Manager Eusebio Unzúe presented his Caisse d'Epargne team on Wednesday in Paris. The team is coming...
Alejandro Valverde and Oscar Pereiro (Image credit: Foto Abarca Sports)
Manager Eusebio Unzúe presented his Caisse d'Epargne team on Wednesday in Paris. The team is coming off a fantastic 2008, during which its star Alejandro Valverde claimed the top individual ProTour ranking and the team took the overall ProTour title.
"The beautiful victories we obtained in 2008 as well as the first places in the rankings were a great satisfaction for us, and they oblige us to do as well in 2009," said Unzúe. "But beyond our results, we underline that we respected our commitments to ethics and we showed the solidarity of our riders.
"The 2009 team, with four young and promising riders, will try again to be the best one in the races in which it takes part."
Caisse d'Epargne 2009: Andrey Amador, David Arroyo, Anthony Charteau, Rui Costa, Arnaud Coyot, Mathieu Drujon, Imanol Erviti, Txente García Acosta, Iván Gutiérrez, Arnold Jeannesson, Vasil Kiryienka, Pablo Lastras, David López, Alberto Losada, Ángel Madrazo, Dani Moreno, Luis Pasamontes, Oscar Pereiro, Marlón Pérez Arango, Fran Pérez, Mathieu Perget, Nicolas Portal, Joaquím Rodríguez, José Joaquín Rojas, Luis León Sánchez, Rigoberto Uran, Alejandro Valverde and Xabier Zandio.
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Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014).
