FURIA bench skullz, add YEKINDAR as stand-in *

22-4-2025 19:23

FURIA have doubled-down on their pivot to an international roster.

YEKINDAR has found a new team six months after being benched by Liquid

Update 19:10 : This article was updated upon the announcement of Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis' signing.

FURIA have announced that Felipe "⁠skullz⁠" Medeiros is moving to the bench, ending the 23-year-old's nine-month stint on the starting roster, in favour of YEKINDAR, who has joined as a stand-in from Liquid until BLAST.tv Austin Major.

Media: FURIA set to bench skullz

"We are grateful for all the effort and work dedicated to the team, and we only wish the best for the rest of his career," FURIA said of skullz in a statement.

This is the second recent change by FURIA, as mere weeks ago they benched Marcelo "⁠chelo⁠" Cespedes and brought in Kazakhstani AWPer Danil "⁠molodoy⁠" Golubenko in a shock move.

FURIA sign molodoy

YEKINDAR arrives in FURIA after a largely fruitless spell with Liquid, where he arrived in June 2022 as a stand-in. The Latvian's experience garnered with Virtus.pro helped Liquid update their playbook and elevate the team out of a poor patch of form, upon which they finished runner's-up at BLAST World Final 2022 and later secured playoffs at BLAST.tv Paris Major.

The 25-year-old transitioned to a full-time IGL upon the departure of Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella mid-way through 2023 as Liquid transitioned to an international lineup, but the team struggled and the Latvian's individual form took a nosedive.

YEKINDAR would go on to relinquish calling duties to Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller upon Liquid's revamp in late 2023, but his individual form never recovered and he found himself warming the bench after a lacklustre 2024.

Liquid bench YEKINDAR

YEKINDAR will serve as the replacement for skullz, who initially joined FURIA in July of 2024, coming in for previous FURIA Academy player Kayke "⁠kye⁠" Bertolucci, who himself was a short-lived stand-in for Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan.

The move was part of a significant overhaul within FURIA, which also saw Nicholas "⁠guerri⁠" Nogueira move into a management role within the organization and Sid "⁠sidde⁠" Macedo brought in as coach.

FURIA failed to notably improve their results after said overhaul, bar a brief bright spot when they achieved a top-four finish at IEM Rio 2024. Beyond that, playoff finishes were hard to come by, and skullz only mustered a 0.99 rating in the midst of his team's struggles.

FURIA are now:

Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo
Yuri "⁠yuurih⁠" Santos
Kaike "⁠KSCERATO⁠" Cerato
Danil "⁠molodoy⁠" Golubenko
Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis

Sid "⁠sidde⁠" Macedo (coach)

Marcelo "⁠chelo⁠" Cespedes (benched)
Felipe "⁠skullz⁠" Medeiros (benched)

most diabolically cursed FURIA line-up ever if they get yekindar

2025-04-22 18:25

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They might be going CIS, no cap

2025-04-22 18:30

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FalleN didn't get to play with s1mple and flamie so he'll settle for this

2025-04-22 18:34

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Bold to assume s1mple still doesn't join at some point.

2025-04-22 19:56

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yeah i saw something mentioning him replacing Fallen

2025-04-22 20:09

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I was (mostly) joking, but I do see a world where FalleN turns FURIA into the Brazilian FaZe in a sense. Keep himself on the roster and just surround himself with international talent so Brazil still has 1 team winning events.

2025-04-22 21:32

Acording to circulating rumors, Fallen is contemplating retiring from professional gameplay. If he decides to retire, it's speculated that he would transition into a new role within FURIA as the team's coach and content creator. In this scenario, there's talk that S1mple, might join FURIA as a replacement for Fallen. lineup would be: molodoy taking the position of AWPer Yekindar serving as the Entry Fragger, initiating plays and trades S1mple assuming the role of Rifler, complementing Yekindar's aggressive gameplay Kscerato operating as the team's Lurker Yurih filling the role of Support player, handling grenades and being the third Rifler Meanwhile, Fallen would step into the position of Coach, overseeing strategy and mentoring the players while also creating content to further elevate FURIA's brand.

2025-04-22 21:40

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Great strategy without an IGL. It will work 100%

2025-04-22 22:43

They won ' t surive in EU , they should consider a different goat , BNTET , so they ' ll be 2 br 2 eu 1 asia and farm BR spots

2025-04-23 00:36

too old for t1

2025-04-23 07:28

That's the logical continuation at this point

2025-04-23 01:19

This lineup will actually work, you'll see

2025-04-22 19:24

4 replies

flair checks out

2025-04-22 20:01

Saudi flag? Lol

2025-04-23 05:08

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yeah boludo Saudi Arabia flag. What about it? You gonna pretend like you're a social justice warrior online as well?

2025-04-23 11:29

Cringe.

2025-04-26 02:19

and here we go

2025-04-22 19:26

yekindar standin

2025-04-22 19:29

just do -fallen +cadian now and lfg

2025-04-22 19:35

Yekindar good player!

