Los Galacticos

[el Galactico]

Welcome to the team presentation of Los Galacticos!

The Galactics:

Juan Pablo Cubillan
Pablo Fierro
Patrick Biehler
Gonzalo Arteaga
Alberto Garrotini
Luiz Coral
John MacKenzie
Alexis Larrain
Mario Sorrentini
Rodrigo Tellez
Tyler Pearce
Miguel Aramayo
Marlon Hubert
James Krakauer

Contract from 01.02.2023:


Legends:


Tour victories(23):

Leandro daSouza ( Tour du Centre '09, Tour Down Under '10 )
Jorge Felicandes ( Paris-Nizza '10)
Benjamin Gourgue (Kerala Tour '10, Memorial Laurent Fignon '10)
Guilherme Callado (Tour Down Under '11)
Luiz Lazequeira (Calabria '12)
Marco de Luca (Dauphine '20)
Alberto Urrutia (Tour de Paves '20)
Marco de Luca (Sardegna '20)
Alejandro Betancur (Andrha Pradesh '20)
Luca de Marchi (Provence '21)
Luca de Marchi (Giro di Sicilia '21)
Luca de Marchi (Giro 2021)
Luca de Marchi (Tour de France 2021)
Luca de Marchi (Vuelta de Espana 2021)
Luca de Marchi (Andes '21)
Alejandro Otxoa (Pais Vasco '22)
Alejandro Otxoa (Suisse '22)
Alejandro Otxoa (Ain '22)
Alejandro Otxoa (Langkawi '22)
Alejandro Otxoa (Andes '22)
Rodrigo Tellez (Down Under '23)

Stage wins(335)

1.Alejandro Otxoa 30
2. Leandro daSouza 25
Luca de Marchi 25
3. Guilherme Callado 23
4. Alejandro Betancur 22
5. Benjamin Gourgue 14
Marco de Luca 14
6. Gonzalo Arteaga* 12
7. Luiz Lazequeira 9
Cristobal Yanez 9
Felipe Flores Nyuti 9
8. Ricardo Diaz Romero 8
9. Alexis Larrain* 7
Daniel Castillo 7
Pedro Castello Ruiz 7
10. Thiago de Lemos 5
Alejandro Espinoza 5
Erik Jacobson 5
Adam de Crolles 5
11. Rafael Ruiz Cabal 4
Francisco Guerra 4
Tyler Pearce* 4
12. Kim Braaten 3
Diego del Rios 3
Jorge Felicandes 3
Luiz Foguete 3
Inacio Araujo 3
Joao Sabrosa 3
Marcelo Lima 3
Sergio Moreno 3
Alejandro Salazar 3
Martin Roux 3
13. Nikita Chruschtschow 2
Frederik Granqvist 2
Ignacio Castillo 2
Joaquim Soares 2
Ignacio Salazar 2
Taison Souza 2
Tom Lombaerts* 2
Patrick Biehler* 2
14. JoseArturo Vidal 1
Carlos Alberti 1
Kenny Miller 1
Ramon Andrade Oliveira 1
Javier Lorente 1
Robson Iguacu 1
Adriano Perreira 1
Joaquim Tigre 1
Ricardo Junqueira 1
Arturo Sarrabal 1
Ramon Cervalles 1
Anderson Rodriguez 1
Ignacio Espinoza 1
Rodrigo Bonfim 1
Ivan Curkovic 1
Miguel Irarrazaval 1
Constante Girardengo 1
Pedro Javier Diaz 1
Thiago Fuser 1
Eduardo Sandoval 1
Jordan Parkes 1
Remy Laporte 1
Mario Haas 1
Alberto Urrutia 1
Humberto Vega 1
Jhonatan Aguilar 1
Felipe Vizcaino 1
Lukas Wallnöfer 1
Simon Dolberg 1
Pablo Fierro* 1
Juan Pablo Cubillan* 1
Luiz Coral* 1
John MacKenzie* 1
Mario Sorrentini* 1
Rodrigo Tellez* 1


Classic races (Kat.4+)

Diego del Rios (GP Harelbeke '10)
Benjamin Gourgue (Giro dell Emilia '10)
Inacio Araujo (Tre Valli '11)
Ignacio Salazar (Amstel Gold Race '12)
Marco de Luca (Fleche Wallone '20)
Cristobal Yanez (Rund um den Turm '20)
Rafael Ruiz Cabal (GP Quebec '20)
Marco de Luca (GP Piemonte '20)
Luca de Marchi (Emilia '21)
Luca de Marchi (Milano-Torino '21)
Alejandro Otxoa (Emilia '22)
Gonzalo Arteaga (Tre Valli '22)
Alexis Larrain (Piemonte '22)
Gonzalo Arteaga (Lombardia '22)
Luiz Coral (Tours '22)

Mountain jerseys(24):

1. Alejandro Espinoza 4
Alejandro Otxoa 4
3. Cristobal Yanez 3
Luca de Marchi 3
4. Joaquin Villafuerte 2
Jorge Felicandes 2
6. Stephan Auge 1
Damiano Wallnöfer 1
Thiago Fuser 1
Rafael Ruiz Cabal 1
Juan Pablo Cubillan* 1
Luiz Coral* 1

Sprint jerseys(34):

1. Guilherme Callado 6
2. Alejandro Betancur 5
3. Leandro daSouza 4
Alejandro Otxoa 4
4. Luiz Lazequeira 3
Marco de Luca 3
Luca de Marchi 3
8. Roland Gaspard 1
Ramon Andrade Oliveira 1
Benjamin Gourgue 1
Sebastian Araujo 1
Alberto Urrutia 1
Pedro Castello Ruiz 1


Best young rider jersey(21):

1. Alejandro Salazar 4 (Tour of Beijing '13, Atlastour '13, Filipinas '13, Sulawesi '13)
Marco de Luca 4 (Philippines '19, Giro de Limon '19, 4 Ciudades '20, Provence '20)
3. Sebastian Araujo 2 (Tour Med '11, Tirreno-Adriatico '11)
Luca de Marchi 2 (Festival of Cycling '21, Provence '21)
Tyler Pearce* 2 (Andes '22, Atlas '23)
4. Benjamin Gourgue 1 (Giro '10)
Jorge Felicandes 1 (Paris-Nice '10)
Joao Sabrosa 1 (Tour des Pavés '11)
Luiz Lazequeira 1 (Tour de Kharkiv '11)
Ignacio Salazar 1 (Volta Rio '11)
Alberto Urrutia 1 (Tour of Belgium '20)
Mario Sorrentini* 1 (Peace Ride '22)


Team Classements(18):

Paris-Nice 2010
Franco-Belge 2010
Ain 2020
Tour de Paves 2020
Sardegna 2020
Campeonato de los Andes 2020
Andrha Pradesh 2020
Route of the three wise men 2020
Provence 2021
Giro di Sicilia 2021
Tour de France 2021
Pais Vasco 2022
Tour de l'Ain 2022
Tour de Luxembourg 2022
Andes 2022
Calexico 2022
Atlas 2022
Down Under 2023


Most eternal points:

