FURIA co-CEO on roster rumors: "Nothing is defined"

3/6/2023 - 12:50

André Akkari spoke to Dust2.com.br in response to whispers placing Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo at the top of FURIA's off-season shopping list.

FURIA's future lineup is still not decided and there is the potential for change, according to André Akkari, the organization's co-CEO, in a comment to Dust2 Brazil.

Akkari's statement comes amid recent rumors of roster changes within the FURIA camp. Brazilian insider, Giovanni "gio" Deniz, claimed on June 2 that FalleN had reached a pre-agreement with the team, and that Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga could also be making a move to the organization.

FURIA, captained by arT, have been struggling as of late

"The season is over now, [the] first part of the year is over. The debates are intense, all possibilities [are being discussed]," Akkari began in his comment to Dust2 Brazil. "They include several options; keep someone, not keep anyone, bring new players. There are a thousand opportunities.

"If I tell you that there is a decision, I am lying, [there is] nothing defined. We have some conversations scheduled with the internal team, people who are with us, we have more conversations with opportunities, possibilities," the CEO continued. "They will happen now, in the next 20 days, so that we can make a decision later."

Potential changes in FURIA's starting lineup won't come as much of a surprise. The Brazilian troupe have been struggling in the server recently, failing to reach the business end at the majority of events they've attended in 2023.

The Brazilian side bowed out of the BLAST.tv Paris Major Legends Stage in joint-last place after putting up a dire 0-3 record and they fell in the group stage of IEM Dallas in their most recent outing. A win over the much smaller Nouns was their only positive takeaway from the event in Texas.

Outside of this, FURIA have been under the spotlight for their uninspiring T-side efforts, something Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan, the team's in-game leader, spoke about in an interview with HLTV at IEM Dallas.

arT: "When you play with so much strategy, you can't see much of what's happening"

The Brazilians won just eight Terrorist rounds during the four maps played in Paris and their recent campaign in Dallas gave way to just 19 T-side round wins over five maps. With FalleN reportedly on FURIA's shopping list, it's possible that the squad aim to switch up the tactical side of their game over the off-season in time for Counter-Strike 2's release later in the summer.

FURIA's current roster is:

Yuri "⁠yuurih⁠" Santos
Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan
Kaike "⁠KSCERATO⁠" Cerato
André "⁠drop⁠" Abreu
Rafael "⁠saffee⁠" Costa

Nicholas "⁠guerri⁠" Nogueira (coach)

kick drop

2023-06-03 12:51

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astralis INSTA improved by kicking xypn9x and replacing him with a 1.0 player. I bet you furia would be instantly better with ANYONE that can consistently make 0.9-1 rating.

2023-06-03 19:44

and arT

2023-06-04 02:52

arT needs to be more tactical.

2023-06-04 06:15

Turtle IN Art Out

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Turtle in drop out. Don't be silly about art, art is the team, without him there is no furia.

2023-06-03 22:14

2023-06-04 02:42

you are right. Art is the team, that's why this team can't win s&*t

2023-06-06 00:41

2023-06-06 02:17

Turtle xdddd

2023-06-04 04:02

I mean make it happen. +FalleN. BR scene is abysmal, at least make the most influential player in BR CS history play for the best team out of there rn. It can't get worse cause FURIA is bad itself.

2023-06-03 12:52

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thatd be a huge mistake. fallen is so washed up its not even funny and fer is a joke now and has been for atleast 3 years now. if furia does this they will go from a constant in the top ten and competative playoff team regularly to being out in group stage every single time if they even get invites once they become the trash they will be with fallen and fers old asses

2023-06-03 21:31

2 replies

Just look at Fer stats in last major he played for imperial. U are Just hating for free

2023-06-03 22:11

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What he means is it's not sustainable. I would argue that adding Fallen might help the team but adding fer? That would be a mistake.

2023-06-04 15:43

most influential so contract him to make tiktoks, cuz hes one of the worst awpers atm, saffee much better and saffee sucks.

