Roompot-Charles aims with more experience to participate in great cycling rounds

From a talented little Dutch team that turns every race ambitiously into an established team that occasionally participates in a grand tour. This is the transformation that Roompot-Charles must undergo in 2019.

Three years ago, Dylan Groenewegen, Antwan Tolhoek and Taco van der Hoorn had the opportunity to play the Roompot-Dutch lottery. A chance that they actually caught. Now the training goes with Willems-Crelan from Veranda under the new name.

Somewhere, the farewell of the purely Dutch contribution causes a little pain. The team is now composed of twelve Dutch and six Belgians.

"Cycling has changed"

explains manager Michael Zijlaard. "What you see is that cycling in the Netherlands has changed a lot in the last four years, when we started, we were doing well, just like the Netherlands, but today we practice international cycling. "

"You also see that great talents now have more choices: go to Sunweb, go to Lotto-Jumbo, we have to be a little bit like guys who do not see big teams, but they're good and they like that to want to come to us. "