Isaac del Toro, the story that started with a Facebook message

The leader of the Italian Giro won a place in the AR Monex team thanks to his insistence to ask for an opportunity in a view

A text sent by the messaging of Facebook You can turn a Ensenada boy, Baja California, the feeling of Italy turnas happened to Isaac del Torothe 21 -year -old Mexican who surprises when he heads one of the most important cycling competitions on the planet.

“In Mexicofor every five mountain cyclists there is only one of the route (…) In 2015 to 2019 we were focused on mountain competitors, but we had the goal of making route cyclists. We launched a call on social networks to seek talent and Isaac del Toro He arrives late. We had since those who were late were not going to be able to participate, but he writes to me and asks me for the opportunity: ‘I know I can achieve it,’ it was his message. He put several records, he told me how he was in second place in an Olympiad of the Conade, behind a cyclist of us. To beat one of ours and be stuck, it’s because you bring what. He told us that he was second because he broke the diversion, if he had not won. I said, ‘Ah, Cabr …, it’s brave’. We allow you to register late, ”he recalls Luis RodríguezGeneral director Ar Monex Pro Cycling Team, the team that discovered Isaac del Toroin an interview with AM850.

Isaac del Toro It is ‘El Torito’ for the cuates, pedaling on the roads of Italy With the strength of his parents, who accompany him with the cry of “They do not win you, son” or with his girlfriend Romina, also a cyclist, waiting for him in the goal, but his wake that leaves with the Maglia Rosa goes beyond Italy. The pink stain that leads the squad of 184 cyclists has impacted on the other side of the world, in Mexicocausing more than one sport fan to get up early to search for social networks how he went to the Mexican cyclist.

“I know him since Chiquito, sometimes I review the records of WhatsApp And I listen to his voice, is that of a child, from a boy who wanted to be one of the figures of cycling, ”he says Luis, One of the three Rodríguez brothers who raised a professional cycling team, are based in San Marino with Mexican cyclists with the same ambitions as Isaac.

“When he arrived with us, he was 15 years old. In Ensenada, I know he started practicing with a coach called ‘Chon’, literal a man who locally dedicates himself to training children. There in Ensenada they have a track of cycling Mountain who is driven by a coach named ‘El Güerito Ayala’, is dedicated to training a lot of children in Ensenada, has had many talents under his care, “adds Alejandro Rodríguez, Team Manager of the Ar Monex Pro Cycling, about the cycling tradition that supports Del Toro.

The force of ‘He Torito ‘ surprises to his own compatriots, like Santi GimenezMilan player in calcium, who wrote him on social networks, after winning stage 17 of the Italy turn and keep the color pink: “What you are doing, crack. To continue pedaling strongly.”

Isaac del Toro, about to be out of cycling

The image of Isaac del Toro simulating a cape pass when passing first in stage 17 of the Italy turnwith the Rosa Maglia, he could be left alone in the imagination of the 21 -year -old boy. At the time of Covid-19, in a camp with its then team, the Ar Monex Pro Cycling, there was a sports director who asked to say goodbye to Ensenada, Baja California.

“Isaac He filled too many details of what we were looking for, since he brings in the DNA the born talent, the effort tests, the lung capacities, the tests that were done, he brought them and that is because since childhood they got into cycling. He was noticed how he brought it and his very defined character to cycling, he was seen everywhere. There was a moment, you know they are young, and they are unbalanced, the time came when a sports director asked me to get ISSAC For behavioral issues, but we ask the coach to try to take it, because their profile was out of series, that is intense and it is important to learn to work with them. He learned Isaac And we begin to believe in him, ”he recalls Luis Rodríguez.

The fame of Isaac del Toro goes beyond Mexicoin Spain and Italy, the Pink Mariachi is nicknamed, for not releasing the sweater that identifies the leader of the Turnand they say his horse is the bicycle. They relate their exploits to the stories of Mexican boleros, perhaps because they are like their style on the bicycle: soft and melancholic, but strong, always speaking of a feat.