Fabio Gonzalez will play for CD Tenerife after terminating his contract with UD Las Palmas.. The club announced the agreement today. One of the captains and youth players of the club, who played 127 games in the main team, ends his game with a yellow card. His future is with CD Tenerife, who will announce his signing in the next few hours.Fabio will try his luck in the eternal competition after not enjoying minutes in his own team. A strange movement, but repeated throughout history. There are many players who have played for UD Las Palmas and CD Tenerife, even making the direct flight between the islands.
Modern football, so fast and global, means that any football player can pursue his career anywhere in the world. That’s why it’s harder to see that jump between rival teams like UD and Tete. The last to cross the island was Tyrone. The young yellow promise arrived in the first team at a very young age, but he never found a place for himself at UD. After several transfers to Baracaldo and Huesca, he swapped the shirt of UD Las Palmas for CD Tenerife in the 2016-17 season.I have nothing but words of gratitude for UD, which made it very easy for me to sign with Tenerife“, he admitted on the day of his presentation with chichareros.
But This path that Fabio is going to take now was started by such historical figures as Justo Gilberto, Mame Leon, Martin Marrero or Jose Juan in the 60s.. A simpler path for a Canarian footballer who saw an opportunity to develop in the other island without “immigrating” to the peninsula. Manolo López “El gato de Arucas” left at 28 to play in EuroTete. He left the Isle of Teide in the First Division for promotion to the Second Division with Las Palmas in ’96. Eduardo Ramos, Toni Robaina and Alexis Suarez also experienced Tenerife’s golden age in the nineties;while Las Palmas suffered a Second B. Alex Castro and Beranger also took a direct boat between Agaete and Santa Cruz.
Mikel Mesa’s Repentance
The most famous and most recent shirt change, although not a direct signing between the clubs, has been Michael Mesa. The resident of Tenerife, who became the captain of UD Las Palmas, starred in one of the series last summer. A photo of him kissing the UD Las Palmas shield went viral in Spain. Also his statements in 2018, admitting the distance he felt from the team to his homeland.“I identify with UD, and Tenerife is a club that doesn’t matter to me.”. The midfielder had to apologize when it introduced the blue-white team last July.