2023-06-04 02:43

the only sollution is hen1 skullz biguzera igl ksecerato yuriih

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this would actually be sick

2023-06-03 13:01

YES, this a team i would like to see. Brazillians keep thinking falling is a GOD. But he is a shadow of his former self

2023-06-03 13:31

Google translate?

2023-06-03 14:55

the guy said a falling kkkkkkkkk

2023-06-03 15:19

+1 Unfortunately

2023-06-03 16:07

L google translate go learn some english buddy

2023-06-04 02:11

five players that can click heads, this remembers me of prime astralis.

2023-06-03 13:44

i swear this team could be top 5 easy

2023-06-03 14:07

Nice team. Shit, now i'm dreaming about a team that will never happen.

2023-06-03 14:11

This is probably the best team they can get, but that means someone will probably have to change his roles a lot. Maybe biguzera can be IGL + support?

2023-06-03 14:36

sounds good, indeed!

2023-06-03 17:11

Skullz in less than 6 months will stop being consistent and people will start to blame him, besides kscerato and yuurih there is no one in brazil playing at top level for a long time, latto, dumau, even drop did it and fell off, the same will happen with insani and skullz. A brazilian "superteam" needs proved players.

2023-06-03 23:38

you are very stupid man, insani is very good and will only get better, skullz too, the guys just need to continue at this pace but with a better team maybe. "proven players"? there is none proven player performing well recently, it just proves his stupidity.

2023-06-04 06:47

2023-06-04 13:35

This is the team that every Brazilian would like to see right now.

2023-06-04 06:48

Probably the best possibly BR team right now

2023-06-04 07:11

2023-06-04 16:40

3rd

-arT +falleN -drop +chelo

2023-06-03 12:53

7 replies

chello is pure pug aim, no brain

2023-06-03 18:53

2023-06-04 07:12

saffee is being replaced by FalleN, not arT

2023-06-03 20:16

-arT -drop +FalleN +fer Confirmed

2023-06-03 20:53

You think fer will come back from retirement?

2023-06-03 22:04

He told 2 days ago on twitch he would if it was to play with kscerato + yuriih

2023-06-03 23:06

Yep, and this is a very stupid decision.

So - drop -saffee +Fallen +Fer? Idk dude this aint good for the longevity of the roster

2023-06-03 12:54

Why +fer ??

2023-06-03 12:56

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fer is good.

2023-06-03 14:17

yea, 7 years ago

2023-06-03 14:35

actually 1 year ago, also coming from more than 6 months without playing hltv.org/stats?event=6372

2023-06-03 14:50

lol

2023-06-03 21:56

He played good at the last major

2023-06-04 07:13

Fallen probably requested it, plus Brazilian players nowadays have ridiculous buyouts even for mediocre players so imagine for the actually good ones and we all know Furia doesn't like to spend money and Fer is free agent... With that said I also think it's a bad move, with all the money they will get selling Fallen's merch they could at least invest some to get someone like skullz or insani but I guess money is all they cares about...

2023-06-03 16:58

Fer was a beast in the first semester last year, he was popping heads against t1 teams In the second semester he declined on performance but also had personal problems He’s way more trustworthy for the role of 5th player on this team than Insani or Skullz (both are the upcoming talents in our country, but have problems dealing with high pressure situations).

2023-06-03 17:17

2023-06-03 20:11

lol bro you only pick the stats when imperial lost and did a bad game ! Take the all data and do the correct analysis

2023-06-03 20:54

2023-06-03 23:08

inb4 another failed project with BR retired players playing with young prime talents

2023-06-03 13:00

Why making an article about this? Furia is irrelevant to cs scene anyway

2023-06-03 13:03

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More relevant than any france team

2023-06-03 13:06

France 2.5 majors 3 top 1 Poland + Brazil how many ? + He was right furia is completely shit rn kcerato can't 1v5 every game but hey keep talking about other people's flag when u don't have any argument

2023-06-03 20:25

poland +brazil has at least 3 majors you clown. vp won once and sk and lg both won. frenchie cant do basic math

2023-06-03 22:51

WOW AMAZING 2 COUNTRIES BARELY HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF MAJORS AS ONE !! btw u may have not read the other half of my sentence.. on purpose or stupidity idk + reported for your last sentence

2023-06-04 00:06

Copium

2023-06-04 07:19

Dude named "GoIMP" and fake france flag? Chora viuvinha da imperial!

