Alejandro Valverde, confirmed as a new cycling coach en route

The Royal Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) officially confirmed this Monday through a statement to Alejandro Valverde as the new national elite highway coach and its presentation before the media this Wednesday.

The event will be held at the Superior Sports Council (CSD) this Wednesday, March 19 from 12:00 hours, where the new technical organization chart of the RFEC will be announced, including the Murcian as the new national coach. The formerclist had already announced his new position at the end of last January in an act in Fitur, although the official announcement of the federative entity was missing.

Thus, the Murcia, world champion en route in 2018, takes the witness of Pascual Momparler, national coach from 2019 until last season, with the challenge of squeezing the young Spanish talent at the international level and achieving successes for the Spanish team.

The one in Los Lumbreras is one of the Spanish cyclists with the best palmarés, especially in one-day tests since in addition to the aforementioned gold of 2018, he achieved another six world medals, four of bronze (2006, 2012, 2013 and 2014) and two silver (2003 and 2005), and triumph in prestigious classics such as the valona arrow (5), the liege-rap of San Sebastián (2). As a professional, he won a total of 133 victories and won in 2009 the return to Spain.

In addition, this appointment has been involved in controversy after the statements of the exciclist Óscar Freire who assured that from the RFEC he was communicated the position at the beginning of December, for weeks later he denies it. For his part, Valverde has remained on the sidelines and renewed with the Movistar Team as an ambassador “without prejudice to developing other activities within the world of cycling,” according to the ‘Telephone’ team itself.

The President of the RFEC, José Vicioso, will attend the meeting, who will be accompanied by the president of the CSD, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes; and by the coach of the rest of the disciplines and categories of the Spanish cycling team.