[3] The team who embarked on the "tournee" to Spain was mainly made up of players from local club Real Victoria, which had the likes of Ángel Arocha and José Padrón.

On 26 April 1925, the island team is announced in Valencia under the name of "Canarian Selection", and so, although the Selection of the Canary Islands was only officially created in 1996, there have been three matches in which the presence of the Canarian National Team was announced, twice in 1925 against Valencia CF in Mestalla, and once in 1952 against San Lorenzo de Almagro in Chamartín, and these games ended in a draw, a loss, and a win.

This meeting was arranged in tribute to José María Úbeda, a great sports critic for Pueblo and once an excellent footballer who had recently died, with the proceeds of the game going to help his family.

Cabrera netted his second and Canarian's fifth, but it was ruled out offside because of a threat of withdrawal from the Argentines, who fought during the clash with extreme violence, causing the injury of Canary's only goalkeeper, Cristóbal, which forced the Canarians to replace him with Real Madrid's goalkeeper Juanito Alonso, who was in the stands of Chamartín (the then Real Madrid Stadium) watching the game.

On 29 December 2007, after a 5-year hiatus, many of the best Canarian football players of the First and Second divisions delighted their fans with a 2-0 win over a 2006 World Cup team, Angola, with goals from Adrián Martín and Jorge Larena.