{{Short description|Italian bike racing team}} '''Casa Vini Caldirola''' (or the Caldirola Wine House) sponsored an [[Italy|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.
{| class=wikitable !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== [[File:Francesco CASAGRANDE.jpg|right|thumb|[[Francesco Casagrande]] was one of Vini Caldirola's best riders.]] [[File:Stefano Garzelli - Giro d'Italia 2004 - Presolana.jpg|right|thumb|[[Stefano Garzelli]] won several stages of the [[Giro d'Italia]] while riding for Vini Caldirola.]] {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Name !Nationality !Years |- |[[Francesco Casagrande]] |{{ITA}} |1999-2000, 2004 |- |[[Romāns Vainšteins]] |{{LAT}} |1999–2000, 2003 |- |[[Stefano Garzelli]] |{{ITA}} |2003-2004 |- |[[Pavel Tonkov]] |{{RUS}} |2004 |- |[[Serhiy Honchar]] |{{UKR}} |1999 |- |[[Guido Trentin]] |{{ITA}} |1998–2000 |- |[[Eddy Mazzoleni]] |{{ITA}} |2001–2003 |- |[[Matt White (cyclist)|Matthew White]] |{{AUS}} |1999–2000 |- |[[Andrej Hauptman]] |{{SLO}} |1999–2003 |- |[[Gabriele Balducci]] |{{ITA}} |2001–2003 |- |[[David George (cyclist)|David George]] |{{ZAF}} |2001 |- |[[Nicola Minali]] |{{ITA}} |2001-2002 |- |[[Dario Frigo]] |{{ITA}} |2002 |- |[[Sylwester Szmyd]] |{{POL}} |2001–2002 |- |[[David de la Fuente]] |{{ESP}} |2003 |- |[[Fred Rodriguez]] |{{USA}} |2003 |- |[[Marco Zanotti (cyclist, born 1974)|Marco Zanotti]] |{{ITA}} |2004 |- |[[Dario Andriotto]] |{{ITA}} |2003–2004 |}
== External links ==
* [http://www.caldirola.it/ Official site]
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