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Happy new season!

Written by Universal Soup at 08:29 27/1-2024

  After an absence of many a season, our manager finally decided to return to the world of OCM. Where before I, Tan Ngoc Phuong, could just sit down, do nothing and collect my non existing paycheck I now have to do actual work again to be able to do so.
  
  Season 67
  Let us first start with season 67. The good news is that we ended up record amount of results and wins for team Universal Soup. Only a little under 300 points less than our record of 1648 points.
  
  
  Stats
  Rank at season end: 98 th
  Points at season end: 1395
  Total victories: 10
  Total results: 33
  
  The bad news (notable results)
  Ingemar Fallander
  3rd in Juberri - Pas de la casa (offday)
  5th in Karpaty Tyr
  
  Nguyen Tân Xuan
  2nd in VCK Classic
  
  Mikey Esposito
  6th in Tour of the Western Cape
  
  Ho Quang Long
  2nd in Giro di Sicilia
  
  Season 68
  
  Our goals for season 68 are mainly tours and classics in div 2 and 3 depending on what rank we can hold.
  
  The first goals are a classic and a tour. After that we have to see how these two went and what is thus possible rank wise.
  Ainet - Bruggen with Binh Quang Thang
  Volta ao Porto or Norway Tour with Huynh Ngoc Long
  
  other possible goals, depending on rank are Perm Tour, Karpaty Tyr, Tour of the Western Cape, VCK Classic, and if we drop too much use our wild card for Giro di Sicilia.
  
  Teams
  
  This season we are trying to slim down the total squad back to 18 riders.
  A hill team, a climbing team and a miscellaneous team with trainees and outcasts.
  The hill team has 7 members, so one of them will be mainly with the outcasts, depending on the races we participate in.
  Also our trainees from now on will be from ASEAN countries. There are 10 member states (not all available) so the pool we can get talents from is still quite big.
  The long term goal is to get a full ASEAN team.
  
  The Climbing team
  VietnamHô Ngoc Ngoc - Captain
  VietnamBinh Quang Thang - Captain
  SwedenIngemar Fallander - Captain
  NetherlandsCorne Veneberg - TM
  SingaporeTrijit Gawli - TM
  VietnamNg Nguyên Minh - Trainee / WC
  
  The outcasts
  VietnamHo Quang Long - Tour captain
  VietnamHuynh Ngoc Long - Tour captain
  VietnamLân Trung Luu - Trainee (climb tour)
  ThailandTadchai Nanthanimit - Trainee (hill climb)
  MalaysiaShanmuganathan Idlan Talaha - Trainee (downhill)
  
  The Hill team
  USAMikey Esposito - Captain
  VietnamNguyen Tân Xuan - Captain
  VietnamLôk Tân That - HH
  BelgiumChristian Van Der Straeten - HH
  DenmarkRonni Jürgens - HH
  PolandIwo Sokołowski - HH
  AustraliaAiden Lowe - HH
  
  To be retired:
  VietnamVo Quang Duong - TM
  IrelandLeroy Piekarski - TM
  
  We would all like to wish you a happy new season from everyone at Universal Soup
  
  #POTUS1 BrokenChain

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Comments


Team Chili at 00:06 29/1-2024
  Its been great having you back again.
  
  This season will be a ripper, if you don't leave again :)


Amstel Flanders at 08:40 27/1-2024
  Great return, hopefully you can stay longer this time.

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