Alejandro Valverde might be the front-runner of a sequence of candidates for a males’s nationwide staff highway coach on the Royal Spanish Biking Federation.
Based on a report in AS, present coach Pascual Momparler is predicted to maneuver into a brand new function throughout the federation.
Valverde retired from skilled highway racing two years in the past after a two-decade-long profession with 133 race wins, together with the highway race world title in 2018 and 348 podium finishes.
He has continued competing in gravel racing, having gained a handful of UCI Gravel World Collection occasions up to now two years, together with La Indomable twice, and ending fourth total on the 2023 UCI Gravel World Championships. His present contract with Movistar, of which he’s an envoy, is ready to return to an finish; he has not but confirmed a renewal.
Valverde’s biking profession is not with out controversy after being implicated within the Operacion Puerto blood doping scandal, of which he has denied his involvement, after which served a subsequent two-year ban from 2009-2011.
The Royal Spanish Biking Federation lately introduced a brand new President José Vicioso, who took over from José Luis López Cerrón in November.
Vicioso addressed varied points and modifications throughout his first week, which included hiring a brand new highway coach for the boys’s and ladies’s highway nationwide groups. Based on AS, the present girls’s nationwide staff highway coach, Gema Pascual, goals to proceed within the place.
AS additionally reported that the roles can be confirmed by the top of December.
