End of season 2015 Friday evening at the usual Mathis restaurant of Fiorenzuola d'Arda, it took place the traditional ending season dinner with the athlets and staff members of Merida Italia Team. The best situation to track the final analysis of the 2015 activity.
For the society from Piacenza the 2015 season has been difficult since the beginning, when the loss of some important sponsor caused heavy problems to the Team, that on the other hand had managed it in the best way. Although it was a hard misfortune, but it hasn't stopped athletes and team members from pursuing the seasonal goals without losing fortitude. Regarding the results, it is possible to state that the main aims have been reached. Indeed, remembering what was told during the Team presentation, the purpose of Merida Italia Team was the one to see growing its five Under23 in International XCO races. It's clear that in a different way they all reached this aim. Alessandro Naspi (Italian Champion Juniores 2014) at his first year in UN23 category showed an unexpected performances levels. Unfortunately he hasn't been costant because of the high school final exam, but in several occasion Alessandro has been able to show off high level performances, like in the World Cup stages when starting from the background he came back so near to the score positions. Gioele Bertolini, 1995 class, is the most talentous of the crew, as his palmares shows, and was the most constant during the 2015 season. In