2023-06-03 14:58

pls dont +fallen

2023-06-03 13:05

I don't like this idea either. But unfortunately, it will probably be... Fer + Fallen -> FURIA OR Fer + Kscerato -> Imperial

2023-06-03 14:02

Ah, Fer and Fallen, the biggest paycheck stealers of all time Fer need that sweet money to keep injecting anabolics and keep creating drama to get any kind of exposure, after that he will "retire" AGAIN then come back to steal more paychecks, overrated washed player Two Faced Toledo, the career ruiner, being garbage at the game since the SK days, havent improved since Furia is doomed.

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Fer doesn't need paychecks, he've gotten lots of passive incomes in Brazil. He's pretty rich tbh, same applies to Gabriel.

2023-06-03 13:47

It makes me wonder, how do Fer have this much money? He's probably richer than Fallen.

2023-06-03 14:16

Fer owns one of the most popular skin selling sites in Brazil, he's rich rich but I'm pretty sure Fallen is richer.

2023-06-03 14:38

betting (/skin trade/"upgrade") sites money basically, definitely not because of something actually good to the community like Fallen and GC/Fallen Store

2023-06-03 17:02

Third party skin websites aren’t bad. About the betting side idk

2023-06-03 17:18

proskins.gg "Skin Upgrade" sites are basically online cassinos in disguise, the way the make money is the same, which is basically offering the users slightly unfavorable bets, but at least in real cassinos they are honest and their clients knows exactly what they are getting into (an unfavorable bet).

2023-06-03 20:18

Also real cassinos are regulated and you can trust that they follow the odds allowed by law. Not the shady ones obviously.

2023-06-03 21:37

You didn't understand this skin upgrade stuff, it's not like the casino ones, they also buy skins so you can give your skin + money to trade/upgrade to another one you liked on the site.

2023-06-03 23:14

furia is already bad maybe they do not need fallen and fer, but changes are needed if the project aims to have relevance in t1 CS

2023-06-05 20:41

-art -saffee -drop confirmed

2023-06-03 13:07

I hope so And then +biguzera +nqz/hen1 +skullz

2023-06-04 07:21

-drop -saffee please

2023-06-03 13:10

Like saffee has kinda good rating? Haven't watched alot but what makes him the player to change?

2023-06-03 13:21

he is like the third best awper at SA and furia needs at leasy the top1 awper SA (Hen1)

2023-06-03 13:33

1.01 rating 0.95 impact big events 2023 while being the primary awper...

Saffee literally farms the top 30 teams, but doesn't do shit against top 10.

Not like we have any other awp that is any different tho, the major difference is that Furia don't play much against tier 3/4 Br/Na teams so he doesn't get to farm stats as much as the others...

2023-06-03 20:21

damn rip n9thing

2023-06-03 13:16

I’d like to see them (falleN and fer) signing with FURIA only because I don’t want the core of paiN being changed. Hardzao, biguzera and skullz needs to stick together. NEKIZ is doing a decent job so far and we have to give time to zevy.

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That's not how you build the best BR team. Pick the best players KSCERATO (best br player) insani . . .

2023-06-03 13:32

leave Insani at MIBR and bring Hen1 an Bigu Art Bigu Hen1 Yuurih Ksc

2023-06-03 13:37

>art Kekw.

2023-06-04 07:22

i dont see Zevy improving anymore (he is going to be a father) I would prefer to put History or Nqz at Zevy's place at PaiN

2023-06-03 13:35

if u see, at the start of the year, Zevy had like 1,25 KDR farmed at NA. Now he has barely 1,15

2023-06-03 13:36

Yeah unfortunately I think zevy isn’t good enough for tier 1. Between history and nqz, history has a lower ceiling but seems more constant to me. Nqz is a beast and then disappear the next game

