Fassa Bortolo

Cycling team infobox
teamname = Fassa Bortolo


code = FAS
base = ITA
founded = 2000
disbanded = 2005
manager = Giancarlo Ferretti
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discipline = Road
status =
season = 2005 - "ProTour"
2000-2004
"Div. I"
oldname = Fassa Bortolo "(FAS)"
Fassa Bortolo
"(FAS)"
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Fassa Bortolo (2000-2005) was a professional road bicycle racing team founded in 2000 and lead by Giancarlo Ferretti. It was one of the inaugural 20 UCI ProTour teams in 2005.

The team participated in the 2005 Tour de France, but without their supersprinter Alessandro Petacchi. Instead they had Fabian Cancellara, who is much weaker in the sprints, but made a good figure in the individual time trial.

The full Tour de France team was:Bernucci, Bossoni, Cancellara, Corioni, Flecha, Frigo, Giunti, Gustov, Kirchen.

Fassa Bortolo stopped the sponsorship of the team after 2005, and 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. [Les Clarke, [http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2005/oct05/oct14news2 "Ferretti falls flat; no Sony-Ericsson squad for 2006?"] , "CyclingNews.com", October 14, 2005]

Team 2005

The main part of the riders signed early contracts with new teams for 2006, and eventually all riders found new teams.

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