Alejandro Valverde may very well be the front-runner of a collection of candidates for a males’s nationwide crew street coach on the Royal Spanish Biking Federation.
In line with a report in AS, present coach Pascual Momparler is anticipated to maneuver into a brand new function inside the federation.
Valverde retired from skilled street racing two years in the past after a two-decade-long profession with 133 race wins, together with the street 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 prior 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 isn’t 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 varied points and adjustments throughout his first week, which included hiring a brand new street coach for the boys’s and ladies’s street nationwide groups. In line with AS, the present girls’s nationwide crew street coach, Gema Pascual, goals to proceed within the place.
AS additionally reported that the roles might be confirmed by the top of December.