1. Luca de Marchi 26148
2. Alejandro Otxoa 22995
3. Marco de Luca 21354
4. Gonzalo Arteaga* 11685
5. Guilherme Callado 113411
6. Benjamin Gourgue 10715
7. Alejandro Betancur 10625
8. Leandro daSouza 9527
9. Cristobal Yanez 8704
10. Felipe Flores Nyuti 8525
11. Ignacio Castillo 7598
12. Luiz Lazequeira 6856
13. Rafael Ruiz Cabal 6617
14. Alejandro Espinoza 6249
15. Matteo Collini 5074
16. Jorge Felicandes 5055
17. Pedro Castello Ruiz 4721
18. Daniel Castillo 4605
19. Ignacio Salazar 4442
20. Taison Souza 4011
21. Kim Braaten 3952
22. Felipe Vizcaino 3618
23. Tyler Pearce* 3531
24. Alberto Urrutia 3408
25. Erik Jacobson 3393 (not all for the team)
26. Jhonatan Aguilar 3257
27. Thiago deLemos 2823
28. Alex Larrain* 2754
29. Rodrigo Bonfim 2744
30. Marcelo Lima 2544
31. Joaquin Villafuerte 2436
32. Ricardo Diaz Romero 2256
33. Joao Sabrosa 2207
34. Alejandro Salazar 2166
35. Sebastian Araujo 2127
36. Francisco Guerra 2108
37. Martin Roux 2039
38. Diego del Rios 1988
39. Inacio Araujo 1972
40. Patrick Biehler* 1951
41. Adriano Perreira 1948
42. Luiz Coral* 1911
43. Sergio Moreno 1712
44. JoseArturo Vidal 1655
45. Joaquin Caparros 1588
46. Joaquim Soares 1513
47. Alberto Garrotini* 1507
48. Rodrigo Tellez* 1474
49. Lukas Wallnöfer 1172
50. Arturo Sarrabal 1093
51. Juan Pablo Cubillan* 1092
52. Luiz Foguete 1069


Most races:

1. Martin Roux 346
2. Humberto Vega 340
3. Luiz Foguete 324
4. Alberto Urrutia 312
5. Cristobal Yanez 293
Ricardo Diaz Romero 293
7. Daniele Marcolli 289
8. Alejandro Espinoza 284
Rafael Ruiz Cabal 284
Pedro Castello Ruiz 284


National Championships(21):

Diego del Rios(Brazil, June '10)
Ignacio Castillo(Spain, June '10)
Joaquim Tigre (Brazil, February '11)
Inacio Araujo (Brazil, June '11)
Thiago deLemos (Brazil, October '11)
Arturo Sarrabal (Chile, October '11)
Thiago deLemos (Brazil, February '12)
Ramon Cervalles (Bolivia, February '12)
Marcelo Lima (Brazil, June '12)
Alejandro Salazar (Chile, October '13)
Ivan Curkovic (Serbia, October '13)
Marco de Luca (Italy, February '20)
Daniel Castillo (Chile, February '20)
Alejandro Betancur (Colombia, February '20)
Felipe Flores Nyuti (Costa Rica, June '20)
Alejandro Betancur (Colombia, June '20)
Cristobal Yanez (Chile, June '20)
Mario Haas (Austria, June '20)
Felipe Flores Nyuti (Costa Rica, October '20)
Alejandro Betancur (Colombia, October '20)
Cristobal Yanez (Chile, October '20)

World Championships (1)

Thiago de Lemos (Brazil, March '12, self-controlled)

Grand Tours(13):

Giro '10
5. place: Benjamin Gourgue
28. Jorge Felicandes
34. Ignacio Castillo

Tour de France '10
3. place: Benjamin Gourgue
17. Jorge Felicandes
18. Ignacio Castillo
Days in yellow: 2x Ben Gourgue
6 stages(Gourgue 2x, Callado, Foguete, Felicandes,del Rios)

Vuelta '10
5. Benjamin Gourgue
12. Ignaco Castillo
23. Jorge Felicandes
Days in green: 7x Callado
Days in blue/white: 1x Perreira
4 stages (Callado 2x, Gourgue 2x)

Giro '12
Days in red (sprint): 14x Lazequeira
4 stages (Lazequeira 2x, Lima, Salazar)

Vuelta '13
3. Rodrigo Bonfim
20. Trevor McLeod
22. Ignacio Espinoza
24. Sergio Moreno
4 stages (2x Moreno, Espinoza, Bonfim)

Giro '20
2. Marco de Luca
3 stages (Castillo, Betancur, de Luca)

Tour de France '20
2. Marco de Luca
Green jersey: Betancur
4 stages (2x Betancur, Yanez, de Luca)
Days in yellow: 1 - Betancur
Days in green: 20 - Betancur

Vuelta '20
3. Marco de Luca
11. Felipe Flores Nyuti
Mountain jersey: Cristobal Yanez
3 stages (2x Betancur, Yanez)
Days in mountain jersey: 10 - Yanez

Giro '21
1. Luca de Marchi
Maglia ciclamino: Luca de Marchi
2 stages (2x de Marchi)
Days in maglia rosa: 3 - de Marchi

Tour de France '21
1. Luca de Marchi
Red jersey: Luca de Marchi
4 stages (3x de Marchi, Castello Ruiz)
Days in yellow: 8 - Luca de Marchi

Vuelta '21
1. Luca de Marchi
5. Simon Dolberg
Sprint jersey: Luca de Marchi
5 stages (5x de Marchi)
Days in red jersey: xx - Luca de Marchi

Giro '22
2. Alejandro Otxoa
5x stages

Tour de France '22
2. Alejandro Otxoa
5x stages

Vuelta de Espana '22
2. Alejandro Otxoa
6x stages
Sprint jersey
Mountain jersey

Monuments:

2022
6. Pedro Castello Ruiz (MSR '22)
7. Pedro Castello Ruiz (Ronde '22)
Paris-Roubaix not participated
4. Gonzalo Arteaga (LBL '22)
1. Gonzalo Arteaga (Lombardia '22)

2021
2. Alejandro Betancur (MSR '21)
2. Taison Souza (Ronde '21)
12. Martin Roux (Paris-Roubaix '21)
6. Felipe Vizcaino (LBL '21)
3. Luca de Marchi (Lombardia '21)

2020
2. Alejandro Betancur (MSR '20)
23. Rafael Ruiz Cabal (Ronde '20)
12. Alberto Urrutia (Paris-Roubaix '20)
2. Marco de Luca, 4. Cristobal Yanez (LBL '20)
2. Marco de Luca, 8. Felipe Flores Nyuti (Lombardia '20)

2012
5. Luiz Lazequeira (MSR '12)
4. Thiago de Lemos (RVV '12)
Paris-Roubaix not started
2. Ignacio Salazar, 7. Marcelo Lima (LBL '12)
Lombardia not started

2011
5. Guilherme Callado (MSR11)
Ronde van Vlanderen not started
Paris-Roubaix not started
5. Sebastian Araujo (LBL '11)
9. Inacio Araujo (Lombardia '11)

2010
5. Ignacio Castillo (MSR10)
4. Diego del Rios (P-R10)
2. Ignacio Castillo (RVV10)
LBL10 not started
9. Benjamin Gourgue (Lombardia '10)

