The Italian powerhouse is excited to step up his game and top the solid list of results he has earned during his first eight years as a pro with some big wins in EF pink.
“I’m very happy to become a part of this team,” Vincenzo says. “And I’m very, very motivated for next year. I will do my best.”
Vincenzo lives in the hills around Florence but is most at home when he is racing over the Belgian cobbles, rattling up bergs and sprinting into corners in the wind. He will be a strong asset during our spring classics campaign. This year, Vincenzo finished in the top ten at 19 races, including the E3 Saxo Classic, Binche-Chimay-Binche, and the Circuit Franco-Belge. Earlier in his career, he won the Trofeo Matteotti and a stage of the Tour du Limousin.
That victory fuelled his will to win.
“My best, most beautiful Cycling moment so far came two years ago when I won at the Tour du Limousin in France,” Vincenzo says. “I attacked in the last kilometer and arrived alone with five or six seconds on the main group. I will never forget that last kilometer. I want to win more races.”
That has been Vincenzo’s goal ever since he was a child.. He has been racing since he was six years old and can navigate a peloton like it is his second nature.
“I knew I wanted to become a pro from the age of 16, more or less,” he says. “One year, when I was under-23, I won seven races, including a stage at the Tour de l’Avenir and a professional race I did with the national team.”
That performance earned him his first contract and kick started his racing career. Vincenzo has since developed into a consummate professional. He is a consistent performer who is ready to work for his teammates across all terrain from the start to the end of the season. He has ridden the Giro d’Italia four times and, though he loves his national grand tour, now wants to bring his three-week racing strength to the Tour de France to help his new EF Education-EasyPost teammates and go for a stage win.
“My very big dream for next year is to ride the Tour,” Vincenzo says. “I have done the Giro, so the big goal this year is to make it to the Tour. I would love to do the Tour, win a race, and ride well at the classics.”
EF Pro Cycling founder and CEO Jonathan Vaughters is expecting big things from Vincenzo in the years ahead.
“Vincenzo Albanese is a very consistent racer who can earn results for us from the start to the end of the year,” Vaughters says. “He has the strength to make it into the finales of the big classics and mix it up in hard grand tour bunch sprints. Our younger riders are going to learn a ton from his racecraft. Vincenzo knows how to keep a cool head when it gets chaotic in the peloton and put down his power when it counts. We think he is knocking on the door of a big win.”
Going into 2025, Vincenzo is more motivated than ever. After an offseason spent at home in Tuscany, fishing for sea bass and red snapper off the island of Erba, enjoying some games of football with his mates, and touring the local vineyards with his girlfriend, he is already working hard to get in racing shape for the spring classics.
“For me, this will be the first time I will have the chance to race for a very big team,” Vincenzo says. “It will be a great experience, and I want to make the most of it. I am excited to join an American team and about our program and the trust that the team has put in me for the next year.”
Welcome to the team, Vincenzo. We can’t wait to see you race in pink.
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