FURIA announce chelo benching

11-4-2025 17:14

The Brazilian player has been removed from the starting lineup ahead of the Major.

FURIA have removed Marcelo "⁠chelo⁠" Cespedes from the starting lineup and placed him on the bench, the Brazilian organization announced on Friday. The decision comes after a disappointing start to the season for the Brazilian team, which has yet to reach the playoffs of an event in 2025.

chelo made his final appearance for FURIA at PGL Bucharest, where the team got off to a winning start after defeating Betclic but then lost three straight series against Complexity, Virtus.pro and The MongolZ.

In a voice message sent to fans shortly after the team's elimination in Bucharest, FURIA CEO André Akkari said that while changes were being discussed, there was "very little" they could do before the Austin Major because "most of the good and medium quality players are already qualified."

FalleN: "I do believe we have the team to be able to do bigger things"

chelo joined FURIA's ranks in July 2023 alongside Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo after the Brazilian organization moved on from André "⁠drop⁠" Abreu and Rafael "⁠saffee⁠" Costa. During his time on the roster, the team notably won Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 and reached the semi-finals of YaLLa Compass 2024 and IEM Rio 2024.

FURIA have a month to find a new player before their next event, PGL Astana, which kicks off on May 10. The Brazilian team will also attend IEM Dallas (May 19-25) before the Austin Major, where they will begin their campaign in Stage 2.

FURIA currently have:

Yuri "⁠yuurih⁠" Santos
Kaike "⁠KSCERATO⁠" Cerato
Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo
Felipe "⁠skullz⁠" Medeiros

Sid "⁠sidde⁠" Macedo (coach)

Marcelo "⁠chelo⁠" Cespedes (benched)

About a year too late

2025-04-11 17:16

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He just couldn't shut up for the whole year

2025-04-11 17:18

the most FURIA thing of all time would be getting another old washed brazilian paycheck stealer +fer incoming

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I think FailleN will lobby someone of his old buddies to steal some paychecks

2025-04-11 17:21

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Furia CEO gave an interview and seems like they are planning to make fallen coach after the major.

2025-04-11 17:24

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They should have made this move since the very beginning. Let's be honest, Gabriel was just stealing salary for no impact on the server for years. As a coach he should be great.

2025-04-11 17:25

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who will igl? maybe this move right now will bring an awper, so fallen could focus only on igl until he become a coach?

2025-04-11 17:29

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biguzera, obviously. Who else?

2025-04-11 17:30

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It is easier Donald Trump became a Chinese than biguzera joins FURIA

2025-04-11 17:31

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Fair enough, but we both know that the only option for the Brazilian scene is to combine all the big boys (biguzera, KSCERATO, yuurih, insani etc) in a superteam. Otherwise it will always be about making a major for the sticker money and nothing more.

2025-04-11 17:34

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Yeah, we all know that. But hey are ok with the sticker money, so... We talk about this for like 2 years and nothing changes. Sad.

2025-04-11 17:35

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Yeah, money talks, just like anywhere in this world. Unfortunately. The whole CS-community wants Brazilian elite team just as eager as you do. The best should play with the best.

2025-04-11 17:43

Skullz and Fallen need to leave ASAP too... they are just trash. Yuri later.

2025-04-11 21:24

lux

2025-04-11 19:31

WTFFFFFF, Please predict who will win the major, or will i ever have sex with a baddie?

2025-04-12 22:11

I don't believe Furia would get him, because they had some issue in the past. Although he already said he would play for Furia, he even asked to join in the past. But believing or not, Peacemaker said on a video Fer would be the better option. RIP brazilians. Thats why we can't win shit.

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Brazil needs to lock in and get Kscerato,Snow,Biguzera on the same team. Then get an awper and someone like David aswell

2025-04-11 17:26

Kscerato Insani Bigu Snow/Skullz AWP?? Gzzzz. Nqz is ok, hen1 too old but on lan he shows up. Saadzin? We got nothing

2025-04-11 17:37

nqz is the most promising

2025-04-11 17:38

Nqz Lan last 12months top5 - 0.90 top10 - 0.99 top20 - 1.02 Don't get me wrong, I like the dude but not enough.

