After a brilliant season in which for the second consecutive year the UAE Team Emirates has been crowned the best UCI World Tour Team, the team is shaping its squad for 2025. With the aim of maintaining, and even surpassing, the number of victories achieved in 2024 (81 in total) the squad has announced the joining four new faces. Below we review the runners who will join the team of Tadej Pogacar next seasonawaiting a possible new announcement in the coming weeks.
1
Jonathan Narváez
27 years
The current champion of Ecuador The road cycling team joined the Emirati team for the two subsequent seasons after spending six years with the INEOS Grenadiers. In 11 wins With his record as a professional, Narváez will provide more experience as a runner who specializes in finished quickly and, above all, to one day race.
2
Rune Herregodts
26 years
The Belgian, from Intermarché-Wanty, has landed in the UAE with the aim of improving the team’s ambitions in ‘Northern classics’as well as to add more power to time trialsa specialty in which he is the strongest. Herregodts is in the Emirates team, at least until end of 2026.
3
Florian Vermeersch
25 years
He runner-up of the Gravel World Championship in 2023 came with the intention of contributing his experience to them more difficult terrain and also to spring classics, where the Belgian showed good determination. Like the two earlier cyclists, Vermeersch also had signed for two years.
4
Pablo Torres
19 years
The Madrid native is the youngest among the names currently appearing in the UAE squad for the next campaign. Towers will make the jump to the WorldTour After spending a year on the development team, the UAE Gen Z. In his case, and as a sign of the confidence placed in his potential, his contract has a longer duration, until 2030.
Source: La Verdad
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