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by EDWARD PICKERING -- EDITOR ProCycling UK, January 2020 A lot can happen in a decade. This time 10 years ago, Team Sky were just about to start and, let’s be honest, they were a bit average initially . Lance Armstrong was unretired and undisgraced . Fabian Cancellara had yet to win his first Tour of Flanders . And a British rider was probably not going to win the Tour de France any time soon, notwithstanding the fourth place that Bradley Wiggins had just achieved in the race . On the other hand, Marianne Vos was winning a lot of races, just as she is 10 years later. In a fast-changing world, some things remain reassuringly stable. Pedants will rightly point out that the decade technically ends in December 2020 , but pedants didn’t have as good a time as the rest of us on December 31, 1999. We’re celebrating the cycling teens, and what a decade it was. The last 10 years have seen the domination of Sky, the peak years of Cancellara, Peter Sagan, Philippe Gilbert, Vos a

https://www.amazon.it/Maestri-calcio-allenatori-stranieri-Portraits-ebook/dp/B01ARVU5JC di CHRISTIAN GIORDANO, Guerin Sportivo «Da giocatore sviluppi una specie di sesto senso per i vincenti. Lattek lo è». Parola di Franz Beckenbauer, la bandiera che al Bayern Monaco l’ha voluto per cominciare a vincere e l’ha cacciato per ricominciare a farlo. Stavolta senza nessuno a fargli ombra. Udo Lattek nasce il 13 gennaio 1935 a Bosemb, oggi Polonia, allora Prussia orientale. Primi passi da calciatore vero nel 1953-54 al Marienheide. Dopo un anno è al Bayer Leverkusen, tre stagioni ai “farmacisti”, quattro al Wipperfürth e tre da riserva all’Osnabrück. In biancoviola, 3 presenze e un gol nel 1963-64, l’apice della onesta carriera di ex attaccante scalato centrocampista: il sesto posto in Regionalliga Nord. Già dal campionato successivo, l’ultimo prima del ritiro ma trascorso senza giocare, mette a frutto gli studi in pedagogia. Allena part-time i ragazzini del vivaio e in prim