Cat. 5:

2022
to be continued

2021
E3 Harelbeke: not started
Gent-Wevelgem: not started
Amstel Gold Race: 5. Alejandro Betancur
Fleche Wallone: 2. Luca de Marchi
San Sebastian: 5. Luca de Marchi
GP Hamburg: not started
Bretagne Classic: not started
GP Quebec:
GP Montreal:
Paris - Tours:

2020
E3 Harelbeke not started
Gent-Wevelgem not started
Amstel Gold Race: 2. Cristobal Yanez, 7. Mario Haas, 11. Dani Castillo
Fleche Wallone: 1. Marco de Luca 3. Cristobal Yanez, 4. Dani Castillo
San Sebastian: 3. Marco de Luca, 4. Felipe Flores Nyuti
GP Hamburg: not started
Bretagne Classic: not started
GP Quebec: 1. Rafael Ruiz Cabal, 3. Cristobal Yanez
GP Montreal: 3. Cristobal Yanez, 4. Felipe Flores Nyuti
Paris - Tours: 11. Felipe Flores Nyuti

2012
E3 Harelbeke: 17. Marcelo Lima, 23. Thiago deLemos
Gent-Wevelgem: 9. Luiz Lazequeira, 15. Marcelo Lima
Amstel Gold Race: 1. Ignacio Salazar
Fleche Wallone: 8. Ignacio Salazar, 9. Joaquim Soares

2011
Gent-Wevelgem not started
5. Sebastian Araujo (Amstel Gold Race '11)
2. Arturo Sarrabal, 5. Sebastian Araujo (Fleche Wallone '11)
San Sebastian: not started
Hamburg: ?? Erik Jacobson
Plouay: 8. Thiago deLemos, 9. Joaquim Soares
Paris-Tours: 3. Joaquim Tigre

2010
Gent - Wevelgem: not started
Amstel Gold Race: 18. Alejandro de la Torre
5. Benjamin Gourgue (Fleche Wallone 2010)
San Sebastian: not started
5. Guilherme Callado (GP Hamburg 2010)
5. Adriano Perreira (Plouay 2010)
8. Guilherme Callado (Paris-Tours 2010)

Cat. 4:

2022
to be continued

2021
Omloop Het Blad: 4. Taison Souza, 8. Alberto Urrutia, 10. Lukas Wallnöfer
Strade Bianche: 7. Rafael Ruiz Cabal
De Panne: not started
Dwars door Vlanderen: not started
Scheldeprijs: not started
Brabant: 11. Taison Souza
Rund um den Turm: not started
GP Bruxelles: not started
GP Fourmies:
Tre Valli Varesine:
Milano - Torino:
Piemonte:
Giro dell Emilia:

2020
Omloop Het Blad: 13. Cristobal Yanez
Strade Bianche: 9. Cristobal Yanez
Dwars door Vlanderen: not started
Scheldeprijs: not started
Brabant: 2. Dani Castillo, 3. Cristobal Yanez
Rund um den Turm: 1. Cristobal Yanez, 7. Alejandro Betancur
GP Bruxelles: not started
GP Fourmies: 7. Alejandro Betancur
Tre Valli Varesine: 3. Dani Castillo, 7. Felipe Flores Nyuti
Milano - Torino: 7. Alejandro Betancur
Piemonte: 1. Marco de Luca, 3. Felipe Flores Nyuti
Giro dell Emilia: 5. Marco de Luca

2012
Omloop Het Nieuwesblad: 4. Marcelo Lima, 9. Joao Sabrosa
GP Schelde: 3. Luiz Lazequeira

2011
Omloop Het Nieuwesblad: 8. Stephan Auge
GP Harelbeke not started
GP Schelde not started
Tre Valli: 1. Inacio Araujo
GP de Fourmies: 5. Erik Jacobson, 8. Luiz Lazequeira
Paris-Bruxelles: 3. Erik Jacobson, 6. Luiz Lazequeira
Emilia: not started
Piemonte: 3. Erik Jacobson, 4. Luiz Lazequeira

2010
Omloop Het Volk: 10. Ignacio Castillo
GP Harelbeke: 1. Diego del Rios
Tre Valli: not started
Paris - Bruxelles: not started
GP de Fourmies: not started
Emilia: 1. Benjamin Gourgue
Piemonte: not started


Before 2010(only Top 3):

Fleche Wallone 2009: 3. Jose Arturo Vidal
Paris-Tours 2009: 3. Leandro daSouza
Hamburg 2008: 3. Joaquin Caparros

team stats

2008: 6 victories
2009: 32 victories
2010: 51 victories
2011: 24 victories
2012: 16 victories
2013: 13 victories
2014: 1 victory
2019: 9 victories
2020: 66 victories
2021: 54 victories
2022: 57 victories

2010

January : Division 1, Place ?, 20 races and 0 stages
February: Division 1, Place 19, 15 races and 3 stages
March: Division 1, Place 16, 21 races and 5 stages
April: Division 1, Place 18, 21 races and 1 stage
May: Division1 , Place 21, 25 races and 0 stages
June: Division 2, Place 5, 20 races and 6 stages
July: Division 1, Place 1,25 races and 8 stages
August: Division 1, Place 7, 18 races and 3 stages
September: Division 1, Place 10, 20 races and 3 stages
October: Division 1, Place 4, 22 races and 6 stages
November: Division 1, Place 13, 20 races and 9 stages
December: Division 1, Place 16, 23 races and 7 stages

2011

January: Division 1, Place 10, 23 races and 1 stage
February: Division 1, Place 18, 21 races and 3 stages
March: Division 1, Place 25, 18 races and 0 stages
April: Division 2, Place 26 8 races and 0 stages
May: Division 3, Place 47, 4 races and 0 stages
June: Division 4, Place 55, 1 race and 1 stage
July: Division 5, Place 139, 10 races and 2 stages
August: Division 5, Place 19, 17 races and 3 stages
September: Division 4, Place 5, 20 races and 2 stages
October: Division 3, Place 1, 16 races and 6 stages
November: Division 2, Place 13, 15 races and 3 stages
December: Division 2, Place 27, 16 races and 3 stages

2012

January: Division 3, Place 9, 26 races and 0 stages
February: Division 2, Place 8, 20 races and 6 stages
March: Division 1, Place 23, 26 races and 3 stages
April: Division 2, Place 6, 24 races and 2 stages
May: Division 1, Place??, ?? races and 4 stages
June: 1 stage
July: -
August: -
September: -
October: -
November: -
December: -

2013
August: Division 6, Place 12, 10 races and 0 stages
September: Division 5, Place 4, 16 races and 4 stages
October: Division 4, Place 6, 25 races and 3 stages
November: Division 3, Place 9, 24 races and 5 stages
December: Division 2, Place ?, ?? races and 1 stage

2020
January: Division 2, Place 1, 28 races and 4 stages
February: Division 1, Place 18, 26 races and 4 stages
March: Division 1, Place 13, 29 races and 4 stages
April: Division 1, Place 8, 26 races and 4 stages
May: Division 1, Place 7, 28 races and 4 stages
June: Division 1, Place 5, 24 races and 7 stages
July: Division 1, Place 4, 26 races and 5 stages
August: Division 1, Place 9, 25 races and 4 stages
September: Division 1, Place 9, 27 races and 7 stages
October: Division 1, Place 3, 27 races and 10 stages
November: Division 1, Place 2, 25 races and 6 stages
December: Division 1, Place 6, 26 races and 7 stages


2021
January: Division 1, Place 15, 27 races and 10 stages
February: Division 1, Place 13, 20 races and 7 stages
March: Division 1, Place 9, 29 races and 3 stages
April: Division 1, Place 8, 26 races and 3 stages
May: Division 1, Place 6, 27 races and 3 stages
June: Division 1, Place 4, 21 races and 3 stages
July: Division 1, Place 5, 24 races and 4 stages
August: Division 1, Place 5, 22 races and 8 stages


Stand: 27.01.2023
* activ and still in the team

[el Galactico]

Lievin - Airon
It's done...

