{"id":331632,"date":"2025-12-07T00:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331632\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T00:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:10:13","slug":"recently-retired-alessandro-de-marchi-moves-to-the-other-side-as-sports-director-with-jayco-alula-after-15-years-in-the-pro-peloton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331632\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently retired Alessandro De Marchi moves to the ‘other side’ as sports director with Jayco-AlUla after 15 years in the pro peloton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently retired Italian veteran Alessandro De Marchi <\/a>will continue his career in the sport, moving into a sports director role at Jayco-AlUla, where he has spent his final three seasons as a rider during his professional racing career.<\/p>\n

After announcing his retirement during the spring<\/a>, the Italian climbing all-rounder will begin his new job with the Australian outfit at the start of 2026.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m happy to finally take this step, and above all, I\u2019m happy because I can begin this new journey in an organization I know, one that recognizes me, and one that has always valued me for who I am,\u201d De Marchi said in a team press release.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI know I\u2019ll be starting from scratch, I\u2019ll begin to reconstruct myself in this new role, which I\u2019d like to interpret a bit like I did as a rider: with passion and determination for a job I love. I\u2019m also very intrigued to see and work on the process from a new perspective; it\u2019s stimulating to think about how I can contribute now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though his main role was as a domestique, De Marchi managed seven wins from a career that started in 2010, when he joined Androni-Giocattoli-Serramenti. Riding for Cannondale, BMC Racing, CCC Team and Israel-Premier Tech before his move to Jayco, De Marchi won three stages of the Vuelta, a stage of the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, Tre Valli Varesine and the Giro dell\u2019Emilia. His most recent success came in 2024, with a solo success at stage 2 of the Tour of the Alps.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is fantastic to have Alessandro staying with Team Jayco AlUla for the next phase of his cycling career,\u201d Jayco-AlUla\u2019s Sporting Manager, Gene Bates, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring his time in the peloton, Alessandro developed a reputation as an intelligent rider, and he is well respected within the bunch. The transition from rider to staff member can be a challenging one, but one we believe he will flourish in, and GreenEDGE Cycling will be a very good place for him to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The team announced De Marchi\u2019s retirement in a team video<\/a> released in mid-August.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who know me have probably seen this coming, but let\u2019s begin from the start,\u201d De Marchi said. \u201cFirst, I would like to read you something: \u2018Sometimes change is not suffered, it is desired. It is a push that comes from within, that wants to be recognised, and above all to be listened to.’<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a phrase I came across in a book, and by no coincidence, it sums up perfectly the process that I have been going through these last months.\u201d<\/p>\n

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However, he had been less poetic in an interview a few weeks before that, heralding his retirement and criticising increased aggression in the bunch.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t miss much about the peloton I\u2019ve been hanging out with lately. It has changed too much, and there are many dynamics that I no longer like. There is too much aggression,\u201d he said before suggesting his new career path.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, I\u2019m thinking about what to do once I get off my bike, and the main idea is to stay in cycling. More specifically, I would like to move to \u2018the other side\u2019 and get into the team car.”<\/p>\n

From Italy\u2019s far north-eastern Friuli region, De Marchi closed his riding career on home roads, finishing 90th and 89th in the Giro Del Veneto and Veneto Classic, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently retired Italian veteran Alessandro De Marchi will continue his career in the sport, moving into a sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-331632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}