Vini Caldirola

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.

Team name

As professional racing teams change name with their sponsors, the name of the team has varied in its lifetime.

Year	Name
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

Notable riders

Francesco Casagrande was one of Vini Caldirola's best riders.

Stefano Garzelli won several stages of the Giro d'Italia while riding for Vini Caldirola.

Name	Nationality	Years
Francesco Casagrande	Italy	1999-2000, 2004
Romāns Vainšteins	Latvia	1999–2000, 2003
Stefano Garzelli	Italy	2003-2004
Pavel Tonkov	Russia	2004
Serhiy Honchar	Ukraine	1999
Guido Trentin	Italy	1998–2000
Eddy Mazzoleni	Italy	2001–2003
Matthew White	Australia	1999–2000
Andrej Hauptman	Slovenia	1999–2003
Gabriele Balducci	Italy	2001–2003
David George	South Africa	2001
Nicola Minali	Italy	2001-2002
Dario Frigo	Italy	2002
Sylwester Szmyd	Poland	2001–2002
David de la Fuente	Spain	2003
Fred Rodriguez	United States	2003
Marco Zanotti	Italy	2004
Dario Andriotto	Italy	2003–2004

External links

• Official site