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 14 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 Flag of Estonia Estonia Acqua & Sapone
Fabio Baldato 13.06.1968 Flag of Italy Italy Tenax
Lorenzo Bernucci 15.09.1979 Flag of Italy Italy T-Mobile
Paolo Bossoni 02.07.1976 Flag of Italy Italy Tenax
Marzio Bruseghin 15.06.1974 Flag of Italy Italy Lampre
Fabian Cancellara 18.03.1981 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland Team CSC
Francesco Chicchi 27.11.1981 Flag of Italy Italy Quick-Step
Massimo Codol 27.02.1973 Flag of Italy Italy Tenax
Claudio Corioni 26.12.1982 Flag of Italy Italy Lampre
Mauro Facci 11.05.1982 Flag of Italy Italy Barloworld
Juan Antonio Flecha 17.09.1977 Flag of Spain Spain Rabobank
Dario Frigo 18.09.1973 Flag of Italy Italy Fired for doping[2]
Massimo Giunti 29.07.1974 Flag of Italy Italy Naturino
Volodymir Gustov 15.02.1977 Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Team CSC
Andrej Hauptman 05.05.1975 Flag of Slovenia Slovenia Radenska
Kim Kirchen 03.07.1978 Flag of Luxembourg Luxembourg T-Mobile
Gustav Erik Larsson 20.09.1980 Flag of Sweden Sweden La Française des Jeux
Vincenzo Nibali 14.11.1984 Flag of Italy Italy Liquigas
Alberto Ongarato 24.07.1975 Flag of Italy Italy Milram
Alessandro Petacchi 03.01.1974 Flag of Italy Italy Milram
Roberto Petito 01.02.1971 Flag of Italy Italy Tenax
Fabio Sacchi 22.05.1974 Flag of Italy Italy Milram
Julian Sanchez Pimienta 26.02.1980 Flag of Spain Spain Comunidad Valenciana
Konstantin Sivtsov 09.08.1982 Flag of Belarus Belarus Acqua & Sapone
Matteo Tosatto 14.05.1974 Flag of Italy Italy Quick-Step
Marco Velo 09.03.1974 Flag of Italy Italy Milram

[edit] Sources

  1. ^ Les Clarke, "Ferretti falls flat; no Sony-Ericsson squad for 2006?", CyclingNews.com, October 14, 2005
  2. ^ "Frigo handed sentence for doping", BBC Sport, October 24, 2005



Teams UCI ProTour (2005)
Bouygues Télécom | Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone | Crédit Agricole | Team CSC | Davitamon-Lotto | Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team | Domina Vacanze | Euskaltel-Euskadi | Fassa Bortolo | La Française des Jeux | Team Gerolsteiner | Illes Balears - Caisse D'Espargne | Lampre-Caffita | Liberty Seguros - Würth Team | Liquigas-Bianchi | Phonak Hearing Systems | Quick·Step - Innergetic | Rabobank | Saunier Duval - Prodir | T-Mobile Team
see also: UCI ProTour | UCI Continental Circuits | 2005 UCI ProTour