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| Team information | ||
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| UCI code | KGZ(2007–2008) XGZ(2009) XAC(2010) | |
| Registered | Spain | |
| Founded | 2007 (2007) | |
| Disbanded | 2010 | |
| Discipline(s) | Road | |
| Status | Professional Continental | |
| Bicycles | BH Orbea | |
| Key personnel | ||
| General manager | Rodrigo Rodríguez | |
| Team name history | ||
2006–2007 2007–2008 2009–2010 | Fundación Ciclismo Galego Karpin-Galicia Xacobeo Galicia | |
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Xacobeo Galicia was a professional continentalcycling team from Spain. It competed in theUCI Europe Tour and, when selected as awild card, inUCI ProTour events. The creation of the team was announced on July 11, 2006, asFundación Ciclismo Galego following the withdrawal of four of the nine Spanish professional cycling teams from the sport. Xacobeo Galicia was managed byRodrigo Rodriguez, with assistance fromdirecteur sportifÁlvaro Pino,Jesús Blanco Villar andJosé Angel Vidal.
The team received wildcard invitations to theVuelta a España in2007 and2008.
It disappeared in 2010 following the withdrawal of theXunta de Galicia as sponsors.
In 2006, theGalician regional government, theXunta de Galicia, proposed the creation of a Galician professional cycling team in an attempt to emulate the success the Basque government-sponsoredEuskaltel–Euskadi team.
The project received not only the economic support of the Xunta but that of the former Russian internationalfootballerValery Karpin, who following his retirement had set up Valery Karpin, S.L., a property company in the region.
On August 26, 2008, with the acquisition of a new sponsor the team changed its name from Karpin Galicia to Xacobeo Galicia.
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2009
2010
As of July 20, 2010.[1]
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