Alejandro Valverde may very well be the front-runner of a collection of candidates for a males’s nationwide crew highway coach on the Royal Spanish Biking Federation.
In accordance with a report in AS, present coach Pascual Momparler is anticipated 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 Sequence occasions previously 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 come back 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 not too long ago introduced a brand new President José Vicioso, who took over from José Luis López Cerrón in November.
Vicioso addressed numerous points and modifications throughout his first week, which included hiring a brand new highway coach for the boys’s and girls’s highway nationwide groups. In accordance with AS, the present ladies’s nationwide crew highway coach, Gema Pascual, goals to proceed within the place.
AS additionally reported that the roles will probably be confirmed by the tip of December.
