The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, announced during the San Ginés wrestling match, held on Saturday afternoon on El Reducto beach, that Canarian wrestling will now be very present in Arrecife.
The mayor presided this Thursday over the presentation of the new men's Canarian Wrestling club TiteNaos (an acronym that combines the names of Titerroy and Puerto de Naos). This club is born with the support and impulse of the Arrecife City Council, through Deportes Arrecife.
Yonathan de León, son and nephew of great wrestlers, has welcomed the birth of this club, which coincides with almost three decades of disappearance of men's wrestling clubs in the capital of Lanzarote. The head of the new CL TiteNaos is Enrique Elvira, a prominent former wrestler very attached to Canarian wrestling and the city of Arrecife.
The Councilor for Sports, Eli Merino, highlighted that the Department of Sports of the City Council is working during this term on the recovery of the vernacular sports of the Canary Islands. Some clubs and fans are seeing during this term the launch of the project for the construction of a municipal wrestling ground in the capital of Lanzarote.
Within the San Ginés festivities, and during the San Ginés Wrestling Match, organized by the Department of Sports of Arrecife with the participation of the Unión Sur Yaiza clubs, Club Laguneta de Tinajo and the women's wrestling club Tinecheide, the Arrecife City Council announced the founding of this new TiteNaos club, and announced the wrestling clothes, the clothing that the Arrecife wrestlers will wear, with a design identifying the maritime history of Arrecife (due to the blue color and the mahón fabric).
The mayor, during this event held on El Reducto beach, which was attended together with the Councilor for Sports, Eli Merino, by the General Director of Autochthonous Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands, Lorena Hernández Labrador, the island councilor for Sports of the Cabildo, Juan Monzón, the deputy mayor of Arrecife, Echedey Eugenio, and the councilor Jacobo Lemes, former Canarian wrestlers, reiterated his commitment, and the Municipal Government he leads, to recover Canarian wrestling, and create new facilities for this sport, a project that is underway.
Already during last summer the program of the San Ginés Festivities had Canarian wrestling in the sports program, and in this 2025 Canarian wrestling shines again with the wrestling match between Unión Sur Yaiza, Club Laguneta de Tinajo and the women's wrestling club Tinecheide, which is part of the great poster of the wrestling match for San Ginés.
And from next season, a men's team from Arrecife, after almost 30 years, will return to fight, carrying with honor the name of the city of Arrecife, cradle of great wrestlers.
