Fassa Bortolo

Fassa Bortolo

Team information
UCI code	FAS
Registered	Italy
Founded	2000 (2000)
Disbanded	2005
Discipline	Road
Key personnel
General manager	Giancarlo Ferretti
Team name history
2005 - ProTour 2000-2004 Div. I	Fassa Bortolo (FAS) Fassa Bortolo (FAS)
Jersey

2005 Rund um den Henninger Turm

Fassa Bortolo (2000–2005) was a professional road bicycle racing team founded in 2000 and led by Giancarlo Ferretti. Dubbed the 'Silver Team', it managed to be one of the most successful teams of the era, not in the least due to top sprinter Alessandro Petacchi. In its six competitive years, Fassa Bortolo won over 200 races, including stages in all three Grand Tours. It was one of the inaugural 20 UCI ProTour teams in 2005.

Fassa Bortolo stopped the sponsorship of the team after 2005. Efforts to find a new co-sponsor for 2006 proved unsuccessful. 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]

Petacchi and some of his helpers moved to the new Team Milram, a continuation of the Domina Vacanze Team. The other Fassa Bortolo riders all moved to different teams.

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 Team
Paolo Bossoni	02.07.1976	Italy	Tenax
Marzio Bruseghin	15.06.1974	Italy	Lampre–Fondital
Fabian Cancellara	18.03.1981	Switzerland	Team CSC
Francesco Chicchi	27.11.1981	Italy	Quick-Step–Innergetic
Massimo Codol	27.02.1973	Italy	Tenax
Claudio Corioni	26.12.1982	Italy	Lampre–Fondital
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
Volodymyr Hustov	15.02.1977	Ukraine	Team CSC
Andrej Hauptman	05.05.1975	Slovenia	Radenska
Kim Kirchen	03.07.1978	Luxembourg	T-Mobile Team
Gustav Larsson	20.09.1980	Sweden	Team CSC
Vincenzo Nibali	14.11.1984	Italy	Liquigas
Alberto Ongarato	24.07.1975	Italy	Team Milram
Alessandro Petacchi	03.01.1974	Italy	Team Milram
Roberto Petito	01.02.1971	Italy	Tenax
Fabio Sacchi	22.05.1974	Italy	Team Milram
Julian Sanchez Pimienta	26.02.1980	Spain	Comunidad Valenciana
Kanstantsin Sivtsov	09.08.1982	Belarus	Acqua & Sapone
Matteo Tosatto	14.05.1974	Italy	Quick-Step
Marco Velo	09.03.1974	Italy	Milram

Major Victories

National Champions

2001

1st Lithuanian National Road Championship, Raimondas Rumsas

1st Russian National Road Championship, Dmitry Konyshev

2002

1st Ukrainian National Road Championship, Serhiy Honchar

2003

1st Slovenian National Road Championship, Tadej Valjavec

2004

1st Luxembourg National Road Championship, Kim Kirchen

1st Swiss National Time Trial Championship, Fabian Cancellara

References