Trek-Segafredo has agreed terms with Matteo Moschetti for the 2019 and 2020 seasons. 21 year-old Moschetti currently rides with Polartec-Kometa – the continental development team supported by Trek-Segafredo – and is enjoying a successful start to the season. Moschetti has accumulated six victories already this year, showing he is ready to make the move to the WorldTour level since joining Trek-Segafrdo as a stagiaire last year.

“I can say I’m really looking forward to be part of this great team for the next years,” said Moschetti. “After being a stagiaire with the team last August in Colorado, I had the chance to get to know them and ever since I have worked a lot to improve. I’m really excited to join Trek-Segafredo in 2019, but first I would like to continue and finish well this season with Polartec-Kometa.”

Luca Guercilena, General Manager, Trek-Segafredo: “Matteo is the first recruit from our contintental development team and we are obviously very eager to have him join us. We had Matteo as a stagiaire in Colorado and were already convinced of his qualities then. However, we thought it was wiser to let him mature one year more in the continental team. With 2 stage wins in the Tour of Antalya, one stage win in the International Tour of Rhodes, a victory in the International Rhodes Grand Prix and 2 stage wins in the Tour de Normandie, so early on in the season, I think he has proved he’s ready to step up to the WorldTour.”

Francisco Contador, Operations Manager, Polartec-Kometa: For our team, this is of course very good news. Matteo is the first rider who passes to the WorldTour team and that is after all our objective. We are a very young team and our riders don’t stay with us for a long time because our main goal is to prepare them to step up to the WorldTour level. Being able to realise this first transfer so soon makes us very proud and happy. It motivates us to keep working in the same line and to prepare more riders to be ready to move to the highest level of professional cycling.”

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