The team was founded at the first of july in 2010. Our manager was (some would say still is) young and unexperienced. He started his career as the manager of the amateur team Bad Company in the middle of june 2010. But back to Vuvuzela. We started with nine 21 years old riders (not possible nowadays). They were all local talents of our south african team.
10/7/31:
A mistake many newbies do and so we did with our first team: concentration on the mountain skill and neglecting the flat skill.
At the end of the next month our team looked a bit better:
10/8/31:
No form? Noob!
You can see we hired some more experienced riders from other countries. The greece Alexandre Portepapoulos was one of them and today (11/9/15) he is still in our team with 37 years. Soon he will end his career as a rider but he will remain in our team as a scout for new greek talents. Vuvuzela has a constant department of greek riders. Actually we have five greeces and the national champion Kratos Nikolaos.
Another rider you can see is Nelson Mandala. He was a very talented mountain rider with an affinity to time trials. With 24 years he was very successful at the Campeonato de los Andes 2010 winning one stage, the white jersey and the second place of the tour. After that he left the team to another team which could pay him more salary. There he couldn't bring his performance any more and rode behind his success he had in our team.
10/10/31:
Ok, the real story of Mandala was that he didn't train well and so we sold him with the age of 24.
At that time riders till 24 years had a youth bonus of 15% when you sold them.To be continued...
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] and the green jersey for Hope.
) teams we challenged with. The last one and a half year was a funny time.