Hi readers of my blog!

I got home a few days ago when the manager of Lierse-Pizza Ullo showed up. He gave me a great contract! I am an absolute leader and will be around this team for two seasons and if all goes well even more! I feel I can really blossom here! I am coming to the end of my time but I still have some energy left yet. I already have my flight tickets from Buenos Aires to the teams base in Belgium. The tea is a football team and I have been following a few of their matches recently. Now I want to show what I can do in the teams colours on some of the biggest climbs of the world.

I feel I am a very similar rider to Bradley Wiggins, I hope I am maybe even a bit better! A grand tour victory can be achieved and I will hopefully participate in as many as I can as I am already thirty-two. I have a lot of talent and I can improve this season so that next season I will be a tour contender. I can probably compete for Le Tour now though but I have some work to do if I want to have a true shot at overall victory. I started in cyclo cross and I have been successful there for many years, my best achievement being the victory of the world championship in 2008 ahead of Sven Nys. Since then I have been plagues with some injuries and this has made my cyclo cross career slightly worse. I have won many races in my time and the transition from mud to the road has so far been smooth.

I was twenty three when I started my first professional year and I was a domestique on Sven Nys' team. He taught me some things and soon I rose through the ranks the following two years. By age twenty-six I was winning minor races and supporting Sven Nys in the big races. However, on race Sven fell ill and I took up the reins for myself. Shocking a large amount of people, I claimed victory. With my contract running out I left for a different team to see how I could fare when I was in direct competition with him.

I won the opening super prestige race of my twenty-seventh year but I was still much in the shadow of Sven. His talent was shocking and I feel he is the greatest cyclo cross rider of all time, his sheer longevity at the top is something to marvel at! He won the Belgian championships that year but at the World's a breakaway out-rode us both. Going into 2008 everyone was prepared for the most intense cyclo cross year of all time.

We essentially shared out the wins for a while, out-sprinting each other. Then we met at the pen-ultimate race of the season, right before the World Championships. He won but still trailed me going into the final race: The World Championship itself. I attacked and attacked and attacked. He eventually couldn't keep together and cracked and I rode to a spectacular solo win. However, I could never quite get the same motivation to win after that season, it took a lot out of me and I had some injuries to deal with as well.

I speak some Italian which will help me as I know absolutely nothing of any other European language except Spanish which is the national language of Argentina. I am looking forward to finding out who my team mates are, I need a team to be able to achieve many of my goals this season.

Thanks for reading everyone!

L. Gonzalez