2025-04-11 17:44

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damn, i assumed he would be at 1.05 ish eye test he seemed reasonable

2025-04-12 12:15

BIGU IS NOT BETTER THAN FALLEN, HE DOESN'T HAVE TROPHIES Snow? aosdjasidja +YEKINDAR

2025-04-11 17:50

Clueless

2025-04-12 05:18

try?

2025-04-11 17:56

no argentina pls

2025-04-11 19:18

You could also do Fallen actually awp igl and have a nasty 4 man rifle core

2025-04-11 17:58

It I'm not mistaken dumau can AWP. Biguzera igl kscerato lurker/anchor Yuurih support Insani entry Dumau awper

2025-04-11 21:39

Can't say either if he can awp, but it has been a long time Yuurih is not performing well. His mind is in his girlfriend now and who can blame? hahaha

2025-04-12 05:21

Fer is like the Yoel Romero of cs, he can be 50 and still frag

2025-04-11 17:36

both on steroids as well

2025-04-11 17:41

fer is an actual upgrade and not even a bad pick up though

2025-04-11 19:20

kkkkkkkkk nice comment

2025-04-11 20:01

99% % loss he was benchced but it looked like he wasnt

WELCOME YEKINDAR.FURIA

2025-04-11 17:55

About year and half too late

2025-04-11 18:11

Better late than never I suppose)

2025-04-11 18:58

+gr1ks

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add jcobb, i think.

2025-04-11 17:17

Yeah weekend is almost here but too early to smoke some w33d

personally i've just started controlling my use, never felt better

2025-04-11 17:46

Nah, gr1ks is an AWPer. Unless they want Fallen to play rifle - not gonna happen

2025-04-11 18:08

It is whats happening, fallen giving up AWP before he turns himself away to coach

2025-04-11 19:00

kkkkkkk

about damn time

HERE before everyone says about time.

too late

Yeah, thats how overdue it was I don't think anyone could be that fast.

2025-04-11 18:12

#18

2025-04-11 18:13

More then expected

Good riddance

Insani pls

finally

A MOMENT LIKE THIS! SOME PEOPLE WAIT A LIFETIME FOR A MOMENT LIKE THIS!

No one

2025-04-11 17:33

Litteraly what every FURIA fan wanted to happen was -chelo

2025-04-11 18:54

FINALLY A GOOD DECISION BY FURIA

FINALLY

+kyousuke

can confirm

2025-04-16 02:08

HALLE FUCKING LUJAH

br fans are so stupid, like, im sorry but chelo is the least of furia's problem yuurih is completely useless

just say u didn't watch any of their matches it's ok

2025-04-11 17:19

you want br cs to fail, and im all for watching it burn have fun

I watched most of them and yurrih is equally worse than chelo. Yurrih is dogshit, but he plays passive. Chelo is dogshit, but at least he creates space. Chelo > Yurrih

-chelo -fallen +Insani +nqz Yuurih IGL W move?

2025-04-11 17:32

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nqz is horrible, and they need a real igl

Currently Better awping than fallen

nope

Yep Even if you go down to look at "vs top X" breakdown. Better in every single category there and even has more maps against better teams hltv.org/stats/players/19694/nqz?startDa.. hltv.org/stats/players/2023/fallen?start.. Unless you wanna bring out history here, but they need results now, not in 2016 Yuurih IGL is strange idea though

2025-04-11 18:15

nqz is currently the better brazilian awper, like it or not

2025-04-11 19:33

Based on a few vods that fallen puts on his channel, Yuurih does't communicate too much so i'm not sure that would work.

let my boy insani out of furias problems

2025-04-11 19:26

This is just the beginning and probably Yuri is gonna go too soon

2025-04-11 23:17

holy shit

its about time you guys, just get some portugese talent

No such thing available right now.

saw literally went international because of the lack of pt talent

2025-04-11 18:34

they coulvbe gotten arroce or ewjerkz, one european player could change their whole game

2025-04-11 19:12

+Lucas1

REALLY +WHO?

stewie

Now they'll bring an unknown player from the academy and continue to embarrass themselves with Fallen for the next 1,5 years and absolutely nothing is gonna change

