While preparing for his last carousel ride - an appointment starting Tuesday 18th at the Six Days of Ghent, which he will race in pair with Jasper De Buyst - Elia Viviani is currently designing his own future.

And there are two paths he is pursuing, certainly not divergent but potentially concurrent: as Ciro Scognamiglio anticipated in La Gazzetta dello Sport, the federal council scheduled for Saturday, November 22nd will define the Prophet's entry into the National Team's ranks.

For the Verona champion, who officially closed his career by winning the elimination world title for the third time, a managerial role rather than a technical one is taking shape, very close to the federal president's figure, definitely not a track team coach role because the Los Angeles 2028 project has officially started with the current staff, which has been fully confirmed.

The second path leads to Ineos Grenadiers: Elia was in Great Britain recently to attend Geraint Thomas's farewell party, he raced with the team from 2015 to 2017 and then from 2022 to 2024, and for him there could be a role in the staff that Sir Dave Brailsford is rebuilding, still to be determined whether as a strictly technical role or as an all-round consultant. A role, however, that will not be incompatible with the national team position.