Movistar Team (men's team)

Movistar Team

Team information
UCI code	MOV
Registered	Spain
Founded	1980 (1980)
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	UCI WorldTeam
Bicycles	Canyon
Components	SRAM
Website	Team home page
Key personnel
General manager	Eusebio Unzué
Team manager(s)	José Vicente García Pablo Lastras Max Sciandri Patxi Vila
Team name history
1980–1989 Reynolds 1990–2000 Banesto 2001–2003 iBanesto.com 2004–2005 Illes Balears–Banesto 2005 Illes Balears–Caisse d'Epargne 2006 Caisse d'Epargne–Illes Balears 2007–2010 Caisse d'Épargne 2011– Movistar Team
Current season

Movistar Team (UCI team code: MOV) is a professional road bicycle racing team which participates at UCI WorldTeam level and has achieved thirteen general classification (GC) victories in Grand Tours. The title sponsor is the Spanish mobile telephone company Telefónica, with the team riding under the name of the company's brand Movistar.^[1]

The team was formed as Reynolds, led by Ángel Arroyo and later by Pedro Delgado, who won a Tour de France and a Vuelta a España, and was subsequently sponsored by Banesto, under which name the team included five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin and Alex Zülle, twice winner of the Vuelta a España. The team offices are in Egüés, in Navarre, Spain.^[2] A later sponsor was Caisse d'Épargne, a French semi-cooperative banking group.

Having previously used Pinarello bikes, the team rode Canyon frames in 2014, with Campagnolo parts. Since 2008, Eusebio Unzué has been the manager of the team after the long running manager, José Miguel Echavarri, retired from the sport. The directeurs sportifs of the team are José Vicente García, Pablo Lastras, José Luis Jaimerena, Patxi Vila and Max Sciandri.^[3]