The League denounces a section of CD Tenerife fans before Anti-Violence

The flares at the Gran Canaria Stadium (Photo: Pablo Larrea, personal account) –

B. Perez

We received a note in our newsroom from the press department of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional regarding the report of “the complaints” corresponding to days 42 of the regular championship and the semifinals of the playoff. In the letter, the football association expresses several complaints related to the actions of part of the fans of CD Tenerife both in the match against Cartagena and as the two promotion against UD Las Palmas.

Also consider the League in its report than the rest of the local fans of the second game of the playoff (the one against UD Las Palmas) behaved “adequately” during “the entire game”.

Says the following:

“The National Professional Football League sends a written complaint every week to the RFEF Competition Committee and the Anti-Violence Commission with those songs that occur in football matches that incite violence or have insulting or intolerant content. These songs are listed as prohibited behaviors and therefore punishable, both in the RFEF Sports Discipline Code and in the Legislation against violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in sport.

LaLiga makes an email box available to fans who attend matches and send their complaints, suggestions or requests in order to contribute to the fight against violence in stadiums. The address is: [email protected].

After the dispute on matchday 42 of LaLiga SmartBank and the first round of the playoff for promotion to LaLiga Santander, the following complaints have been forwarded to the above bodies:

MATCH TENERIFE – CARTAGENA….

1. In the 10th minute of the match, and with the game stopped after the referee awarded a penalty against the local team, some 200 local fans, located in the lower popular tier, sectors J and K, located behind a banner with the slogan “Blue and White Front”, They sang in a choral and coordinated way, for approximately 9 seconds, the chant, “son of a bitch, son of a bitch”, addressed to the match referee, and being accompanied by the sound of palms and a drum.

2. In the 72nd minute of the match, and with the game stopped after the referee awarded a penalty against the local team, some 200 local fans, located in the lower popular stand, sectors J and K, located behind a banner with the motto “Blanquiazul Front”, they intoned in a choral and coordinated way, for approximately 11 seconds, the chant, “son of a bitch, son of a bitch”, being accompanied by the sound of palms and a drum.

2. MATCH TENERIFE – LAS PALMAS…

1. In the 21st minute of the match, local fans, unable to determine an approximate number as the chant proceeded from different stands of the stadium, sang in a choral and coordinated manner, for approximately 8 seconds, the chant, “puta Las Palmas, puta Las palms”.

2. In the 27th minute of the match, with an away player lying on the field of play, About 150 local fans, located in the lower popular grandstand, sectors J and K, behind a banner with the motto Blue and White Front, sang in a choral and coordinated way, lasting approximately 7 seconds, the cantic, “písalo, písalo”.

3. In the 74th minute of the match, with a local player lying on the field of play after a game throw, local fans, without being able to determine an approximate number as the chant proceeded from different stands of the stadium, they sang in a choral and coordinated way, for approximately 10 seconds, the chant, “son of a bitch, son of a bitch”.

4. At minute 90+1 of the match, Local fans, unable to determine an approximate number as the chant proceeded from different stands of the stadium, sang in a choral and coordinated manner, for approximately 12 seconds, the chant, “puta Las Palmas, puta Las Palmas”.

3. MATCH LAS PALMAS- TENERIFE…

1. After the end of the first part and at the time of the withdrawal of the teams and the referee quartet towards the changing rooms, there was a widespread throwing of various small bottles of water with liquid inside, some of them provided with a stopper, in an approximate number of 10 or 12. One of them was intercepted by an away player. At that time there was no security guard in the area, nor any member of the CNP.

The club issued a message at the start of the second half asking the fans not to throw objects onto the pitch.

2. At the end of the match From the area occupied by the visiting fans, several flares were lit by visiting fans. At that time, the visiting zone was still with visiting fans occupying it.

It should be noted that the rest of the local fans present in the stadium have behaved appropriately during the match, and that the incidents described have always come from the same local area, and in one of the cases from the visiting area, concludes the report from the football association.

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