Luxembourg Pro Cycling snaps up Bennati and Viganò
Nizzolo and Pires also join the Schleck team
The Luxembourg Pro Cycli🌊ng te⛎am has announced the signing of Daniele Bennati as well as Davide Viganò, Giacomo Nizzolo and Bruno Pires.
The news comes a day after General Manager Brian Nygaard told Cyclingnews at the 2011 Tour de France route presentatioꦯn that signings would be annඣounced in the coming weeks and that a full team presentation would be made in Luxembourg in January.
Bennati joins after spend💞ing the last three seasons at Liquigas and has won over 50 professional races, including the points jerseys in both the Gir🐼o and the Vuelta.
“𝓰Bennati is such a classy rider and we are very happy to have him,” General Manager Brian Nygaard said.
“He is really passionate about our proཧject and I’m sure he’ll be a significant addition to our line-up. He has won many impressive victories, but I actually don’t think we have seen his best yet. I see him flourishing in the right environment and I believe we can provide that for him.”
Bennati last two seasons have been effected be injuries bu💎t he💯 has still won over 15 races in that time and aims to hit the ground running in 2011.
“My objectives for the coming season are to get off to a good start fro🔥m the first and try to make the most of Tirreno-Adriatico in order to be supremely prepared for the Milan San Remo,” Bennat🅰i said.
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“The team will be shooting to do well in the Classics and the Grand Tours,” Bennati said. “We have a strong group of riders who are the right age to start 𒁏securing some major victories, and I want to be right in there♒ providing the best support to the team that I possibly can.”
Davide Viganò joins from Team Sky, w⛄here he rode for just one season, but the 26-year-old is looking forwar🍸d to a new start. The Italian could feature as a leadout man for Bennati or a sprinter in his own right.
“I was𒉰 immediately interested in joining this team because from the beginning I could see the professionalis💛m and seriousness of the people setting it up,” Viganò explained.
“I really want to add value and show my quality ꦜin racing during the cobbled classics, but most importantly, I want to demonstrate that I am a solid and reliable team player, and help make it the best group out there.”
Pires has been heralded as a promising rider from Portugal while Nygaard believes that neo-pro Giacomo Nizzolo, has all th♐e hallma🗹rks of a future sprint champion.
“Giacomo is considered the next big sprinter to come out of Italy,” Nygaard declared. “He is very young, but is a super fast, pure sprinter.”