In the pleasant and welcoming green corner of Lunigiana, the official presentation of the 2025 junior team, Casano-Stabbia, and the novice team of Casano Cycling Team took place, with major sponsors Se.Pr.In. by Paolo Colò, Poliartigiana by Ginevra Vezzi, and Segno Verde represented by Paolo Marselli. The junior partnership unites two historic societies, the Ligurian Casano founded in 1956 and organizer of the international Lunigiana Junior Stage Race approaching its Fiftieth Anniversary, and Stabbia Cycling led by Luciano Benvenuti, who celebrated 50 years of activity at the end of 2024. Two societies with passionate, serious, and responsible managers, for a project looking towards the future, as team manager Cristian Castagna likes. The junior team, consisting of 9 athletes, includes some athletes from the South through collaboration with Ciclotour, and the 2024 Tuscan junior champion, Riccardo Del Cucina, who started the season with a seventh place in Cerbaia di Lamporecchio.

THE TEAM: Riccardo Del Cucina, Massimo Mezzasalma, Leonardo Anichini, Lorenzo Guidi, Pietro Menici, Guido Paladini, Antonino Lucia, Giuseppe Bruno, Alessandro Fiore. The technical staff includes Giuseppe Di Fresco (happy birthday on March 8th, the day of program presentation), Giuseppe Toni (trainer), Alessandro Mansueto, Michele Corradini, Etelbo Arzilli, Michelino Vittori (general manager), and collaborators Aldo Cappelli and Giulio Fruzzetti.

There are also nine novices in the Casano Cycling Team thanks to the collaboration with Pedale Sarzanese, which gladly transferred them to the society of president Carlo Della Tommasina, and who will perform both road and mountain bike activities.

THE TEAM: Lorenzo Cafà, Gioele Cichero, Michele Fantelli, Giovanni Ferrari, Daniele Nasti (all first-year); Giovanni Gianardi, Nicolò Riccobaldi, Devid Signanini, Carlo Bretschveider (second-year).

The technical staff includes trainer Daniele Della Tommasina, sports directors Leonardo Pucciarelli and Gian Luca Lazzini, off-road director Salvatore Commone, collaborator Federico Cozzani. The biomechanical expert is Alessandro Colò, osteopath Vincenzo Saffiotti, nutritionist Matteo Michelotti, and team doctor Dr. Carlo Giammattei.