Isaac del Toro: The formula that Mexican sport should apply?
Isaac’s route of the bull is described in four steps: fun, detection, development in Europe and competition in the best World Tour team
ISSAC DEL TORO ROMERO It accumulates 23,576 kilometers above the bicycle in international competitions. The distance is sufficient to have given more a half to the planet from Ecuador, just 21 years. The emergence of Mexican cyclist, second and best young in the Italy turn It was not a work of chance, say those who know the case of El Torito.
“It does not run as if I had much experience, it is that it has a lot Ar Monex Pro Cycling.
From Ensenada to San Marino, the path of Isaac del Toro
The route that has led to Isaac del Toro To become the sensation of cycling began in Ensenada, adopting cycling for “fun”, as Don Chon, his first coach, defines. Physical qualities and mentality were detected by the AR MONEX PRO CYCLING team, to integrate it into its development program in Europe. Finally, the signing with UAE Team Emirates placed it in the position of fighting for the Rosa Maglia.
The brothers Luis and Alejandro Rodríguez, co -founders of the AR MONEX, recognize the character of Isaac, When asking for a visor when they were already closed. They also point out that, by geography, Ensenada is one of the territories that is rarely explored to detect talent, by remoteness, but Isaac He already stood out in the National Olympics of Conade.
“We focus on the 15 -year -old boys, it is the case of success, it is what happened with Isaac. That they have particular physiological conditions to provide them with success of a development that normally takes four years, depends on the mentality of each one, or up to eight,” says Alejandro Rodríguez.
Isaac del Toro reached 15 years with Ar Monex and in 2021 he began competing in his first tests in Europe, internationally. In his first year he accumulated 296 kilometers and in 2024, when he ran the entire season, his records reached nine thousand 663 kilometers, already with the UAE Team.
“We want to create heroes for new generations, to practice cycling and want to be like Isaac. That is something that we are going to start seeing this year or in the following years, as the success of Isaac At the highest level, and the following is that they are detected at timely age, ”added Alejandro Rodríguez.
When the triumphs arrived, 14 of the 18 World Tour teams asked about their services, but it was the team with the largest budget of the circuit that Isaac chosen in the bull.
“He went to a team where he was going to have a lot of competition. He could choose a team where he was going to be the absolute leader, but decided Isaac I was clear that I wanted to be in the best team in the world, “said Alex Rodríguez.
Private Initiative and Efideport to the Rescue of Isaac del Toro
The Rodríguez brothers, Luis and Alex, found a way to continue financing their project of a team that prepares road cyclists. He Efideport In fiscal stimulus that allows private companies to provide resources to sports projects on a percentage of income tax payment. That benefited Isaac del Torosecond place in the Italy turn 2025, and some of his companions.
“In 2019 we discovered a fiscal stimulus through the Treasury and Ar Monex was supported by this fiscal stimulus through this group of businessmen. The stimulus must be approved by the CONADE by the COM and the beneficiaries were Isaac And some of his colleagues, at the beginning of that administration, then corrupted a lot. We are open to work with the government, but when we see rare things, we close to that, but fortunately the current administration is working, if it has received government support, but mainly from the private initiative. We always prefer to always go on the right, with the government and companies, ”recalls Luis Rodríguez, general director Ar Monex Pro Cycling Team, in an interview with AM850.
The idea that began in 2015 and stumbled in the Czech Republic, reached its highest point with the second place of Isaac del Toro in it Italy turn. One of the bridges was the Efideportwhich allowed between 2019 and 2020, years where Isaac del Toro I was already in the team, hold the AR MONEX project, with an approved program of 35 million 537 thousand 687 pesos that contributed more than 19 companies.
“We were approved 2019 and 2020, we continued applying 2021, 2022, and 2023, but those years rejected us, it was until just at the end of last year 2024, that we were authorized again and we are waiting for the president to activate the Efideport This year to participate again, ”says Luis Rodríguez.
How is the Cycling Federation?
While Isaac del Toro He forged his career, administratively Mexican cycling was torn. In 2009 he entered to preside over the Mexican Federation of Cycling (FMC) Edgardo Hernández, in it he encaled for 13 years until he was unknown by the International Cycling Union (ICU).
On May 7, 2022 there was an assembly of elections in Mexico City, which was the winner Gerardo Langarica; But the taste was little because the UCI, at the request of Raúl Alcalá, did not know that Steering Committee and delivered the Mexican Olympic Committee (Com) the key to registering Mexican athletes in international events.
According to the General Law of Physical Culture and Sports, National Federations must be recognized by the International Federation, COM and Conade to work in order. Cycling worked with an FMC recognized only by the CONADE and the com making the inscriptions to the Games of Paris 2024, where Mexico managed to carry the largest team of the last decades on the track, route and mountain, but administratively without harmony.
For those games, as the route competitions were on the outskirts of Paris, the FMC paid a special hotel so that athletes did not have to come and go every day to the town of Athletes. The result is that Daniela Gaxiola obtained a historic sixth place in the Keirin test.
That same year, Isaac del Toro He competed for Mexico at the World Cup held in Zurich, Switzerland, where he ended up in position 12 in the Sub-23 category.
With the change of government in Mexico there was readjustment of recognition. The COM maintained his position of not recognizing Langarica and the ICU sent an ultimatum to Mexico to definitively reorganize this sport; Otherwise, athletes will begin to be marginalized from international competitions.
The COM, in alliance with the CONADE led by Rommel Pacheco, have summoned an assembly this Monday afternoon in Mexico City to form a reorganizing commission or a national federation, according to how the circumstances occur. Bernardo de la Garza, former director of Conade, and Raúl Alcalá, legend of Mexican cycling, are interested in leading the new body.
