After it was announced that Giuseppe Martinelli would move from his role as Astana’s manager to a sports director with the team, the veteran Italian has explained his decision.
“I was too tired, everything at an organisational level touched upon me, from the hotels to relations with the Kazakh federation, which, because of the language, wasn't that easy,” Martinelli, who has been with Astana since 2010, told La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“I spoke about it with Vinokourov at the Tour, and asked him to please give my role to someone else. I just wanted to be a directeur sportif, without having to occupy myself with all of the bureaucracy. We spoke about it again at the Vuelta and he told me that it would be done.”
Martinelli says his role doesn’t really change, he just has “fewer problems” to deal with. The man who will replace him is now ex-sports director Dimitriy Fofanov. This frees the Italian to follow Fabio Aru from the car in 2016 with a clear head.
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