Orluis Aular, winner of the Trofeo Matteotti earlier this month, signed a dream contract with the Movistar Team for 2 years, the workforce introduced on Wednesday.
Aular spent the previous 5 seasons with Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, with whom he got here into his personal within the final two seasons, taking general victories within the Volta ao Alentejo and CRO Race final 12 months and the GP Internacional Torres Vedras-Trofeu Joaquim Agostinho this season together with second general within the Tour du Limousin.
“To be trustworthy, I by no means imagined I might make it to the WorldTour,” Aular stated within the workforce’s press launch. “I all the time sought to progress one step at a time. I first tried to make it to the European peloton, and I achieved it due to Jesús Rodríguez Magro competing in Spain with EC Cartucho.”
Rodríguez, a former professional with Banesto, was the proprietor of Aular’s novice workforce, and Aular’s journey in Spain continued on a extra international scale with a stint of racing in Belgium and France in 2017 and a sequence of races in China the next 12 months. He signed with the Japanese workforce Matrix Powertag in 2019, with whom he gained the Tour de Kumano.
Those achievements led Aulaur to signal with Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, the place he started to get a foothold within the European peloton amid the COVID pandemic. He picked up his first victory with the workforce in 2022 on the Classica da Arrabida and adopted that along with his first general win within the Volta ao Alentejo.
“I can’t thank Caja Rural sufficient for the prospect they gave me again them. I knew that it will solely get more durable from there, and it has been a few years of onerous work and dedication to get this lovely alternative with the Movistar Team. It makes me completely happy and in addition so emotional – it is by no means been simple,” Aular stated.
“2024 has been my greatest season but. Year by 12 months I’ve improved rather a lot, and I used to be in a position to maintain consistency in each my efficiency and outcomes this season, with the intention of attending to the WorldTour. That need has propelled me to work more durable than I’ve ever accomplished. I’ve been in a position to recover from some mountains in higher type than ever, and having the ‘plus’ of figuring out I might stand that probability of becoming a member of the Movistar Team gave me hope to proceed enhancing in lots of facets.
“I’m on the workforce’s full disposal for no matter they could want. I’ll maintain chasing targets, as I’ve accomplished over my total profession, making an attempt to be a very good allrounder and exhibiting I’ve nonetheless acquired room to enhance. I’m a bit anxious to get going, know the teammates and employees – a few of them I’ve already shared time with up to now, and I wish to help the workforce and provides it my all.”
