Fassa Bortolo (cycling team)
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Fassa Bortolo (2000-2005) was a professional road bicycle racing team founded in 2000 and lead by Giancarlo Ferretti. It was one of the inaugural 20 UCI ProTour teams in 2005.
The team participated in the 2005 Tour de France, but without their supersprinter Alessandro Petacchi. Instead they had Fabian Cancellara, who is much weaker in the sprints, but made a good figure in the individual time trial.
The full Tour de France team was: Bernucci, Bossoni, Cancellara, Corioni, Flecha, Frigo, Giunti, Gustov, Kirchen.
Fassa Bortolo stopped the sponsorship of the team after 2005, and on October 14th 2005, a man claiming to represent proposed new sponsor Sony Ericsson turned out to be an imposter, leaving all staff and riders unemployed.[1]
[edit] Team 2005
The main part of the riders signed early contracts with new teams for 2006, and eventually all riders found new teams.
| Name | Birthday | Nationality | 2006 team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrus Aug | 22.05.1972 |  Estonia |
Acqua & Sapone |
| Fabio Baldato | 13.06.1968 |  Italy |
Tenax |
| Lorenzo Bernucci | 15.09.1979 | Italy |
T-Mobile |
| Paolo Bossoni | 02.07.1976 | Italy |
Tenax |
| Marzio Bruseghin | 15.06.1974 | Italy |
Lampre |
| Fabian Cancellara | 18.03.1981 |  Switzerland |
Team CSC |
| Francesco Chicchi | 27.11.1981 | Italy |
Quick-Step |
| Massimo Codol | 27.02.1973 | Italy |
Tenax |
| Claudio Corioni | 26.12.1982 | Italy |
Lampre |
| Mauro Facci | 11.05.1982 | Italy |
Barloworld |
| Juan Antonio Flecha | 17.09.1977 |  Spain |
Rabobank |
| Dario Frigo | 18.09.1973 | Italy |
Fired for doping[2] |
| Massimo Giunti | 29.07.1974 | Italy |
Naturino |
| Volodymir Gustov | 15.02.1977 |  Ukraine |
Team CSC |
| Andrej Hauptman | 05.05.1975 |  Slovenia |
Radenska |
| Kim Kirchen | 03.07.1978 |  Luxembourg |
T-Mobile |
| Gustav Erik Larsson | 20.09.1980 |  Sweden |
La Française des Jeux |
| Vincenzo Nibali | 14.11.1984 | Italy |
Liquigas |
| Alberto Ongarato | 24.07.1975 | Italy |
Milram |
| Alessandro Petacchi | 03.01.1974 | Italy |
Milram |
| Roberto Petito | 01.02.1971 | Italy |
Tenax |
| Fabio Sacchi | 22.05.1974 | Italy |
Milram |
| Julian Sanchez Pimienta | 26.02.1980 | Spain |
Comunidad Valenciana |
| Konstantin Sivtsov | 09.08.1982 |  Belarus |
Acqua & Sapone |
| Matteo Tosatto | 14.05.1974 | Italy |
Quick-Step |
| Marco Velo | 09.03.1974 | Italy |
Milram |
[edit] Sources
- ^ Les Clarke, "Ferretti falls flat; no Sony-Ericsson squad for 2006?", CyclingNews.com, October 14, 2005
- ^ "Frigo handed sentence for doping", BBC Sport, October 24, 2005