2023-06-03 17:20

I agree with the copycat

Ty my number #2 fan

2023-06-03 14:41

Need FalleN for Saffee and skullz for drop

2023-06-03 13:28

BIGUZERA, ZEVY, ART, KSCERATO, YUURIH EZ TOP5 HLTV

2023-06-03 13:30

would prefer that than +fallen and +fer

Preferable: biguzera kscerato yuurih/insani skullz nqz/hen1

2023-06-04 07:24

-drop -saffe +falleN +fergod

Saffee is a better awper

two faced Andre Akkari

-Art -safee -yuurih or drop +Biguzera +Skullz +zevy +Kscerato Ezzz top 5

Nqz and Hen1 > zevy

2023-06-04 07:25

Kick arT, his face and name doesnt sound brazilian tho

wtf

2023-06-03 14:37

MKKKKKKK

Wait until you play 9z with Imperial, I bought the fucking Tickets to watch el profesor

2023-06-03 13:55

rip

-saffee -yurrih - kasserate - dropout +fnx

2023-06-03 14:42

Brazilian CS fell off lol..

2023-06-03 14:56

Please just rebuild around yuurih and KSCERATO. Keeping saffee is their best bet for an AWPer unless they can get someone like lucaozy or HEN1. Also, please do not get older, washed up players that will just steal paychecks. Give younger players a chance at IGLing unless FalleN is absolutely the only option available for them. I honestly don't know how good of a coach guerri is, but maybe FalleN could be their coach instead if they're hell bent on picking him up. As for the last 1 or 2 player slots, I'm not sure who else FURIA could get realistically, but the Brazilian scene has to have a decently sized talent pool. If they want to "poach" players, they could look at MIBR, Fluxo, and/or O PLANO.

The thing is, after all this years of CSGO the only good IGLs are fallen and biguzera (who nobody saw coming). Other IGL options? Art, TACO, coldzera, kng, showtime, yell lol Since biguzera isn’t going nowhere they have to stick with fallen

2023-06-03 17:23

This, it's a fact that they need some sort of change in their leadership, because Art and Guerri have been trying to change their style for a while now but it looks like they have hit a wall in that front, but I don't think they necessarily need to change the IGL, if Fallen would just retire already (we all know it's about time) and join them as coach this might just be enough honesty, that and getting an actual good and consistent player instead of Drop, there multiple options for this really, like Skullz, Insani, Biguzera or even Lucaozy, shit even Vini would be better. And for the Awper I also think there is not really any better options than Saffee, so unless he is fully tilted, they should just keep him

2023-06-03 20:30

Try to get cold, support IGL. Art to Entry. Santino Try to AWP is better lineup for them.

2023-06-04 08:09

+fallen = team goes to shit and barely stays on a surface due to his fans

2023-06-03 15:45

FURIA +Fallen +Fer = Pain will be the best Brazilian team.

2023-06-03 16:06

>barely stays on a surface due to his fans Tbh the team would be much richer

2023-06-04 07:29

Fallen still the best igl and awper in Brazil not his fault that there is no one who manage to be t1 playerile ks and yuurih Also fer still better than the majority of br players for sure better than drop and saffe we can argue that they could find a better rifler but no really a big improve over fer since he is x10000 more experience

2023-06-03 15:48

Also Fer playstyle is more about gamesense and experience to make it work than a young aim thing.

2023-06-03 15:52

Best take so far on this thread

Nt Even nqz and zevy are better awpers. Fallen is just still worth it for being a tier 1 IGL and support.

2023-06-04 07:30

There is no reason to get Fer thought, as his level is falling every year and he has literally been retired for the last 7 months, and on the other hand you have players like Skullz, Biguzera and Insani that have already reached his level and even exceeded him and on contrary of him, are getting better and better.

2023-06-03 20:34

How about they try to get Cold as IGL/support, and get Santino Try of 9z to awp, Art to entry frag. Actually coldzera has decent calls as IGL for 00nation. It's just the team is so inexperienced and so passive.

2023-06-04 08:16

+ FalleN + Fer 3 years contract, enjoy 10 tournaments win.