At the beginning of his career Leandro daSouza met a young guy from Germany. His name was Tommy Schnappauf and he was in the same age as Leandro. But that wasn't the only affinity between these young guys. Tommy Schnappauf signed a contract for the team Quick-Step but only a few days later he changed to the RV Allagen where he grows up and becomes a really good sprinter with his skills at the mountain! So from the beginning on there was a big rivalry between these both and between the both managers aswell.
Leandro always worked out better and he was also more successful than Schnappi! But when they met each other in a race Leandro seemed to have a blockade, he reaches nearly nothing.
But today this time is over! Schnappi changed the team again in the meantime and today they met each other in a race again after a long time. But this time it ended different. Leandro got the win, his first win against Tommy Schnappauf in the winter of the successful career of the best hilly sprinter of this generation.

It was his 21st victory of his career and the 40th for Los Galacticos. Milano-San Remo, we are ready to get ya!!

[olmania]

Grats gala for this victory !
But a bit lucky because no big tempo in 6%, but i think braaten was strong ... he's always too strong !

[el Galactico]

List of stage wins (181)

Cat. 6
-

Cat. 5 (27)
Diego del Rios (Tour de France 2010: 4. Wanze - Arenberg)
Benjamin Gourgue (Tour de France 2010: 9. Les Rousses - Morzine-Avoriaz)
Benjamin Gourgue (Tour de France 2010: 10. Morzine - St. Jean de Maurienne)
Jorge Felicandes (Tour de France 2010: 12. Sisteron - Bourg les Valence)
Guilherme Callado (Tour de France 2010: 14. Rodez - Revel)
Luiz Foguete (Tour de France 2010: 19. Salies de Béarn - Bordeaux)
Guilherme Callado (Vuelta a Espana 2010: 2. Alcala de Guadaira - Marbella)
Benjamin Gourgue (Vuelta a Espana 2010: 3. Marbella - Málaga)
Guilherme Callado (Vuelta a Espana 2010: 13. Rincon de Soto - Burgos)
Benjamin Gourgue (Vuelta a Espana 2010: 19. Gijón - Alto de Cotobello)
Ignacio Salazar (Amstel Gold Race 2012)
Luiz Lazequeira (Giro d'Italia 2012: 3. Horsens - Horsens)
Luiz Lazequeira (Giro d'Italia 2012: 5. Modena - Fano)
Marcelo Lima (Giro d'Italia 2012: 6. Urbino - Porto S. Elpidio)
Ignacio Salazar (Giro d'Italia 2012: 17. Falzes - Cortina d'Ampezzo)
Sergio Moreno (Vuelta de Espana 2013: 5. Sober - Sanabria)
Rodrgio Bonfim (Vuelta de Espana 2013: 10. Torredelcampo - Güéjar Sierra)
Ignacio Espinoza (Vuelta de Espana 2013: 13. Valls - Castelldefels)
Sergio Moreno (Vuelta de Espana 2013: 19. S. Vicente Barquera - Oviedo Alto Naranco)
Marco de Luca (Fleche Wallone 2020)
Daniel Castillo (Giro 2020: 11. Porto Sant Elpidio - Rimini)
Alejandro Betancur (Giro 2020: 12. Cesenatico - Cesenatico)
Marco de Luca (Giro 2020: 17. Bassano - Madonna di Campiglio)
Alejandro Betancur (Tour de France 2020: 1. Nice - Nice)
Alejandro Betancur (Tour de France 2020: 3. Nice - Sisteron)
Cristobal Yanez (Tour de France 2020: 13. Chatel-Guyon - Puy Mary Cantal)
Marco de Luca (Tour de France 2020: 17. Grenoble - Meribel)

Cat. 4 (13)
Alejandro Espinoza Tour de Romandie 2009: 2. La Chaux - de-Fonds)
Leandro daSouza (Tour de Romandie 2009: 5. Aubonne - Geneve)
Jorge Felicandes (Paris - Nice 2010: 5. Maurs - Mende)
Leandro daSouza Paris - Nice 2010: 6. Pernes les Fontaines - Aix-en-Provence)
Diego del Rios (GP Harelbeke 2010)
Ignacio Castillo (Vuelta a Pais Vasco 2010: 3. Viana - Amurrio)
Benjamin Gourgue (Giro dell Emilia 2010)
Inacio Araujo (Tre Valli 2011)
Luiz Lazequeira (Paris - Nice 2012: 2. Mantes la Jolie - Orléans)
Marco de Luca (Catalunya 2020: 4. Ripoll - Port Aine)
Marco de Luca (Pais Vasco 2020: 2. Amurrio - Emualde)
Marco de Luca (Pais Vasco 2020: 4. Bera - Errenteria)
Cristobal Yanez (Rund um den Turm 2020)

Cat. 3 (29)
Nikita Chruschtschow (Campeonato del los Andes 2008: 10 Salado - Quito)
Carlos Alberti (Campeonato del los Andes 2008: 12 Pairumani - La Paz (El Alto))
Kenny Miller (Tour of California 2009: Visalia - Paso Robles)
Leandro daSouza (Tour of Austria 2009: 3. Kitzbühel - Prägraten)
Leandro daSouza (Paris - Bouges 2009)
Leandro daSouza (GP Beghelli 2009)
Guilherme Callado (Route du Sud 2010: 1. Carmaux - St. Gaudens)
Guilherme Callado (Route du Sud 2010: 2. Izaourt - St. Gaudens)
Guilherme Callado (Route du Sud 2010: 3. Lavaur - Castres)
Ignacio Castillo (NM Espana June '10)
Guilherme Callado (Franco-Belge 2010: 4. Mons - Tournai)
Benjamin Gourgue (Fleche Jurassienne 2010)
Guilherme Callado (Sheikh Tour 2010: 3. Jeddah - Taif)
Guilherme Callado (Sheikh Tour 2010: 4.Taif - Barahrah)
Guilherme Callado (Sheikh Tour 2010: 5. Barahrah - Al Mushirah)
Guilherme Callado (Sheikh Tour 2010: 8. Abha - Jizan)
Guilherme Callado (Tour Down Under 2011: 5. McLaren Vale - Willunga)
Erik Jacobson (Agostoni 2011)
Erik Jacobson (Paris-Bourges 2011)
Thiago de Lemos (WC March 2012)
Luiz Lazequeira (De Panne 2012: 2. Zottegem - Koksijde)
Thiago Fuser (Tour of Sulawesi 2013: 2. Manado - Tondano)
Adam de Crolles (Philippines Tour 2019: 3. Makilala - Davao City)
Adam de Crolles (Philippines Tour 2019: 8. Calamba - Maragondon)
Cristobal Yanez (Philippines Tour 2019: 10. San Jose d. Monte-Lu)
Cristobal Yanez (GP San Miguel de Allende 2019)
Felipe Flores Nyuti (Down Under 2020: 1. Tanunda Circuit)
Marco de Luca (NC Italia February '20)
Mario Haas (NC Austria June '20)

