SL Benfica (cycling team)
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Sport Lisboa e Benfica has a new Cycling team that will start competing in 2007.
Cycling was the second modality established within the club, and along with football, is one of only two sports referenced in the club logo. The sport was in activity from 1906 to 1941, 1947 to 1978, and once again for two seasons in 1999 and 2000. Benfica last won the Volta a Portugal in 1999, with Spanish cyclist David Plaza capturing the leader's yellow jersey. Historically, the club has had great national successes in cycling, and after some interruptions and delays, approved in 2006 the re-introduction of a cycling department to start in 2007. The team will join the UCI Professional Continental Division.
The Head of this department is the former cyclist Orlando Rodrigues.
[edit] 2007 Elite team
José Azevedo (from Discovery Channel)
Javier Benitez (from Mateos)- Bruno Castanheira (from Maia Milaneza)
- Eladio Jimenez (from Comunitat Valenciana)
- Rui Lavarinhas (from Riberalves-Alcobaça)
- Pedro Lopes (from LA Aluminios / Liberty Seguros)
- Hélder Miranda (from Riberalves-Alcobaça)
- Sérgio Ribeiro (from Barbot-Halcon)
- Renato Silva (from Imoholding-Jardim Hotel Loulé)
Danail Petrov (from Maia Milaneza)- Didac Ortega (from Barcelona)
- José António Pecharroman (from Comunitat Valenciana)
- Hugo Sancho (from Mortágua)
- Rui Costa (from Feira)
[edit] 2007 Under-23 team
- Márcio Barbosa (from Anicolor/Siper)
- José Mendes
- Bruno Sancho (from Anicolor/Siper)
- Edgar Anselmo
- Fábio Cera
- Tiago Claro
- Fábio Coelho
- Mário Costa
- André Ferreira
- Edgar Pinto
