The cyclist Luis Ángel Maté will promote the name of Estepona in his next national and international competitions.
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The athlete returns to the origins of his professional career, which began in the city, premiering a jersey designed by his son and based on the image of the municipality. With it he will travel the world in the events planned for this year in the gravel cycling modality.
The Malaga cyclist Luis Angel Maté will promote the name of Estepona in the upcoming national and international competitions in which he plans to participate this year in the form of gravel cycling, a discipline that, along with mountain biking, have become his new goal after his retirement last year from professional cycling.
The mayor of Estepona, José María García Urbano, has presented with the athlete the jersey that Maté will wear in these competitions that will take him this year by corners of both the national and international geography, through countries such as Morocco, Finland, Iceland and the United States. The jersey is inspired by Estepona, its autumn colors and its motto as ‘Garden of the Costa del Sol’. The cyclist has been proud to wear “for the first time a jersey chosen by me and also designed by my son,” he said, noting that “it is inspired by those outings that for a long time I made by the Pedregales, by Sierra Bermeja, the mountains that I call my office.”
The councilman has highlighted the “brilliant” professional career of Maté for 17 years, in which he has participated in events such as the Tour of Spain or the Tour de France and many other competitions inside and outside the country. He also recalled his links with Estepona, the city where he took his first steps in cycling at the hands of the Unión Ciclista Virgen del Carmen, where he obtained his first federal license. “It is a pride that the name of Estepona reaches different corners of the world by the hand of a professional of the height of Luis Angel Maté,” he stressed.
“In the school of the Union Ciclista Virgen del Carmen, where they did an extraordinary job with children, and the hand of Juan Antonio López Baeza, I took my first steps, so it fills me with happiness to return to those beginnings and carry the name of Estepona in this new exciting stage,” said Luis Angel Maté.
After his retirement from professional cycling, he has opted for a different way of tackling the sport, “avoiding the pressure and the pavement” and opting for disciplines such as gravel, “a more social and friendly cycling”. In this new stage he will be accompanied by Estepona, but also by brands that continue to bet on his professionalism, such as Orbea, Ekoi and Etxeondo.