Filippo Pozzato (Wilier-Selle Italia) is hoping to earn a place on the Italian team for what he says would be the final World Championships of his career in Bergen next month. The 35-year-old has said that next season will be the last of his professional career and he acknowledged that he will not be a contender for selection for the tough 2018 Worlds in Innsbruck.
“I eased off for ten days and then started preparing for the end of the season because I want to be in Bergen,” Pozzato told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “It’s my last opportunity to wear a jersey to which I am particularly attached.”
Pozzato confirmed that 2018 will be his final season in the peloton and suggested that he will try to create a new professional team once he hangs up his wheels, perhaps with Ignazio Moser, formerly of the BMC development team.
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“Next year will be my last season but I’m not thinking about the Worlds, which will be for the climbers. I want to do a very good four months: up to the end of the Classics, I want to be super, but in any case, I’ll finish out the season before I launch myself into a new project,” Pozzato said.
“Italy needs [a new team]. It could start off as a Pro Continental team and with a new vision, which would be more captivating for the sponsors too. And with new people, young people.”
Bergen
Pozzato’s first outing in Italy's maglia azzurra at the World Championships came in Valkenburg in 1998, when he took the silver medal in the junior road race behind Ireland’s Mark Scanlon and bronze behind Fabian Cancellara in the time trial.
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