The video has gotten almost half a million views so far. The sentiment is almost universal for pro cycling fans: Paul Seixas, please don’t sign for UAE.
Creator Kilian Willems (Killow on Youtube) has written numerous short songs about cycling, including a 2023 anthem about German Mieke Kröger, but the song he posted last month has gained enough momentum to go viral.
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Back in March, after Seixas finished second behind Tadej Pogačar in Strade Bianche, Cyclingnews published an article about rumours that had surfaced that UAE Team Emirates-XRG were interested in signing Seixas from the Decathlon CMA CGM team.
“I was visiting my parents at that time, and I had none of my recording equipment or anything that I usually have,” he explained of the simple guitar and voice production. “I did not expect it to pop up like that at all.”
Already the number one team for several years running, UAE Team Emirates-XRG have been so dominant they hardly need to thin down the competition by signing the only rider able to hold onto Pogačar’s wheel in Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Since the rumours surfaced in March, there have been reports that French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron was personally involved in ensuring that Seixas remained in the French team.
While Willems’ song may not influence cycling transfers, he clearly hit a nerve with the topic – the Instagram post has almost 450,000 likes.
“It’s just crazy with what confidence [Seixas rides] and with how little time to adapt. He just goes in these races. He’s 19, but still, he gets the whole team like…
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