso and his assessments of the Canarian derby. In his career, he faced the yellows eleven times. He scored a penalty goal at Siete Palmas in 2018 and celebrated it like Iniesta at the World Cup in South Africa. Hated on one shore, loved on the other. Streets and roundabouts in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the devil in Gran Canaria. The things of the derby, which elevate the myths to the heights and point out the sinners.
Every time he touched the ball in Gran Canaria, the world fell. “I don’t know why they hate me so much,” he once rated ’10’.
The spiciness of the classic
The memory of perversion. The encyclopedia of passion. 170 days after 4-J, 26-N arrives. The UD meet this Saturday with Tenerife in the derby of pending accounts. Suso will not be there, already in an office. In the last precedent, Tete managed to prevail (1-2) and agreed to the playoff final for a place in the First Division against Juanpe and Míchel’s Girona. Finally, and without appeal, he received a football bath from the Girona team –0-0 in the first leg and 1-3 in a zero zone of panic called Heliodoro–.
The mockery, in which Suso participated, about Viera’s harangue with the famous ‘I see a lot of partying here’ ended in burial. On June 4, after thirteen years of waiting –since 2009 with Oltra–, the blue and white team once again celebrated a victory in the Siete Palmas parthenon. It was like a promotion. Champagne and digital publication on the Tenerife website with a flag nailed to Gran Canaria. For their part, at UD, an emotional communion of 25 minutes between the staff and the Naciente sector. It was the seed of the success of the subscription campaign, which has 18,000 cards. The pulse of Saturday points to the full. 32,000 souls.
That round of the playoff meant the last game for Jesé Rodríguez. Jey-M questioned Pimienta’s lack of ambition with the changes in the second half and already with the 0-2 score. The goals from Enric Gallego, who went without a yellow card in the tie after wearing his most tricky label, left the coach confused. Ramis did not hide his joy from him. “We have sent a very strong message.” On the yellow side, tears and change of cycle. El Tete also ended up jumping into the air. There was no more news from Suso or his jokes. The Saturday thing will not be a joke.
