Setting aside differences, Ferran Torres and Pablo Urdangarin share the same wow factor built on popularity, sporting successes, and even media attention for their changing looks. While the Barça footballer and world champion has swept the scene with his voluminous mid-length hairstyle, the son of Infanta Cristina and Iñaki Urdangarin has also impressed with his new appearance upon returning to work.
Pablo Urdangarin has just rejoined Fraikin BM Granollers after finishing his summer vacation, thus kicking off pre-season. And in his first training session with his teammates he drew attention for his changed image. The young athlete has abandoned his characteristic short, discreet hair swept to one side to adopt, precisely, a style more similar to Ferran Torres’. On social media this look has already been dubbed ‘bro flow’ or ‘middle large executive’.
The nephew of Felipe VI enters the new season with the confidence of having officially renewed his contract with the Catalan team until June 2028. The announcement was made official to consolidate his progression at Granollers after a great individual season. “It’s a club where I feel I’m making an incredible leap and that I couldn’t have made it anywhere else,” Pablo Urdangarin said during his presentation, who has already debuted with the Spain national handball team.
The young athlete continues in this way to emulate Iñaki Urdangarin’s on-court successes, who accumulated an impressive trophy cabinet both at FC Barcelona and with the Spanish national team. Always proud of him, Pablo did not hesitate to give him a warm nod when a journalist asked him what message he would send to his father: “I would tell him that I am also his fan.”
His life in Barcelona with his mother
Despite that strong father-child connection, it is with Infanta Cristina that he now spends more time. Since the daughter of the emeriti moved from Geneva to Barcelona, they have become roommates. Pablo Urdangarin left a few months ago the rented apartment he shared with some friends to move permanently into the new home that his mother purchased and fully renovated in the Catalan capital.
The Infanta Cristina posing with her son Pablo.
The apartment spans about 300 square meters, a spacious living room with an open-plan kitchen, and bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms. But the most significant detail is that the property is located in the exclusive Pedralbes neighborhood, exactly in the same building where he lived with his parents during his childhood. It is a perfect base of operations for the young man, who is about 30 kilometers away from the Palau d’Esports de Granollers, where he trains daily.
Infanta Cristina had moved to Geneva in 2013, an ideal location for her work first at the La Caixa Foundation and then at the Aga Khan Foundation, where she coordinated programs among different agencies. But gradually, her children began leaving the family home. The last to pack their bags were Irene and Miguel, who returned to Switzerland to take a ski instructor course, before moving back to Madrid. Now she faces a new life in Spain, with her family as her top priority.
Pablo Urdangarin’s studies and romantic relationship
The great challenge for Pablo Urdangarin is now to face his demanding daily trainings and weekly matches in the Asobal League, while combining them with his academic studies. The young man continues balancing his work with the Sport Management degree he is studying at the prestigious EU Business School in Barcelona. It is a degree taught in English that fuses business administration with the sports sector.
Exhibiting a media maturity that has earned him the respect of the press, the handball player tries to lead his personal life discreetly. An intimate facet largely marked by his long-standing romantic relationship with Johanna Zott. It is common to see the German girlfriend in the stands at Fraikin BM Granollers supporting her boyfriend, and she also shows an excellent relationship with Infanta Cristina.
