{"id":360,"date":"2015-07-20T09:35:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T08:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2016-10-26T20:30:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T19:30:26","slug":"real-life-the-tale-of-torrevieja-carlos-causes-cordoba-concern-briefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/2015\/07\/real-life-the-tale-of-torrevieja-carlos-causes-cordoba-concern-briefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Life: The Tale of Torrevieja : Carlos causes Cordoba concern, briefly"},"content":{"rendered":"
Folks, welcome to a new feature on The Higher Tempo Press. \u00a0As some of you maybe aware, I am also a director of a little Spanish football club called CD Torrevieja. \u00a0I got involved back in February, predominantly to help them start getting fans coming through the gate – a decade ago the players would run out to crowds of 2000 plus, today it is well under 1000. \u00a0I’ll be writing about the club as the season goes on, and last Saturday we entertained Cordoba CF (relegated from La Liga) in our first pre-season friendly.<\/p>\n
Carlos causes Corboba concern, briefly : CD Torrevieja 1 – 3 Cordoba CF<\/p>\n
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With Elche and Hull City U21’s to come this week, it seems that the punishment for getting relegated from the top flight is a match against CD Torrevieja at El Vicente Garcia.\u00a0 Cordoba, unable to survive in La Liga last season, arrived fresh from a win against Orihuela in the week.\u00a0 For Torrevieja, this was the first outing for a much changed squad just five days into their pre-season training.<\/p>\n
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El Vicente Garcia’s numbers were swelled, not just down to the size of the Cordoba support staff, but the anticipation of seeing how players that had competed against the likes of Messi, Suarez, Neymar, Ronaldo and Bale would fare against the talents of Vicente, Jorge, Rafa Gomez and Luis Carlos.\u00a0 Those in attendance will have noticed the first stage of a minor facelift for the old stadium.\u00a0 The morning had been spent with a group of local non-Spanish fans working alongside two members of the CD Torrevieja board in some impromptu painting and decorating of the main entrance.\u00a0 It was great to see local community support, ranging from the donation of paint from James Cullen at Quesada Colours through to volunteers that cracked on, paint brush in hand.<\/p>\n
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Torrevieja lined up with a mix of faces from last season and some of the new signings made by manager Pedreno.\u00a0 Many eyes were to be on Martin, back from a long term injury, Carrasco, dropping deeper into a midfield role at the age of 37 and Juanfran, top scorer for the last three seasons in three different clubs promoted from the Tercera divisions.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Torrevieja started the game brightly, just five minutes were gone when Luis Carlos, returning from Novelda, was played in by Rafa Gomez only to see his shot saved at the near post.\u00a0 From the resulting corner Martin had a fine chance to open the scoring but was unable to make contact with the ball.\u00a0 Minutes later Cordoba had their first sight of goal, a well hit strike by Adri Cuevas was beaten away by Oscar.\u00a0 Paul thought he had put the visitors ahead midway through the first period, only to see his goal disallowed by a late flag from the assistant referee.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The first twenty minutes was played at a high tempo, Torrevieja’s front four rotating and changing positions at will.\u00a0 Cordoba grew into the game quickly, forcing Torrevieja to play a little more direct making it pretty easy for the experienced Corboba defenders.<\/p>\n