Following two years with Australian WorldTour team Mitchelton-Scott, Italian Matteo Trentin is looking forward to a new challenge in 2020 with the Polish CCC team, putting Milan-San Remo at the top of his wish list.

The 30-year-old has six wins in 2019, including a solo victory in the gap on stage 17 of the Tour de France, followed by a silver medal in the Yorkshire world championship road race held in apocalyptic conditions.

"I'm disappointed to have lost a big chance," Trentin told Tuttovici of his World Championships frustration in an interview this weekend.

"I don't know if it will happen again, but I keep telling myself that it would be even worse to go home empty handed because I won the silver medal."

Starting over with a new team and aiming high in prestigious classics like Milan-San Remo, however, will help him put that disappointment in the past.

Trentin has twice finished in the top 10 at the Italian Monument, finishing 10th in both 2016 and this year.

When asked if this is the classic he most wants to win or if winning would change his life, Trentin answered a bit more calmly.

"If I had to pick two races to win, it would be San Remo or the Tour de Flanders. 'All the great classics, the World Championships, the Grand Tours ...... Win any of those and it would change my career.

"But it would be life-changing ...... No, I love what I have now.

"I don't want them to ride bikes. If they insist, I'll steer them toward mountain biking or cyclocross." Unfortunately, training on the road is too dangerous. But this is not just an Italian problem."

When Trentin turned pro with Belgium's Quick Step in 2011, he was one of the few Italian riders to work at the World Tour level with a team outside of Italy. He then spent six seasons with Patrick Lefevere's team before moving to Mitchelton-Scott, and his move to the CCC means that he has yet to ride for an Italian team at the professional level.

"Italy is still one of the historic cycling countries, but it has become very difficult for people trying to run the sport there," Trentin told Tuttovici. 'There is a real lack of teams and structures, and it's hard to get kids to ride. There aren't enough kids on board, so it's hard to find talent."

"But it's a problem linked to the country's economy. If the economy picks up, cycling will pick up again," he said.

Trentin is also always ready to talk about politics and his thoughts on social media, and will continue to do so as he moves to a new team and starts a new season.

"I'm not afraid to say what I have to say. Even politics is moving to social media. In times like these, it's a way to light the fuse," Trentin said. 'Pay attention to what you say and how you say it, and it will work. It doesn't take much to cause pandemonium. That's the beauty and the ugliness of the media, where everyone can say whatever they want."