I remember some leaks about venomzera, but I'm not sure how much it would cost to buy out him from red canids(org with money) right before mrq, only if they fail quality for mrq, then I think it would be much easier

won't matter as long as they have Fallen as IGL, a glorified cheerleader as coach and guerri overseeing the team. the org is just a mess that seemingly cares more about content creation than having an actual competitive team for the region/country

u have no idea what r u talking about, who else they could bring as igl, if u say biguzera ur dumb, pain one of the biggest Brazilian org would need to sell their best asset for main opposition, it would cost so much that if he would want to go, then it's still wouldn't be sustainable, u have no idea how to run a business and just yapping, fallen isn't that bad in addition

lol sure venomzera is gonna fix this team. just trust me bro

2025-04-11 17:47

u have problem with reading if u come to a conclusion from my sentence that venomzera fill fix everything

2025-04-11 17:48

you have a problem with reading if you can't understand basic sarcasm

2025-04-11 17:53

ur idiot, if u couldn't even read this sentence xD in what point of the sentence I didn't understand ur sarcasm

In what point? Why don't you tell me? I don't really care if you can or can't understand basic sarcasm. doesn't mean shit to me what you think

2025-04-11 18:02

furia no longer has an academy team for a year

2025-04-11 18:35

This take did not age too well. But hey who could expect molodoy to furia? xdd

2025-04-11 21:34

RIP BOZO

about damn time but knowing Furia and FalleN it will be another washed legend, like fnx or boltz or fer

+rmn

Do the call chelo

now -fallen pls

What took them that long ? (next Skullz pls)

Thanks god! FalleN should go too

2025-04-11 17:20

+RICIOLI now please

+kauez.

+insani

oh, the legendary chelo...

Bro said "legendary" Hahahhahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha must try stand-up comedy

2025-04-11 17:23

Oh, the legendary Guerri! that guy knew how to win! with him FURIA racked up trophies: Elisa Masters Espoo 2023, IEM New York 2020, ESL Pro League 12, Dreamhack Masters Spring 2020... was a machine! now with the beta "Sidde"? FURIA can't even win at table tennis! where are the trophies? where is the real FURIA? this is outrageous! come back Guerri, because with this beta as FURIA coach, it's just losses and embarrassment! FURIA has turned into a time-wasters team!

2025-04-11 17:45

He's being ironic, idiot

2025-04-12 07:01

Stfu you smelly rat

2025-04-12 12:08

Why not FalleN?

hltv.org/news/41372/short-news-week-15#f..

fucking finally

+cold

Coldzera and fallen reunion

2025-04-11 17:22

Expected tbh

Next org Burger King 🍔🍟

-fallen +nqz +biguzerra easy fix

Took them like a year, but finally happened, now get insani

and now they will take DGT from pain and he will continue to have 2 mid teams....

Should have been skullz...

Just one bad tournament Their best player after KSCERATO

Bruh, this is coming from someone who watches literally every furia game. Considering the expectations that were made, he is soo poor... Constantly making bad decisions that actually effect the team, he makes me mald so hard every time I watch him play. Imo this is like the staer situation in astralis, when buzz got benched, where they paid too much money for him just to get benched, hopefully he can prove me wrong, just like how staer is starting to step up now too.

idiot he's support

That's not the point I'm tryna make, I'm just saying that you wouldn't bench someone you bought for 600k last year

no ur wrote "expectations that were made, he is soo poor.." he's support and he still delivering on very good level, u also wrote nonsense about staer who by far the best player on astralis and buzz who can't do shit on og

2025-04-11 17:57

When astralis benched buzz, this was not the situation, everyone thought that it was staer that should have been benched. As for skullz, as I said, he is very disappointing not stat wise, but just his gameplay. Too many mistakes!

2025-04-11 18:14

first of all not everyone thought that buzz was better, and if eventually it play out better than why the fuck would the decision was bad, secondly he's support and he's delivering on his roll, does he one of the best on his roll? no, but he definetelly not a problem

2025-04-11 18:36

Damn.

They won't kick the grandpa ruining this team though crazy. Glad Complexity kicked their behinds tbh.

2025-04-11 17:27

finally brainless boy bye

+Malbs plz save him from Poland

2025-04-11 17:28

better late than never

Nothing really changes until -FalleN and maybe move Kscerato rolls...