Cat. 2 (36)

Frederik Granqvist (Tour of Southland 2008: 4 Invercargill - Tuatapere)
Nikita Chruschtschow (Fleche Jurassienne 2008)
Alejandro Espinoza (San Luis Tour 2009: San Luis - Santa Rose)
Ramon AndradeOliveira (Castilla y Leon 2009: Paredes de Nava - Baltanas)
Javier Lorente (Tour de l'Ain 2009: 4. Belley - Col du Grand Colomb)
Kim Braaten (Coppa Mosella 2009)
Diego del Rios (NM Brasil June '10)
Benjamin Gourgue (Tour du Jura 2010: 4. Courgenay - Bözingenberg)
Benjamin Gourgue (Memorial Laurent Fignon 2010: 1. Le Puy de Dome)
Guilherme Callado (Etoile de Besseges: 3. Victor Lacoste - Laudun)
Guilherme Callado (Etoile de Besseges: 5. Gagnieres - Besseges)
Joaquim Tigre (NC Brazil February '11)
Inacio Araujo (NC Brazil June '11)
Erik Jacobson (Citta di Stresa '11)
Thiago deLemos (Tour des Pavés 2011: 1. Souvenir Manuel Luchs)
Joao Sabrosa (Tour des Pavés 2011: 3. Souvenir Pedro Garrido)
Joao Sabrosa (Tour des Pavés 2011: 5. Souvenir Yvon Madiot)
Thiago deLemos (NM Brazil October '11)
Arturo Sarrabal (NM Chile October '11)
Thiago deLemos (GP Bielsko-Biala 2011)
Thiago deLemos (NM Brazil February '12)
Ramon Cervalles (NM Bolivia February '12)
Luiz Lazequeira (Giro Calabria 2012: 1. Melito - Chiaravalle)
Luiz Lazequeira (Giro Calabria 2012: 2. Lamezia T. - Reggio C.)
Anderson Rodriguez (Ruta del Sol 2012: 4. Montemayor - Las Gab)
Marcelo Lima (NM Brazil June '12)
Alejandro Salazar (NM Chile October '13)
Ivan Curkovic (NM Serbia October '13)
Eduardo Sandoval (Coupe de Guadeloupe '14)
Marco de Luca (4 Ciudades: 9. Medellin)
Marco de Luca (4 Ciudades: 10. Medellin)
Daniel Castillo (NC Chile February '20)
Alejandro Betancur (NC Colombia February '20)
Alejandro Betancur (NC Colombia June '20)
Cristobal Yanez (NC Chile June '20)
Felipe Flores Nyuti (NC Costa Rica June '20)

Cat. 1 (76)

Frederik Granqvist (Lonyey - Hastar, 2008)
Alejandro Espinoza (Fodlec - Izird, 2008)
Alejandro Espinoza (86. Tour de Berne, 2009)
JoseArturo Vidal (GP de Samer, 2009)
Kim Braaten (Köln - Maastricht - Ferrieres, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (Challenge La Redoute, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (Butuan - Butuan, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (GP Tarbes, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (Coppa de Firenze, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (Reims - Sens, 2009)
Alejandro Espinoza (Welsh Dragon 2009: 4. Queensferry - Bangor)
Robson Iguacu (Bayano - Camaguey, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (Yulara - Kulgera, 2009)
Luiz Foguete (Cwemann Race, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (Cape Town - Hermanus, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (Norge Rundt 2009: 3. Hamremoen - Rollag)
Leandro daSouza (Norge Rundt 2009: 4. Rollag - Hjartdal)
Leandro daSouza (Norge Rundt 2009: 6. Fyresdal - Bygland)
Kim Braaten (Krk - Cabar, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (St. Maxime - Marseille, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (Tour du Centre2009: 3. St Martin de Jussac - St Jun)
Leandro daSouza (Mertola - Castro Verde, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (Mongoro - Mahatsara, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (Vuelta a Ciudad de Panama, 2009)
Leandro daSouza (Nanaimo - Uculet, 2010)
Leandro daSouza (Lievin - Airon, 2010)
Leandro daSouza (Classic Haribo, 2010)
Leandro daSouza (Clasica de Almeria 2010)
Leandro daSouza (La Roue Tourangelle 2010)
Adriano Perreira (Rio Blanco - San Felipe, 2010)
Jorge Felicandes (Route de Feurs, 2010)
Benjamin Gourgue (California Cup, 2010)
Guilherme Callado (Bamberg - Nürnberg, 2010)
Guilherme Callado (GP de Bielsko-Biala, 2010)
Guilherme Callado (Kurnool - Komarolu, 2010)
Guilherme Callado (Tour de Crimée 2010: 1. Yalta - Simferopol)
Guilherme Callado (Tour de Crimée 2010: 5. Vinohradnyi - Sevastopol)
Luiz Foguete (Criterium de Lafontaine, 2010)
Benjamin Gourgue (Stratford - Dargo, 2010)
Guilherme Callado (Awaso Cycling Cup, 2010)
Guilherme Callado (Kaptai Lake Road, 2010)
Guilherme Callado (Gran Premio de Lanzarote, 2010)
Benjamin Gourgue (Classique du Kachkadaria, 2010)
Benjamin Gourgue (Kerala Tour 2010: 4. Pollachi - Mudumalai National Park)
Benjamin Gourgue (Kerala Tour 2010: 5. Tazhakkod Criterium)
Guilherme Callado (Henan Cycling Cup, 2010)
Benjamin Gourgue (Alpe Fuori Challenge, 2010)
Inacio Araujo (Sevlievo - Gabrovo, 2011)
Erik Jacobson (Oxford Challenge '11)
Ricardo Junqueira (Mongo Grand Prix '11)
Erik Jacobson (Univest GP '11)
Luiz Lazequeira (Tour de Kharkiv 2011: 1. Karkiv - Karkiv)
Luiz Lazequeira (Tour de Kharkiv 2011: 2. Karkiv - Poltava)
Joaquim Soares (Valencia Loops '11)
Joao Sabrosa (NRW-Tour 2011: 4. Köln - Winterberg)
Thiago deLemos (Seychelles Loops '11)
Joaquim Soares (Boucles du Sud Ardeche '12)
Luiz Lazequeira (Blackpool Cycling Games '12)
Sergio Moreno (Penang Cycling Cup '13)
Miguel Irarrazaval (Kebemer - Dakaer '13)
Alejandro Salazar (Rasht - Ziabar '13)
Alejandro Salazar (Filipinas 2013: 4. Bayombong - Baguio City)
Constante Girardengo (Casimiro de Abreu - Nova Friburgo '13)
Pedro Javier Diaz (Circuito de Villalpando '13)
Jordan Parkes (Shetland Islands GP '19)
Remy Laporte (Braunschweig-Samleben '19)
Adam de Crolles (Ometepe Island Sprint '19)
Marco de Luca (Port of Spain GP '19)
Adam de Crolles (Windwards 2019: Stage 5)
Adam de Crolles (GP de Abidjan 2020)
Marco de Luca (Boucles de la Vallee Heureuse '20)
Daniel Castillo (Rhodes Grand Prix '20)
Ricardo Diaz Romero (Midian Cycling Race '20)
Felipe Flores Nyuti (Reykholt - Varmaland '20)

