djL to join NIP coaching staff

8/1/2022 - 15:26

The Swedish organization picked up the former Copenhagen Flames and GamerLegion tactician ahead of the 2022 season.

Ninjas in Pyjamas's COO Jonas "⁠calc⁠" Gundersen confirmed that Ninjas in Pyjamas will be adding Daniel "⁠djL⁠" Narancic to their coaching staff on Saturday. The short Twitter announcement came as a response to Dexerto's report linking the 27-year-old Swede to the Head Coach position.

"It's true that djL is joining our coaching staff," calc wrote, leaving the exact role of the coach vague. "Just wait for the announcement, and the full picture will be given - we are all still on player break."

NIP will reveal more details about the addition in the coming days

Ninjas in Pyjamas have been on the lookout for a Head Coach since Björn "⁠THREAT⁠" Pers transition to the role of Technical Director in December, with the team's COO standing behind the team to fill in the gap at the last event of 2021, the BLAST Premier World Final.

As a player, djL is know for his escapades in the Swedish sub-top, often playing alongside twins Joakim "⁠Relaxa⁠" Gustafsson and Fredrik "⁠FREDDyFROG⁠" Gustafsson in teams such as Japaleno, Red Reserve, and Chaos. He had an international foray with Epsilon in 2018, playing alongside Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer, but slowly transitioned into coaching in 2019.

He worked with Hampus "⁠hampus⁠" Poser's GamerLegion, as well as c0ntact, Copenhagen Flames, and Apeks either as an assistant or main coach before getting the call up to the best Swedish team, Ninjas in Pyjamas.

Ninjas in Pyjamas are now:

Fredrik "⁠REZ⁠" Sterner
Nicolas "⁠Plopski⁠" Gonzalez Zamora
Hampus "⁠hampus⁠" Poser
Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz
Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen

Daniel "⁠djL⁠" Narancic (coaching staff)

2022-01-08 15:27

rip navi era

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2022-01-08 17:49

hahahahha +era akuma

2022-01-08 19:10

Nice

2022-01-08 15:28

They really did replace Threat for some noname guy?

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wouldnt say hes a nonamer, he has been for quite some time in the swedish cs scene and tier 2 scene as far as i know so who knows maybe it could workout

2022-01-08 15:31

It is really necessary, threat haven't been performing. Have you even watched NIPs T-side?

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Ok, get devilwalk then. This djL guy was around for quite an time as I understood and achieved pretty much nothing. Even in tier2.

2022-01-08 15:35

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You have no idea how coaching works man

I mean they didnt confirm djl as head coach now they just said that he will be joining the coaching staff so they still might get devilwalk on the off chance although i dont really know why they would get 2 coaches

2022-01-08 21:35

What did xtqzz achieve as a player in tier 3? He's gonna coach not play.

2022-01-09 00:26

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I mean as coach, not as player

2022-01-09 05:28

they didnt replace him right? he didnt want to be coach anymore, i heard something like that

2022-01-08 18:01

Exactly! He wanted to be able to focus on the tactical parts since it hasn’t been possible to do so as head coach.

2022-01-08 18:28

threat himself wanted to get more tactical in the background, thats why they used calc for some events

2022-01-08 18:38

ez $32k for him

2022-01-08 15:30

is that friberg ?

twin brother

2022-01-08 15:37

nice. this is just one more reason for device to go back to astralis and create second era

expected

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How?

cuz I read twitter and the nip ceo tweeted about it

can u pls send the link, because i cant find such a tweet.

2022-01-08 16:30

Fake Friberg

lmao

worst player ive seen in csgo since cs 1.6

2022-01-08 15:32

2022-01-08 15:33

Device went from being coached by goat alpha zonic to being coached by beta unaccomplished noname

2022-01-08 15:41

Threat is much better

devilwalk is better than both

2022-01-08 17:11

HeatoN is better

2022-01-08 18:14

noice

There we go, I really hope this works out for them!

2022-01-08 15:45

The individual names on nip are insane, but they just don't feel like a team.

2022-01-08 15:48

Again, Coach is not a problem even if NIP gets coaches like Blad3, XQTZZ they won't win anything the problem here is players.

2022-01-08 15:53

They need a proper igl as coach so hampus can learn to igl. He is shit as igl

2022-01-08 15:57

Golden when?

2022-01-08 15:56

Making new team with flusha and jw

2022-01-08 18:15

im still waiting for -device i believe that he will leave his teammates, i know it

He cant 4 year contract with NIP

2022-01-08 18:41

They can sell him and buy 2 good and perspective players or one good.

2022-01-08 19:01

Not headcoach I hope Edit: Fuck I should read before posting comments

2022-01-08 16:07

This is great for them actually! Best cs-mind in Sweden at the current meta. People talking him down here knows nothing at all.

2022-01-08 16:06

tEcHnIcAl dIrEcToR More play he is getting a paycheck for doing nothing.

2022-01-08 16:15

I hate djL solely for taking my username on everything. djl is my initials, I used it as my username for a long ass time

2022-01-08 16:23

Dwayne Johnson Larsson we found him

2022-01-08 17:52

bro he took mine as well wtf

2022-01-08 18:17

LMAO

2022-01-08 19:00

God damnit, you got me

2022-01-08 19:33

It’s fooking joke

2022-01-08 16:29

Decent

2022-01-08 16:36

Its funny how people say both ”who” and ”Ohh this is a bad move bla bla bla”. How many of you who say this is bad, actually know who he is and how much he knows about cs? You understand that you dont have to have been a superstar in the game, to actually know alot of the game?

2022-01-08 16:43

very nice very pog will be a great coach

2022-01-08 16:50

No coach can fix this disaster team lol. what a delusional team

2022-01-08 17:08

LOL, goes the Faze fan