-FalleN when?

Welcome Furia Yekindar.

Hello, anyone called chelo? no? good, give him a book

Its been 84 years

Fallen still on payroll sadge

2025-04-11 17:39

thank god. now the question is who will be the naive guy that will join furia and ruin his career?

good, -fallen when?

Too little too late I'm afraid. Inb4 "Welcome to furia coldzera!"

Hahahahahaha who car? Team will still be doodoo

wow you have the same thought as me LOL

fallen should be announced first to go.

Who are they even gonna get? dgt seems the obv choice but who will play chelo roles? Im afraid they will just get some random ass shitter

2025-04-11 17:49

Sad, he was heart of the team

2025-04-11 17:51

bb bot also cant believe you keep fallen still AT THE AGE OF 34 THIRTY FOUR

+biguzera +nqz and go go go

that would need -fallen tho, and maybe like -yuurih +insani

-fallen is mandatory, he's not a bot but he has to be replaced yuurih might find consistency under an igl like biguzera

2025-04-11 21:21

supposedly we're now expecting fallen coach after major, according to some br scene rumours

2025-04-11 21:22

he deserves a shot at coach for sure, perhaps even in liquid

2025-04-11 21:23

furia ceo was supposedly implying that he'll get to be furia cs coach

lets wait and see

thank god

2025-04-11 17:54

Coldzera to anchor

whole Brazil celebrating

chelo not even "medium quality" confirmed

2025-04-11 17:59

-vibes

Now sell the HQ for insani buyout

2025-04-11 18:00

Not the one...

2025-04-11 18:01

THEY NEED INSANI

2025-04-11 18:03

2025-04-11 18:04

furia often do good roster moves but they are so damn late it wont really matter

2025-04-11 18:10

chelo was great to watch on imperial, but it was never quite the same on furia

China is calling

2025-04-11 18:28

thanks god

Bring fucking FER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2025-04-11 18:30

FURIA should hire Perfecto from former NAVI.

ALELUIA

2025-04-11 18:33

H*TLER DEAD

they lost the negotiations for dgt... they will probably add someone worse than chelo, just watch

Scape goat fallen style is outdated too Had bigu and nqz

2025-04-11 18:37

DGT?

2025-04-11 18:55

Dgt is signed to paiN

that would be huge. On HLTV he is still benched on 9Z, but paiN with dgt is finally a brasilian team I see competitive!

it's 100% confirmed. It will be announced in the upcoming days.

2025-04-11 19:17

Yeah i hear that! Is better for DGT

2025-04-11 19:24

brazilian cs is healing...

welcome to furia stewie

2025-04-11 19:16

FURIA is trying dumau arrozdoce and fer could be a complete for the next events.

WE DID IT! WE FUCKING DID IT GUYS, CHELO'S REIGN OF TERROR IS NO MORE

2025-04-11 19:21

next fallen, please

2025-04-11 19:22

Finally

2025-04-11 19:28

<Defusing bomb while pretending to be on phone> Chelo : "Hello ? Hello ? "<Headset drops on keyboard> "Shit I stopped defusing" Fallen: " That was a good one haha" Worst team on CS, they have lesser than 40% win rate and they are joking around. Wish this team to be done with cs. This is a competive gaming, this is not valorant.

2025-04-11 19:36

Furia is the worst Valorant team too KEK

2025-04-11 20:00

talking about competitiveness in cs meanwhile many top teams don't check corners xD

2025-04-11 20:10

The 5th will be TACO.

2025-04-11 20:20

+ Lux when?

2025-04-11 20:25

Welcome fer

2025-04-11 20:47

i hate chelo

Expected

2025-04-11 21:36

no fkn way, they realised just now?

2025-04-11 21:41

Thank God

2025-04-11 22:00

Lol

2025-04-12 00:47

It's necessary... Maybe skulzz too...

2025-04-12 00:46

F furia

ajajajajaj he crying like a baby with a full diaper...

2025-04-12 02:26

Maybe should've done it before all the good players qualified

2025-04-12 03:27

He was shit from the start. I remember when he was screaming like a dog in the major but then quite like a p*ssy when he had to go to de_favela after getting stomped

2025-04-12 19:42