The head of the Prada fashion empire, said there is more to building a team than just assembling 100 people

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For the man behind the long term history of America’s Cup challenger Luna Rossa, it is nothing unexpected that the 36th cup coordinate sets his Italian outfit in opposition to Team New Zealand.

Patrizio Bertelli, the top of the Prada style domain, said there is something else entirely to building a group than simply amassing 100 individuals, and the long history of both the protector and challenger matter. It’s about family.

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“The solitary genuine groups we have right currently are Luna Ross and Team New Zealand, and it is anything but an incident that they are in the match,” said Bertelli by means of a videolink from his home in Milan.

The protector has nonstop DNA at the high level of the cup extending back 35 years to Fremantle in 1987, while the Italians have over twenty years as a unit – chronicles unrivaled in the game.

“These previous 20 years that we have spent assembling groups have shown a great deal, to those structure the group, yet to the actual individuals,” Bertelli told a media meeting just before Wednesday’s first race.

“The America’s Cup implies living respectively for quite a long time, it’s about day by day life, it’s about little subtleties – not simply top innovation – you need to live with the others day in outing,” said Bertelli.

Luna Rossa’s two-decade old family has included relationships, births, and now has colleagues who are the posterity of firsts from 2000.

“This makes an air, a method of carrying on and living that is very surprising to simply staying 100 individuals together and considering them a group,” he said.

Bertelli has been not able to join his fourth Cup crusade, because of the responsbilities of maintaining a huge business in a nation hit hard by Covid-19.

He said he had confidence in his boat and his group, and concurred with captain Max Sirena – who was on the boat in 2000 – that “this is the best we have been in the previous 20 years of regattas.”

Luna Rossa and Team New Zealand have been incredible opponents, yet now and again partners, with Luna Rossa sharing Kiwi innovation to mount a relaxed mission in San Francisco in 2013.

Sirena told media that without Bertelli, Luna Rossa would not have had the option to accomplish what it had – a second cup last, 21 years after it’s first.

“We took the experience of past crusades, and the experience of the people in various groups, and attempted to plan something else for the past – work out where we had been frail previously,” said Sirena.

One of the large contrasts had been the capacity to create, and gain from more unfortunate exhibitions prior in the regatta.

“After the Christmas Cup (world arrangement) individuals said Luna Rossa planned to return home in the main week,” he said.

“The equivalent after the cooperative effort, the equivalent after the semi finals (won) against American Magic, and after Team UK (in the Prada Cup last) a many individuals said the italians will return home crying.”

Starting here on, Sirena said it is just about sport.

“Presently we are in the last, there are individuals saying the Italians need a wonder to beat Team New Zealand – I’m satisfied to race the last,” said Sirena.

“How about we go dashing and see what occurs.”

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