German Nicolas Tivani arrived at Unieuro Trevigiani in Mirko Rossato e Marco Milesi in 2017, when He was 22 years old and didn't know much about life.With him, in that adventure on Italian soil, there was a small group of very strong people, like Joao Almeida and Simone Ravanelli and the following year also Fedeli and Filippo Zana.
The Argentine, who has been racing with Team Corratec since this year, is known around here as “El Ardilla,” the squirrel. In Europe he won races such as the Tour of Serbia, while in others he placed so much that the UAE Emirates he wanted him for an internshipHe tried his luck, but apparently it didn't spark love. In the meantime, Trevigiani closed its doors and Tivani had no choice but to pack his dreams back in his suitcase and go back home.. Four years and more victories came in the Agrupacion Virgen de Fatima, until Giovanni Lombardi picked up the phone and contacted Serge ParsaniThe boy is good, even though he's 27 years old now. He's won races. And in the end... la corratec he opened the doors for him.
The rider's suitcase
A few days ago, speaking to the local press, The Argentine said that one of his dreams is to participate in the Giro d'Italia and as it happens when a home rider has the opportunity to do great races, Curiosity and various enthusiasms have arisen around him.
“I think I can do something good,” he says, with his kind look. I finally found a professional team and now I'll have to recover a bit before arriving in EuropeMy goal has always been to come back and now I've done it. In Argentina I leave my loved ones, it's the hardest thing, but I leave with the dream of doing beautiful things and continuing to grow as an athlete.After 2018, I didn't receive any offers. I was 100 percent focused on continuing in Europe, even though I was probably badly advised."
Children's dreams
These are distant and special places. Miles and miles of nothingness, dusty rides, and big dreams. Very young children waiting for the champions with their small bicycles and fixed wheel bikes, imagining perhaps one day being like them. And so the champions, in stopping with each of them, ideally close the circle. Tivani just went to greet his brother, while a child looked at him as if he were a giant.
"I am so different from that boy who left five years ago – he smiles, sheltering himself from the sun – I have had many experiences. My head is different, I'm more matureI know what's good and what's bad. It was right to come to Italy so early, because anyway I learned a lot from Trevigiani and now I plan to grow further in CorratecFrom here I'll fly to the Tour of Antalya in Türkiye. I've heard of it, but I'm not familiar with it. I want to know everything, find out what I can. To the guys running here, I say keep trying. Things come when you least expect them.You have to do everything in life with professionalism, not just be left wanting to try."
Sprint start
Tivani had started his season again in the Agrupacion Virgen de Fatima, with la Return to San Juan as the main objective of the seasonHe was pumped up like a spring, but signing with Corratec forced him to reconsider his plans to some extent.
“We worked hard,” he smiles, “with many hours and a lot of practice. But when I signed with the new team, I slowed down the training a little.I was working hard to get here at my best and then I don't know what races I would have done. Instead now The season is long and yet to come, we will need to not waste too much energy. They, the old team, were a little disappointed, but After the initial disappointment, they are now very happy for me.
The new Corratec
La new bike he waits for him to go to the signature sheet of the fifth stage, the one that ends at Alto del Colorado, above 2.000 meters, where the Vuelta a San Juan then bowed to Superman Lopez.
"It's a beautiful bike," he says with a big smile. "I liked it right away, it's so rigid. It's good. It's light and these Ursus wheels are also nice and stiff and I really liked that.It's aerodynamic, but also a climber's bike, so it's light and stiff."
He eats it with his eyes, but now Konychev and Attilio Viviani arrive and take him to sign. His pro season has just begunHe made his debut at 27, reconnecting with the smile of that boy who left Pocito seven years ago to pursue his distant dream.
