Casa Vini Caldirola (or the Caldirola Wine House) sponsored an Italian professional road bicycle racing team between 1998 and 2004, with a gap in 2002, where the main sponsor was Tacconi Sport. In 2005 the team was formally disbanded, but many riders continued in the new Liquigas-Bianchi UCI ProTour team.
As professional racing teams change name with their sponsors, the name of the team has varied in its lifetime.
Year | Name |
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2004 | Vini Caldirola–Nobili Rubinetterie |
2003 | Vini Caldirola–So.di |
2002 | Tacconi Sport–Emmegi |
2001 | Tacconi Sport–Vini Caldirola |
2000 | Vini Caldirola–Sidermec |
1999 | Vini Caldirola |
1998 | Vini Caldirola |
Name | Nationality | Years |
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Francesco Casagrande | ![]() | 1999-2000, 2004 |
Romāns Vainšteins | ![]() | 1999–2000, 2003 |
Stefano Garzelli | ![]() | 2003-2004 |
Pavel Tonkov | ![]() | 2004 |
Serhiy Honchar | ![]() | 1999 |
Guido Trentin | ![]() | 1998–2000 |
Eddy Mazzoleni | ![]() | 2001–2003 |
Matthew White | ![]() | 1999–2000 |
Andrej Hauptman | ![]() | 1999–2003 |
Gabriele Balducci | ![]() | 2001–2003 |
David George | ![]() | 2001 |
Nicola Minali | ![]() | 2001-2002 |
Dario Frigo | ![]() | 2002 |
Sylwester Szmyd | ![]() | 2001–2002 |
David de la Fuente | ![]() | 2003 |
Fred Rodriguez | ![]() | 2003 |
Marco Zanotti | ![]() | 2004 |
Dario Andriotto | ![]() | 2003–2004 |
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