CD Tenerife was awarded this Wednesday the loyalty to its colors Carlos Ruiz Aranega. This is the oldest football player acting with the representative in the national category. The Andalusian defender spent more than 10 years at the entity, which shows the ability of a professional athlete to prolong his career beyond the ordinary.
An award for dedication. The career of Carlos Ruiz, like another famous blue and white like Aitor Sanz, is one of the examples reserved in the world of football to explain how the professional career of an athlete was able to exceed the normal when supported by physical care and the ability to improve individual technique and tactical sense.
Soccer day laborer in terms of half a dozen clubs where he played before arriving in Tenerife (Albolote, Armilla, Baza, Granada, Melilla and Ponferradina), but licensed to commit to the colors, in response to the ground -and in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, graduating from the University of Granada He also found time.
The idyll with Tenerife (and with CD Tenerife). He arrived at CD Tenerife in the summer of 2014, right after the blue and white were promoted to Hospitalet. Quique Medina’s eye did not disappoint and despite being 30 years old, he was a starter from week one. Álvaro Cervera delayed his position to place him as a central defender with Bruno -in alline of defenders to complete the flanks Moyano and Raúl Cámara– and from there he did not move: 40 titles out of 42 possible and a display of distinguished virtues in his ten seasons as albiazul: physical capacity, sense of anticipation, starting the game and good headers from set pieces.
And the commitment, on the field, in the dressing room and in his relationship with the Tenerife fans. Because if anyone introduces Carlos Ruiz Aránega it is the ability to connect with your audiencewithout any sensationalism and with all the imaginable loyalty of an athlete symbolizing, like few others, communion in the stands. Bastetano, Granada and Andalusian, can also be considered a Tenerife more, a name taken by hand that no one can argue with.
The podium of longevity. The list of longest-serving soccer players from Tenerife has been headed since May 22, 2004 by Djukic, lined up by Martín Marrero on matchday 38 of the 03/04 season (CD Tenerife, 2-Cádiz CF, 2) just as old as this Carlos Ruiz in Butarque. And another gift from Tenerife completes the Olympus: Andrés Gómez ‘Cuco’ (1926-2011), goalkeeper who, since 1951, kept the Tenerife goal for thirteen seasons before entering the Second Division, in the silver category and in ephemeral foray in the Primera of the 61/62 season. Cuco put on his gloves for the last time on November 10, 1963 —37 years, eight months and 17 days— in a CD Tenerife-Mestalla where he also left unbeaten (1-0, Justo Gilberto).
Source: La Verdad
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