manel gonzalez has stopped being sports director of Massi-Tactic UCI Women’s Cycling Team. In this move, the team Torroella de Montgrí making important structural changes while the season is still underway, looking for help to improve results in the short and medium term. In this way, a phase that lasted four years is closed, since Gonzalo took over in mid-2019. The team is working to finalize the integration of his replacement, which will be announced soon.
Sergi Güell, president of the Baix Ter Cycling Club, justifying this decision: “We are very grateful for all the work done by Manel throughout this period, but we understand that his cycle here has come to an end. It’s time to set new goals and other motivations to improve. We think that the change of an important figure like the director of sports is a new step forward to show this ambition and thus look to the immediate future with more optimism”.
Manel Gonzalo, born in Les Masies de Voltregà 57 years ago, was a cyclist between the eighties and nineties and part of teams, among others, such as CLAS Cajastur and Puertas Mavisa. Once retired, he dedicated himself to sports management and in 2019 he accepted the proposal of Massi-Tactic.
Fifth year competing in the elite within a club founded in 1990
Massi-Tactic is the first women’s team of the Baix Ter Cycling Club and this 2023 will play the fifth consecutive season as a continental team. His main goal for this year is to turn one hundred percent professional. It consists of 13 cyclists, 4 of them Catalan (Patricia Ortega, Iris Gomez, Elisabet Escursell and Estefania Jimenez), to face the course that will last until September. The team will run around thirty national and international races, some of them UCI WorldTour category, the first level, competing for Spain and also in Italy, Belgium, France and Switzerland.
He CC Baix Ter It was founded in 1990, currently has 110 cyclists and more than 200 members. He made his first team more than a decade ago to project the three women from the entity who were leaving their training phase. The jump to International Cycling Union (UCI) took place last year 2019, although the club of Costa Brava He continues to bet heavily on the growth of his youth academy. It has a school and also a second team, the new one Mass-Tactic Academy, which replaces the old Catema.cat. This subsidiary is designed to promote Catalan commitments for a period between six months and two years and to have, in the future, a first team composed almost entirely of cyclists from Catalonia.
Source: La Verdad
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