Luis Miguel Ramis, before the derby. (DEPORPRESS)
Deporpress Editorial | Ramis: “Canaries or not, we all defend this shirt.” The coach of Tenerife Sports Club He reflected this Thursday, at a press conference prior to the visit to Deportivo Alavés, about the intensity and commitment shown by his players during the last derby, and sent a strong message towards the lower presence of youth players in the squad, compared to Las Palmas .
From the yellow side, ‘canaridad’ was boasted as a plus to take into account to unevent the derby, but despite not starting with any Canarian player in the starting eleven, Tenerife overwhelmed the rival throughout the first half. Ramis took advantage of today to ask that we not be “old” when talking about this aspect. “Football is much broader than that. What the fans want is for their team to win, hopefully with people from their homeland, but on Saturday we saw players from the Canary Islands and not and everyone, everyone; Canary Islanders or not, they were united by the same cause: to defend this shirt as if it were the last game,” he indicated, to close his speech.
Illusion and canary
“This comes and goes every week. It left me the first day, then six months later, then I came back…I understand all these situations. We have to always look forward. What excites me is that this serves to see environments like Saturday’s and the other remains in the background. One of the objectives of the coaching staff and the players is to excite people. We try to be honest and transparent, whether things go well or badly. The only thing I will not allow is for someone to wear this shirt without enthusiasm. Welcome to last Saturday. We all want to have people from our land on our team, but let’s not be old. Football is much broader than that. What the fans want is for their team to win, hopefully with people from their homeland, but on Saturday we saw players from the Canary Islands and not and everyone, everyone; Canary Islanders or not, they were united by the same cause: to defend this shirt as if it were the last game. And that is what I want in every game, whatever their name is.”
Bravery against Las Palmas
“I wouldn’t call it bravery. We were convinced, we tried to be brave every game. Brave is not only being strong in the opponent’s area, it is also being strong near your own goal. We were determined and convinced of what we had to do. It’s true that everything you have in your head and expect to happen is reinforced when what happened in the first five minutes happens and it happens to your opponent. But this happens very rarely. If in those five minutes we are 1-0 and at half-time you go like this or 2-0, surely the game would have changed. The 2-0 after five minutes helped a lot but normally games don’t go that way.”
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