Former Milan-San Remo winner, Filippo Pozzato has said that his current two-year contract with Southeast will be the last of his career, and he will retire at the end of the 2017 season. The Italian says that he hopes to remain in cycling following his retirement by creating his own team.
“I want only two years more, this year and next year,” Pozzato told Cyclingnews ahead of the final stage of the Tour de San Luis last Sunday. “After my career, I want to try to become a team manager and to give to the riders what I didn’t have in another team. To give the possibility of being professional at the best time.”
Pozzato has been a long-standing member of the peloton and has a wealth of experience after turning professional with Mapei-QuickStep in 2000. He has ridden for a wide variety of teams including Fassa Bortolo, Liquigas, Katusha and most recently Lampre-Merida. He is hoping to build his new team with his current Southeast team manager Angelo Citracca, and he has already been putting in the work to set it up. Pozzato has big ambitions for his project, but that will have to wait a little longer as he focusses on the remainder of his racing career.
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“First of all, I would like it to be Pro Continental and then after for sure I would love it to become a WorldTour team. For one year, I have already been in contact with sponsors, but it is difficult. I think for a WorldTour team you have to be working at it for two years only for this, and now I don’t have time, afterwards, maybe it is possible.”
Back home and dreaming of Flanders
Pozzato signed a two-year deal with the Southeast-Venezuela team last December after months of speculation. After spending all but one season at the top level of cycling, Pozzato denies that it is a step back for him and says that little has altered for him in 2016.
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