[el Galactico]

Hall of Fame

1. Alejandro Espinoza

Alejandro Espinoza

Attacke kurz nach der Mitte des Rennens durch Braaten und Espinoza. Braaten zieht Espinoza bis ca. 35 Kilometer vor dem Ziel und übergibt ihm dann an der letzten langen Steigung seinem Glück! Alejandro kämpft, das konnte er schon immer! Hält sich vor dem Feld und verliert Sekunde um Sekunde. Am letzten Kilometer hat er 7 Sekunden Vorsprung, doch an dem 3er gehen die Favoriten von hinten mit einem letzten Kraftakt an ihm vorbei. Am Ende steht ein 16. Platz, den niemand in 1 Woche mehr in Erinnerung haben wird, doch steht dieses letzte Rennen wirklich fast perfekt für die 14 monatige lange Karriere des Klassikerkapitäns der Los Galacticos!
Durch den schwachen Sprintwert war er oft bei Kamikaze-Attacken früh vor dem Ziel zu finden. Er musste oft sein Heil in der Flucht suchen und wurde dabei des öfteren nur knapp vor dem Ziel wieder gestellt. Ein Kämpfer vor dem Herren also. Genau wie er es in diesem Rennen ein letztes Mal unter Beweis stellte!

Seit dem 10.09.2008 befand er sich im Team und wird heute am 16.11.2009 nach 284 langen Rennen seine Karriere beenden. Der letzte übrig gebliebene der ersten Generation an RSF-Fahrern bei den Galaktischen und ein Mann der ersten Stunde im Team, eine galaktische Legende. Sein wohl größter Sieg war, neben dem 3. Platz im Gesamtklassement von Tirreno-Adriatico, wohl der Gewinn des Bergtrikots sowie einer Etappe bei der Tour de Romandie!

Zu Ehren Alejandros wird hiermit die galaktische Hall of Fame gegründet und er wird ihr als 1. Mitglied beitreten!

Alejandro Espinoza
284 Rennen
5 Siege
4 Bergtrikots
3. Platz Tirreno-Adriatico
2. Platz Tour of the Welsh Dragon

6249 ewige Punkte

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2. Leandro da Souza

A history of success

When Leandro daSouza was bought at the 4th of March 2009, the team had an inexact plan about having a hilly sprinter like the legend Kralju Kralev. So Leandro was bought with the start skills of 50-55-66-50-82 and he exercised very well in the following months. His helpers developed very well too and when Kim Braaten joins the team the plan was fullfilled and the way of success begun.

His first victory was the 5th stage of the Tour de Romandie '09 where he was able to beat Urs Flückiger from Falkenbier. There he was only 23 years old. With 24 he added one victory to his palmares. In July he won the 3rd stage of the Tour of Austria and one unimportant race as well. One stage in August and 2 stages in September followed after that. In October he had one of his most successful months by winning Paris-Bourges and the GP Beghelli. Furthermore he reaches a 3. place at Paris-Tours.
November was then the most successful month with 6 victories and the sprint jersey ot the Norge Rundt.
In december he added 4 stages, the sprint jersey and the tour win of the Tour du Centre.
January 2010 brought him the win and the sprint jersey of the Tour Down Under, but no stage. In February he was able to win 3 stages and in March he added 2 stages, one of them a stage of Paris-Nice, where he won the sprint jersey as well.

All in all this were 25 stages, 2 tour victories and 4 sprint jerseys.
He needed 210 races for this and collected 9527 points.

He is now the second best hilly sprinter(stage wins) and the best brazilian rider of all times.

Leandro wanted to thank Kim Braaten, his best friend and best helper here because he was one of the main reasons for his success.
He said: " When you talk about Leandro's career, you have to mention Kim Braaten, this incredible helper who brought me countless times to the finish line."


Leandro daSouza
210 races
25 stages
2 tour wins
4 sprint jerseys

9527 eternal points.


A legend retires! We want to thank Allagen and all of the others for the nice fights.

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3. Benjamin Gourgue

Today Benjamin Gourgue and the team had a meeting and they decided to end his contract from now on. The races in the following months were so few that he had no power to train for this anymore. Its a very sad decision for the whole team but we will never forget what Ben did for our team. Hopefully nobody buys him from the transfermarket. He dont want to do more races. His career is over.

Benjamin Gourgue came to the team at the 21st of April 2010 and immediately became our new leader beside Callado. Before this he was in the team of VC Aywaille from the beginning of his career. His first race then was the famous Fleche Wallone where the 23 year old belgian became 5th at the end. A excellent result in this age. One month later in May he continued his way of success with several podiums at the Giro d'Italia. At the end he became 5th in General Classement as well as he won the white jersey there.
2 months later, after he trained up to 88 mountain he started at the Tour de France for our team and again he showed some great performances by winning the stages up to Morzine and to St. Jean de Maurienne. At the end he became 3rd in GC with that. Some days after the Tour he also won the little criterium "California Cup". At the end of August the 3rd big tour started with the Vuelta and again Ben was our leader for this tour. He won again 2 stages, the stage to Malaga and the one up to the Cotobello in the last week. In the end he was again 5h in GC.
In October he was then able to win the Giro dell Emilia, a Cat. 4 classic race in Italy. This was the last step to become a cycling legend for our team.
At the end of this month a second stage win followed at the Tour du Jura where he became 2nd at the end. In November, while the Campeonato de los Andes, he won 2 little and unimportant races. At this moment its still missing a tour win for him, but this should end at the end of November, when he was able to win the Kerala Tour, incl. the points jersey and 1 stage.
One day after this Tour he was also able to win the Fleche Jurassienne, a RSF-classic race (Cat. 3). Another big win which made him at least to a candidate for the best climber in 2010.
December was his last month and he wanted to end his career by winning so that he started for the Memorial Laurent Fignon with a maximum of motivation so that he was able to win the stage up to the Puy de Dome and at the end he also got his second tour win against strong opponents like Kokorin of Flinders.
Again one day later in his last race for the team he won the Alpe Fuori Challenge, a self designed race.

Benjamin Gourgue is the first rider to jump over the wall of 10.000 eternal points for our team. So that it is no question that he will be invited into our Hall of Fame as number 3 after Leandro da Souza and Alejandro Espinoza.

At the end some stats about him...

