It ends today the first short training camp of the NIPPO Vini Fantini team to prepare the 2017 season. On Friday the great presentation of the new Protos 2017 De Rosa, on Saturday and Sunday the kick-off of all the seasonal activities. 3 days of training camp for a complete warm-up of the new season with medical visits, osteopatic treatments and also the morning running with riders and staff as tradition of the NIPPO Vini Fantini team.
20 novembre, Paderno Dugnano.
Few hours ago the conclusion of the first short training camp, with three days of “warm-up” to prepare the upcoming season, between Cusano Milanino in De Rosa Factory and Paderno Dugnano.
After the special De Rosa night on Friday, with the reveal of the new Protos De Rosa 2017 in team edition color, two other days of training camp for the important kick-off of the season.
#ROSTER 2017
For the first time all together, the complete Roster 2017, with important confirmed riders and new arrivals in all the key roles of the team.
The team is now to his third season, that has to be the one of the consecration of the young talented riders of the team, both Italian and Japanese, under the guide of the captain Damiano Cunego and of the new experienced and charismatic riders as Ivan Santaromita and Alan Marangoni.
The Professional growth of all the Japanese riders will be a key goal of the season, for this reason together with the young talent Marino Kobayashi, the Under23 National Champion of Japan, the team of the 2017 has been reinforced with 3 Japanese riders already with international experience.
The role of Hideto Nakane, Masakazu Ito, Koehi Uchima will be to guide and help youngest Japanese riders growth, learning all together from the experienced riders of the team.
Consecration and victories, the goal of 2017 is clear and can be reached, not only with young riders, but especially with the new important riders of the roster, as Marco Canola, the experienced climber Ivan Santaromita and the additional rider, Julian Arredondo, that can be the real surprise of team, thanks to the great recovery work is doing to be back with his top condition.
The blue jersey of the Giro d’Italia 2014, Julian Arredondo, has been conditioned in the last year from a physical and postural problem. From more than one month the Colombian rider is doing a day by day Osteopatic treatment with the FK Team, that is now very satisfied for the good physical condition already reached by the rider.
#PROFESSIONALISM.
Key moment of this first training camp the individual work of the riders with sports directors and sports trainers to plan all the season preparation, races and working groups. To coordinate the activity the sports directors of the team and Maurizio Mazzoleni with his Modus Vivendi structure, and with the help of Edoardo Pasini. The goal of the meetings was to define the full preparation of riders considering the strategic races of the season.
At the same time thanks to the support of FK Team, a complete osteopathic check-up has been made, to give to riders an exercise grid and a complete scenario of their health status to every single rider of the roster. Thanks to the collaboration of Laboratorio Alto Sangro and Doctor Cocco also all the blood analysis of riders will be monitored during the year to value their performance condition.
Not only working sessions, there was already space for a night dinner in Milan and for a morning running all together with fun and challenges between riders and staff.
Francesco Pelosi, the general manager of the team, is proud of the good job made in this first training camp: “The 2017 season is officially started. Have been 3 key days to plan the first important pillars of all the season work. This will be a very important season, with the expected consecration of the young talents of the team that are with us since the begin of the project. To work in the best way as possible on this goal we have added to the team experienced riders and experienced staff, that have to drive our talents to the complete upgrade. These first three days have fully confirmed that the road we take is the right one and a great season of cycling is just in front of us.”
The 2017 of the team NIPPO Vini Fantini is officially started, with planning, method, many important professionalism supporting the team and a very strong team attitude.