Skipping class for the team of “Blue Mountain”, which in 2015 became Professional and hires Damiano Cunego as leader of the project. Growth of young talents, marketing and internationalization are the keywords for a Made in Italy project that has a xenophile philosophy.
Damiano Cunego will be the leader of the new Professional team NIPPO – Vini Fantini – De Rosa. The Team of "Blue Mountain", after the excellent experience in continental category decided to grow, with the same board of sponsors, to become Professional, ensuring of visibility for the Italian – Japanese team. Nippo Corporation (giant in the bulding field) with its Global Ranking Division (6th global asphalt producer) is the first name of a team that considers cycling a wonderful advertising tool to communicate the image of its partners around the world.
Vini Fantini as second name, another great main sponsor of the team and it’s a 100% italian management company, with FCI affiliation. At last, De Rosa, more than a technical partner, a brand that means quality and excellence throughout the world of cycling. "With great pleasure we come back in the Professional world – explains Valentino Sciotti, Farnese Group CEO and patron of the team – because it represents an important opportunity of visibility for our companies. The confidence of Damiano Cunego is the best signal of the quality of the project, in which we really believe and wants to develop the team with new fees".
The General Manager of the team will be a professional member of the cycling world specialized in Marketing and Communication, Francesco Pelosi: "NIPPO – Vini Fantini – De Rosa is a real start-UP of cycling, which starts with a unconventional team development concept, in which the results will be second to the growth of the image, co – marketing and business support for our partners. All this through a unique group of athletes, each with a personal life story to tell”. A new declination of the management of the team.
In flagship, the first Sportive Director of the team will be Stefano Giuliani, who as an expert, is determined to work well with young and foreigners riders: "It ‘s an important stimulus to grow Japanese athletes joined with italian talents already well known among under 23, supported by a real champion like Damiano Cunego. It will be an important year in which rediscover a pure talent of cycling and bring out the qualities of young boys"-
The athletes of the team willl be unveiled very soon, at the moment it’s certain the presence of the young sprinter Nicholas Marini, 17 wins in this season. Together with Giacomo Berlato, who is a climber and a forefront athlete in 2014. Both belonging to the same team, Zalf Fior. In addiction to Antonio Nibali, who is Vincenzo’s brother, ready to skip to Pro in order to grow professionally. Above all it is certain the biennial commitment of the cycling: little prince "After thirteen years in the pro-tour and ten with Lampre – Merida team" – Damiano Cunego explains – "I’ve decided to challenge myself once again In this new group. I feel to have found the right incentives to do so, because we will have to give more of our role and I am willing to give all my experience to the young cyclists. I chose to sign for two years, building a real path and making a real change".
Now it is official: NIPPO – Vini Fantini – De Rosa is the new Italian professional team.