The Spanish team Karpin-Galicia will become Xacobeo-Galicia beginning with the Vuelta a España, and continuing on for the 2009 season. The newly-named squad became the latest in a series of teams to find new sponsorship during the 2008 season. CSC, High Road and Slipstream all secured new title sponsors (Saxo Bank, Columbia Sportswear and Garmin, respectively) prior to the Tour de France.
The UCI Professional Continental squad earned its Vuelta invite with sound results over the past two seasons which included a fifth place overall for Ezequiel Mosquera in last year's race. Since that time, the squad has won the Volta a Cataluñya ProTour race with Gustavo César Veloso, the Presidential Tour of Turkey with David Garcia Dapena, a stage of the Basque Tour with David Herrero Llorente, and the Clasica de Alcobendas with Mosquera.