Benjamin Gourgue
102 races
14 stages
-2x Tour de France stages
-2x Vuelta a Espana stages
- Giro dell Emilia
-Fleche Jurassienne
-1 stage Tour du Jura
2 tour wins
Best young rider(Giro 2010)
1 point jersey

10.715 eternal points

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4. Guilherme Callado

Guilherme Callado
174 races
23 stage wins
-2x Vuelta Espana stages
-1x Tour de France stage
Winner of Tour Down Under 2011
-Points jersey Vuelta Espana 2010
6x Points jerseys in total

11.341 eternal points

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5. Marco de Luca

21.354 points (#1 Galactico / #33 C4F-History)
219 races
14 stage wins
2 tour wins

- Winner of Fleche Wallonne
- Winner of Piemonte
- Winner of Dauphine 2020
- 2nd Tour de France
- 2nd Giro d'Italia
- 2nd La Doyenne
- 2nd Lombardia
- 3rd Vuelta Espana
- 3rd Clasica San Sebastian
- 3rd Campeonato de los Andes

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5. Luca de Marchi

26.148 points (#1 Galactico / #13 C4F-History)
219 races
25 stage wins
6 tour wins
- Winner Giro, Tour de France & Vuelta 2021
- Winner of 10 GT stages
- Winner Giro dell Emilia & Milano-Torino 2021
- Winner Campeonato de los Andes 2021

[el Galactico]

Cyclist of the month

Every month one rider out of the team will be honoured for his good results during the past month.
At the end of the year one out of these riders get the title of the "Rider of the Year".

Rider of the Year

2008: Alejandro Espinoza
2009: Leandro daSouza
2010: Benjamin Gourgue / Guilherme Callado
2011: Thiago de Lemos
2012: Ignacio Salazar

2019: Adam de Crolles
2020: Marco de Luca
2021: Luca de Marchi

2010

January: Leandro daSouza
February: Leandro daSouza
March: Jorge Felicandes
April: Ignacio Castillo
May: Benjamin Gourgue
June: Guilherme Callado
July: Benjamin Gourgue
August: Guilherme Callado
September: Guilherme Callado
October: Benjamin Gourgue
November: Benjamin Gourgue
December: Guilherme Callado


2011
January: Guilherme Callado
February: Guilherme Callado
March: Sebastian Araujo
April: Sebastian Araujo
May: -
June: Inacio Araujo
July: Erik Jacobson
August: Inacio Araujo
September: Erik Jacobson
October: Thiago de Lemos / Joao Sabrosa
November: Luiz Lazequeira
December: Thiago de Lemos

2012
January: Ignacio Salazar
February: Luiz Lazequeira
March: Luiz Lazequeira
April: Ignacio Salazar
May: Luiz Lazequeira / Ignacio Salazar
June: -
July: -
August: -
September: -
October: -
November: -
December: -

2013
August: Sergio Moreno
September: Rodrigo Bonfim
October: Alejandro Salazar
November: Alejandro Salazar

2019
November: Marco de Luca
December: Adam de Crolles

2020
January: Marco de Luca
February: Marco de Luca
March: Marco de Luca
April: Marco de Luca
May: Cristobal Yanez
June: Marco de Luca
July: Alejandro Betancur
August: Cristobal Yanez
September: Rafael Ruiz Cabal
October: Marco de Luca
November: Alejandro Betancur
December: Alejandro Betancur

2021
January: Felipe Flores Nyuti
February: Luca de Marchi
March: Felipe Flores Nyuti
April: Luca de Marchi
May: Luca de Marchi
June: Luca de Marchi

[Kult]

mach den kopp zu gala du warst mal ganz ok und jetzt gehts in Richtung würg..

[el Galactico]

Classic Haribo
Leandro again...

Today it was a race, Leandro and the classics sprinters against Superwurst and his Peer Pils. A 5 man group at the beginning was no problem to Edson Barroso and Co. so that the field reaches the last mountain nearly complete.

The last mountain was 18 kms before the finish where Castillo and others raised their tempo up so that Peer Pils falls 15 seconds behind the big group with Leandro! With the help of the classics sprinters the group saves 11 seconds to the finish where Leandro shows another time his incredible strenght in the sprint. His 22nd victory and the 3rd one in february.


We still don't know how it will go on after Leandros career end in 1 or 2 months!

[el Galactico]

Training news

Training 27.2.2010:
Edilson Iguacu Flach: +1
Edson Barroso Flach: +1
Jorge Felicandes Berg: +1
Ignacio Castillo Flach: +1
Adriano Perreira Berg: +1
Adriano Perreira Flach: +1

Braaten still believes in Leandros MSR win, so he holds his skills again!

Castillo 2 uphill and 2 flat skills with 24, good but 3 uphill would have been better!

Felicandes may do it better next month.

[el Galactico]

Omloop Het Volk
The beginning of the pavé season

Today the team started in belgium in the first classic race of 2010 Omloop Het Volk, a hilly/pavé race.

At the beginning a group of 2 Celtics, 1 Ariostea and Adriano Perreira from the own team attacks away from the bunch. They got about 10 minutes but then the favorites started to controll the bunch.
With about 3 minutes left the group abandoned and in this moment there was the first attack behind out of the bunch by Sebastian Holsten and Jorge Felicandes. But after a few kms the tempo was raised by Ariostea so that there was no chance for both and they were catched.
Now the race was very open and there were a lot of attacks but no dangerous group.

The long flat part at the end was well controlled by Killers and TX but on the last pavé part 4 kms away from the finish Malte Breuer used his chance, after waiting a long time before, by attacking out of the group. A lot of guys tried to follow him but at the end it was only Patrice Esnault from Celtic who was able to follow this strong attack. In the final sprint Esnault seems to be the winner but with full power Malte Breuer reaches the final line as the first one.
A big win for the little team Nozalteam!

In the group behind Ignacio Castillo reaches the 10th overall place. Kim Braaten, the captain for today got a very disappointing 25th place at the end.

Tomorrow the season will be continued by the half classic Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne.

[el Galactico]

Cyclist of the month( February)

With only 15 races this month and only one winner its not very difficult to guess who is the cyclist of this month.

There is only one candidate, the incredible Leandro da Souza!
He won all 3 stages so that the team decided that they won't nominate another one this time.

Congratulations Leandro!

[el Galactico]

Season balance February
3 vicctories in 15 races

The february was a very calm month for the team. The manager checked out of "Hotel Mama" and he also begun his new employment in the first half of this month so that the team rested some days, but after that there was especially one well known guy who gains a lot of points and 3 races aswell.

Of course it's Leandro daSouza. He has now 22 victories in his career and March will be the most important month of his lifetime. La Primavera, the most important race for a hilly sprinter like him, will be celebrated at the 20th of March!

A financially desaster in february with less than 200k profit forced the team to sell JoseArturo Vidal to buy a cheaper helper!

So now we are on to present this new rider and say some little words to the career of JoseArturo.

Jose comes to the team with 21 years and skills of 55-73-76, he was coached to become a helper for Leandro daSouza and more and more he growed up to an good allrounder! His best skills at the end were 69-82-76. A perfect helper for Leandro, so that his destiny was to work a lot for the team. A very successfull wok but he has surrender his own interests for that. But when he got the chance to drive for his own, he always shows up some good results as for example the 3. place in spring classic race "Fleche Wallone" or the 2. place at the GP de Fourmies. But he also won one thing, the little race GP de Samer in June '09!
He contest in 193 races for the Galacticos, it's for the moment the 3. place in the history of the team. Thereby he collected 1655 eternal points.
Anyway the most important part was his work for Leandro so you can say that he has a big influence on the 22 victories of Leandro too.

