Transfer market, liveThe 5 most relevant sports news this morningSegundo Almeida has a birthdayThe oldest radio host in the Canary Islands is Segundo Almeida.UD Las Palmas highlighted this Monday that he is already an 89-year-old chicken.He is about the announcer with more than 1,300 matches broadcast live and the father of a school of sagacious professionals from the world of radio in the archipelago that ranges from football to Canarian wrestling.Almeida began in the world of radio from the state-owned RNE, which in the islands was called Radio Atlántico and later became RCE.With a marked Canarian character and close even to a generation of professionals who demanded the use of the insular accent and its canarisms to differentiate themselves from the peninsular accent, Almeida was capable of bringing out the colors of anyone who violated his maxim of treating Canarian clubs from superiority complexes for things from a distance.We are talking about a period where it is not like now that the Peninsula is questioning traveling to the Canary Islands to play.So in Las Palmas there were 92 nightclubs in 1972, tourism overflowing with joy and the islands allowed you to buy without franchises.This was quite an incentive for supporters and fans of teams like Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid or Zaragoza.Almeida was born on October 17, 1933 in Moya and studied at Colegio La Salle de Arucas.20 years later he was in a radio group in Las Palmas with the OJE and that allowed him to train at EAJ Radio Las Palmas and Radio Atlántico.He did theater on the radio with Bernardo de la Torre Barceló on works of Spanish and universal literature.In 1960 and peak he went on to lead the sports radio in Las Palmas by the arrival of Pascual Calabuig to TVE Canarias.From January 1968 he obtained an official degree and on February 4 he started on Radio Atlántico with the Sabadell Las Palmas party on Radio Atlántico.A month later Las Palmas beat Bilbao.In December 1969 he broadcast a Las Palmas-Barcelona match, which the islanders won.It is a time when the signal of the Las Palmas matches on the Peninsula did not reach the islands live on TVE.The emotion of the radio that Almeida transmitted and his phrases full of canarismos was the umbilical cord that united the fans with reality through the radio waves when Canarian teams in UEFA moved to Turin, Bratislava or Enschede.Antonio Ayala wrote in 'El Eco de Canarias' in September 1972: "From the Benito Villamarín Stadium, in Seville, the incidents of the match will reach the Canarian radio listeners through the voice of their special envoy sports announcer Segundo Almeida. On the other hand , we will say that Radio Atlántico —making a great effort, in a valuable informative display—, will also broadcast next Wednesday, the 13th, the match that the Las Palmas Sports Union will play against Torino, in the Italian city of Turin, which will begin 7 a.m., Canarian time. It will also arrive in the voice of Segundo Almeida from the Communale Stadium".In 1974 Todo Deporte was born, his program, which circulated on Radio Canarias and Onda Isleña, its own station that ceased operations after his retirement.© Sports World.All rights reserved.