Viviani and Pozzato join Italian national team at Tour de San Luis
Elia Viviani (Team Sky) and Filippo Pozzato (Southeast-Venezuela) will join the Italian national team, selected by Davide Cassani, at the Tour de San Luis held from January 18-24 in Argentina. The team will rely on Vivani in the bunch sprints, according to a press release from race organizers.
Viviani, Pozzato and Maresco will be the mentors on the squad that is also going to bring three under-23 riders Minali, Ravasi and Affini. The two sprinters on the team, Viviani and Maresco, will rely on their teammates to help in the lead-outs, while Pozzato will be the on-road captain.
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“My role will be more as an expert than a leader and I want to thank Davide Cassani for this opportunity," Pozzato said. "It’s an honour to give my contribution to growing up young talents. Everybody knows I have a weakness for these colours and I live these moments with pure emotion.
"Since I will just have ended the Six Days of Rotterdam, I hope to be competitive enough to help my fastest teammates. It will be my seventh time in San Luis. This race has grown so much since its start with such a high international level. In some occasions it seems like I am at the Tour de France but luckily many champions present are at the beginning of the season."
Cassani's assistant Marino Amadori will direct the team, who added, "About the mixed selection, I would like to underline it is a project strongly wanted by Italian Cycling Federation to invest on young riders; Viviani will try to get good results and, at the same time, prepare the Worlds on Track for London, Maresco is a young sprinter who did well in his first year as a professional, the three talented under-23 Minali, Ravasi and Affini, the youngest 20, who will breath an international cycling scenario. These five men will be coordinated by skilled Pozzato."
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