Thank you Jose anf good luck for the rest of your career!

Et maintenat c'est le temps pour la présentation du nouveau coureur de l'équipe! Il est le deuxième francais dans ja historie du team! Il a née dans le sud en Monieux, une petite village à cote du Mont Ventoux! Mais les gens qui pensent maintenant qu'il est un grimpeur sont faux en toute facon!
Son fermeté est le pavé! Mais la plupart du temps il devait etre le premier coureur dans le vent!

Jérome LeBusquet 46-66-64-48-59 reg. 43

Bienvenue Jérome!!

[olmania]

Welcome Jérome !
And good luck for the pavé, in the North of France there are reaaly harder than in the South

[el Galactico]

I know that, i was in Monieux 2 years ago for cycling, haven't seen any pave there!
But since his childhood he was every holiday in Roubaix with his parents. So he likes to drive on pavé, unfortunately he is not able to do it that good on normal roads, neither uphill nor downhill.

[olmania]

I know that, i was in Monieux 2 years ago for cycling, haven't seen any pave there!
But since his childhood he was every holiday in Roubaix with his parents. So he likes to drive on pavé, unfortunately he is not able to do it that good on normal roads, neither uphill nor downhill.

éhé ! The Ventoux was good for cycling ? Hope you had 30° mini and big sun

[el Galactico]

I really had sun and about 30°, buuuuuut not on the top, on the top i really felt like in siberia! But the worst was the wind, we were 3 guys and everybody managed it to fall from the bike, but on the ascent^^! And not because we were so tired

[olmania]

I really had sun and about 30°, buuuuuut not on the top, on the top i really felt like in siberia! But the worst was the wind, we were 3 guys and everybody managed it to fall from the bike, but on the ascent^^! And not because we were so tired

Yeah the wind is terrible, this is the "Mistral", young aix know that wind that's his country.
So, for me my favorites climbs are in the Alps, and if one day you've to do cycling in an unknown place for you in the Alps, ask me for more informations
So, have a great night, and long life to Leandro

[el Galactico]

Clasica de Almeria
Live long Leandro...

The "Clasica de Almeria" today was a race for sprinters with only 2 little mountains at halftime of the race, but today something totally unexpected happend. After a "sieb" from Strohhutbande the best sprinters are behind the group of Leandro and some others. After that they remaining sprint teams in front worked so good together that they reached the finish line without the best sprinters. Leandro then got the right wheel and won the sprint with only milimeters before Esteban Trueba!
His 23. victory today is also one of the most beautiful ones!

But today it was only possible because we worked so good in the first group.

[olmania]

Congratulations. Victory with a bad form, always nice

[el Galactico]

Training 5.3.2010:
Jérome LeBusquet Berg: +1
Jérome LeBusquet Flach: +1
Adriano Perreira Berg: +1
Adriano Perreira Flach: +1
Jorge Felicandes Berg: +1
Alejandro DeLaTorre Berg: +1
Alejandro DeLaTorre Flach: +1
Ignacio Castillo Berg: +1

Big training! Braaten excellent! Castillo with a mountain training, great! Felicandes and Perreira have a good start with 24 and 22! The both youngsters without a mistake. Thats a training!!

[el Galactico]

Paris-Nice
Crazy?

Yesterday the team traveled to France to start at the "race to the sun"! Last year we started in Italy to become 3rd with Espinoza at the end! This time its a special tour again, with 481k salary it is the most expensive tour team of the history!
The team wants to win at least one stage and the green jersey at the end. Perhaps there is a chance to win the red one aswell! This will be the only chance to contain the losings at the end of the tour. We hope to get many points and a stage win! Money is secondary, but a little bit of profit is okay too.

After the first 2 stages the team has a 3rd place of Leandro in the sprint today and a loss of only about 118k!

[el Galactico]

Paris-Nice
Step 3 and 4

Yesterday the final with a +4 sprint was an open race but with the help at the last km by Egsdorfer we got a sprint but then the big mistake by Leandro, his wheel sprinted from 50m and he didn't have a teammate to take him oh his own wheel. So at the end there was a very disappointing 7th place.
Today there was the last difficulty 3 kms away from the finish line but a strong selection forced the team behind the big stars so that Leandro only reached the 8th place.

With about 250k losings and some very unlikeable managers in the field we ware very sad and angry about this tour for the moment. Tomorrow will be the mountain step and it will be the first time that youngster Alejandro DeLaTorre is captain of the team. The rest of the team can relax and ragain power for the following stages where the team wants to win at least one stage hopefully.

[el Galactico]

Paris-Nice
Jorge the Great!

Today it was a race for the climbers, the deciding stage of the tour probably! Jorge Felicandes goes into the first group of the day and he profits from the fight for red so that he got pulled a long time. 40 kms before the finish with about 8:30 in front he starts to make tempo with the last cyclist of schelmo. In the bunch there was no big action so that the 2 rescued about 7 minutes when the last climb started. Wesley Boogerd started his attack 3 kms before the end and was able to reduce the lead to 2:47, Jorge won this stage with about 40 seconds before Paul Manu (schelmo) and he leads now the GC with 1:43 in front of the second Wesley Boogerd.

A great day for the team and totally unexpected. Now Jorge wears the yellow and the white jersey as well. A win of about 100k is a great bonus for that too.

With 24 years Jorge got his first victory after winning a mountain jersey 2 months ago. Great!

[el Galactico]

Training 12.3.2010:
Edson Barroso Flach: +1
Luiz Foguete Berg: +1
Luiz Foguete Zeit: -1
Diego DelRios Flach: +1
Jorge Felicandes Berg: +1
Jérome LeBusquet Berg: +1
Jérome LeBusquet Flach: +1
Adriano Perreira Berg: +1
Adriano Perreira Flach: +1
Alejandro DeLaTorre Flach: +1


DeLaTorre with no mountain, really bad this guy, no has to become a 80-70
The rest is simply perfect, but this is crap...

[el Galactico]

Paris-Nice
2 stages and 3 jerseys

Today was the last day from Paris-Nice and with no problems the team defeated again all attacks for the GC-classement so that Jorge Felicandes can now call himself winner of 18h Paris-Nice!
The day after his win at the deciding stage it was Leandro daSouza who was able to win for the second time for the team in this tour. At the end he won the sprint jersey. But thats not all, Felicandes also won the yound riders classement and the team won the teams classement as well. Both times it was the first time to win this thing in the historie of Los Galacticos.

A financial win of 695.560 € shows that the expensive 481k team was a very good investion!

The money was then directly reinvested by selling Sebastian Holsten and by buying a new sprint talent which will join us next month.

Guilherme Callado is a young sprinter from Santos, Brazil. He should become the next hilly sprinter and the follower of superstar Leandro da Souza.

His skills: 50-58-73-48-81

The generation change is now nearly completed except of the two legends -the dream duo Braaten-daSouza!!