2023-06-03 15:54

tier10 tournaments** like redzone pro liga and 1xplore

2023-06-03 16:09

if FalleN is their awper this is just another carry job for kscerato. I guess if fer isnt washed this is not a bad move? tho last time fallen joined a big team as igl (TL) he wasnt amazing, and then made a excuse he 'was out of the meta' after 6 months on the team and gave back igling duties to stewie2k

2023-06-03 16:28

Not true, fallen entered Liquid and after like two months of practice it became their IGL, leading them to 3rd place in Katowice. Then they bomb out early on a BLAST showdown or Pro League (don’t remember correctly, but they got 2-0’d by Dignitas) and Stewie turned into their IGL again. Apparently, Stew and Elige didn’t liked FalleN’s calling too much so this became a problem. Stew lead them to a RMR event victory against FURIA, their only trophie of that year but playing against only NA teams. This gave him credit to IGL most of the time, but apparently there was more shifts to fallen calling again during the year. It was a mess

2023-06-03 17:28

this report made me realize that maybe we were too hasty to believe the rumors... maybe the changes in Furia will be totally different from what we were expecting

2023-06-03 17:15

I hope God hears you

FalleN got top 9-11 at Antwerp playing with fuckin FNX that didnt play since like 2018, Fer that didnt play for more than a year, boltz that was not playing in tier 1 since 2019 and Vini that was the only one playing in tier 1 before, FalleN is totally capable, as is fer if he brings that form to furia

Yeah except that after that, they changed Fnx for a better player all around and got eliminated 0-3 of challengers stage, and then after they got another star player from Mibr (third best BR team at the time) to replace Fer they didn't even qualified for the major...

2023-06-03 20:39

-arT -drop -saffee +biguzera +skullz +HEN1 HEN1 Skullz Biguzera (IGL) Yuurih KSCERATO Best possible BR team atm, please make it happen.

2023-06-03 17:27

+1 But I still think that the awper with the greatest potential is nqz, I believe that with time he can become the br sh1ro

2023-06-04 07:31

This team need smart players

2023-06-03 18:25

Yep biguzera

The fucks a co-ceo

2023-06-03 18:51

if you take fallen and fer you arent even trying to win anymore just disband

2023-06-03 18:52

Saw the Furia team out eating in Dallas with guerri. Did not see drop or saffee with them. Jus sayin'

2023-06-03 19:37

Did you take a photo?

2023-06-03 20:40

Briefly took a crappy one of art and yuurih eating together after everyone else left.

2023-06-03 21:01

bring hen1 back and get some good rifler from the thousands of tier 2 BR teams

2023-06-03 19:57

-drop -saffee +Fer +FalleN

Basically just recycle a bunch of players who have zero results lately. “Smart” move. You wonder why BR scene is in the bin.

2023-06-03 20:31

NA talking

2023-06-04 07:32

fer god

2023-06-03 20:57

-saffee +HEN1/zevy/history -drop +Lucaozy/skullz/insani

2023-06-03 21:07

+cogu +fnx = easy major

Call me mad man, but honestly, I kinda want them to bring back old FURIA style, I think it could work with better players, we live in an era of individuals having a much bigger meaning than before, swap out drop and saffee for some fresh hungry young talent, keep arT as an IGL and roll back the years, I want that for FURIA, I don't want FalleN.

2023-06-03 21:52

Unpopular opinion : drop is actually good he just need a better team around him and a little bit of freedom

2023-06-03 22:36

This is oldest bait on hltv :|

2023-06-04 07:34

- art / drop / safee +fallen / fer / insani

2023-06-04 01:28

Lol

2023-06-04 06:57

Both of these guys were great, but they are both well over 30 now. Furia has more than enough experience in their core players. What they need is good br sniper and support that does not have as bad rating as drop. They obv need -drop. Should not be a problem there a lot of good young players out there. -safee will be maybe a bit more tricky, but stil... If they wanna make hype for one season, sign legends before cs2 comes out, whatever. They are likely still an upgrade. But long term it makes zero sense.

2023-06-04 07:35

Guys the only fix to ANY team. +stewie2k ez win

2023-06-04 09:05

FalleN calls can carry Furia to their first trophy

2023-06-04 14:39

arT FalleN insani Kscerato yuurih

2023-06-04 23:06