Work begins for renewed staff of Caja Rural-Alea Subsidiary. Last weekend, the group held its first meeting at the home of its second sponsor, where the usual logistical procedures were carried out to organize personalized material for a team that for the first time consisted entirely of 23 riders. .
The sessions also served to Aritz Bagues debuted in his new position at the head of the development team. The Gipuzkoan led the various technical talks and the exercise session where the whole squad climbed the Gaztelua peak located near Alea’s headquarters.
The youngest team of the Caja Rural-Alea subsidiary
Bagües will lead a very young block with up to ten rookies from the youth category. To these must be added another ten second years under 23 cyclists, so that more than half of the twenty-seven riders of the Caja Rural-Alea subsidiary were born in 2003 or 2004. Fourteen renewed and one third (José Marín, British Lucas Towers and the Uruguayan champion Thomas Silva) from another set.
The main goal is to retrain and prepare these young athletes for their jump to professionalism, which throughout history has been achieved by 120 runners from various squads of our elite and sub 23 affiliates, the last Abel Balderstone, Mulu Kinfe Hailemichael and Joseba López
SQUAD 2023
Pablo García Francés (Madrid, 01/16/2001) – Renewed
Gabriel Rodas (Madrid, 01/26/2001) – Renewed
Julen Arriolabengoa (Álava, 02/16/2001) – Renewed
Javier Ibáñez (Álava, 11/29/2001) – Renewed
Thomas Silva (Uruguay, 12/30/2001) – From Previley – Coforma
José Marín (Málaga, 03/28/2001) – He comes from Telco’m
Adrián Losarcos (Navarra, 09/04/2002) – Renewed
Jon Erdocia (Navarre, 01/22/2003) – Renewed
Alberto Fernández (Madrid, 02/19/2003) – Renewed
Jaume Guardeño (Alicante, 02/20/2003) – Renewed
Aleandro Belíjar (Madrid, 05/19/2003) – Renewed
Samuel Fernández (Asturias, 07/11/2003) – Renewed
Diego Ruiz de Arcaute (Álava, 07/30/2003) – Renewed
Jan Castellón (Lleida, 07/31/2003) – Renewing
Martxel Echeverria (Navarre, 10/19/2003) – Renewed
Beñat Carbayeda (Guipúzcoa, 03/29/2003) – Renews
Lucas Towers (United Kingdom, 11/9/2003) – From Previley-Coforma
Aimar Madina (Guipúzcoa, 01/6/2004) – From youth
Daniel Cepa (Valencia, 12/12/2004) – From youth
Hugo Aguilar (Madrid, 08/1/2004) – From youth
Hugo de la Calle (Asturias 07/12/2004) – From youth
Estanislao Calabuig (Valencia, 10/28/2004) – From youth
Iker Pérez (Cáceres, 10/20/2004) – From youth
Iñaki Navarro (Barcelona, 05/17/2004) – From youth
Mikel Uncilla (Navarra, 10/26/2004) – He came from youth
Xabier Zabala (Navarra, 08/16/2004) – From youth
Miquel Morales (Barcelona, 02/6/2004) – From youth
Source: La Verdad
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