2025-04-25 11:59

oho

Crazy good for Yekindar :) So bad for the brazilian Scene :(

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what scene

2025-04-22 18:27

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portuguese flag talking about br cs scene lmao

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flair

2025-04-22 19:28

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flair+name read again Regards

name

2025-04-22 19:30

goat user

2025-04-22 20:49

all this user does is "name" or "flair" or "avg *insert flag/flair* person" probably a serial baiter when playing counter strike too

2025-04-22 20:23

bro theres no way at all youre STILL crying about 3 words i wrote like ages ago lmaoooo whoru are you like 15?

2025-04-22 21:23

also in relation to my all time message count i rarely ever even say those things pretty much only for ppl like you where it just fits

2025-04-22 21:26

SAW is better than all Brazilian teams combined

2025-04-22 20:03

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yeah we saw it today

2025-04-22 20:21

they just lost today to mibr

fake news

2025-04-22 20:24

-8

2025-04-22 21:17

yeah yeah, what about mibr 2x1 saw?

im russian so will never be offend by 'scene' comment

2025-04-22 22:56

Brazilian Guiana talking about cs scene

2025-04-23 00:15

furias worst decision is always their next

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2025-04-22 18:26

skullz high diffs kekindar

2025-04-22 18:29

yekindar so insane that he was benched by lulquid

2025-04-22 18:59

Same sh*t can be said about skullz, it's an equal exchange

2025-04-22 19:23

skullz is cool though yeki needs at least 3 years of mogging to come close to him

2025-04-22 23:02

Mighty skullz with 0.97 rating, 67 adr and 0.89 impact past 12 months, very cool

2025-04-22 23:25

wow numbers

2025-04-22 23:36

Yes, numbers, skullz being Brazilian doesn't make him a better player

2025-04-22 23:50

at least we dont have to support them anymore after they kick Fallen and bring another bot from europe

At least a bot is better

2025-04-22 18:37

At least bot can be controlled by a better player.

2025-04-22 18:42

if they add yekindar its over for furia

2025-04-22 18:54

cooking nothing 🔥😍

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he was not the problem

They replaced their most reliable anchor with yekindar. Man what are these guys cooking? Fallen should be next I'm assuming.

2025-04-22 18:33

It would be hillarious if Fallen renew his contract for multiple years.

2025-04-22 19:43

at least they saved him, couldnt care less about the rest tbh

2025-04-22 20:43

big L

2 cis players for fallen to retire this year and get international IGL? FURIA gla1ve is cursed and may happen

gla1ve, I haven't heard that name in YEARS

2025-04-22 18:51

good stuff bench these losers

fallen next

-Fallen +Snappi

2025-04-22 19:46

disband. Hope yekindar goes good or furia is cooked

-fallen incoming

Furia is done

fallen does it again

i cannot wait for YEKINDAR in FURIA, 2 laughingstocks combined

Thought you only hated broky

Yucki is the broky without an awp

2025-04-22 18:45

He’s regular Latvian guy who hates on his natives, nothing new.

2025-04-22 20:28

That guy ain’t one of us. Norwegian fakeflagger

2025-04-26 16:49

just the dumbest org out there, first they remove they only aggressive rifle for fucking cis awper, when fallen wasn't that bad with awp and was only relevant because he played with awp and now they replace their anchor with aggressive rifler, but now they don't have a good ancor LMAO kccerate declined so many invites to good international line up to just ended up with fucking yekindar and molodoy lmfao all they needed to do was wait mrq to end and but out venomozera after red canedits failed to qualify

Skulzz 0.97 last 3 months is very good anchor fuck yeah

considering chelo yuurih and fallen yea that's pretty solid

2025-04-22 19:13

0.99 as anchor is pretty good considering how shit this team has been.

2025-04-22 19:19

Ive watched so much of furia and he hasnt impressed me yet, i only remeber that whiff to iM in anubis

2025-04-22 19:39

You arent watching enough then, how tf you not impressed with a player putting decent stats role wise in a failing team. faceit POV maybe youll notice who the best player really is

2025-04-23 02:33

Astralis would like to have a word with you about the dumbest org comment.

idk for me their hate is undeserved and their decision make more sense to me

2025-04-22 21:33

Furia is such a joke xD

FURIA is the most losing and failed team of all time LMAO

The 40 year old strikes again

happy for skullz, he deserves better

2025-04-22 18:28

he might as well go back to pain. they're better anyways.

Honestly? I'd love to see that.

2025-04-22 18:31

Skullz in this pain team would be cinema

2025-04-22 18:46

im pretty sure pain got dgt, but skullz could easily join mibr or move back to NA if he wants to

2025-04-23 00:17

True, that's the right way to look at it. I also think Furia is forced to make these move which also serve as a statement to the ridiculous SA buyout prices for not quite proven players. All these teams expect Furia to pay big dollars for their players, but Furia is saying fuck no. At least in my imagination. Something needs to change down there, its ridiculous

2025-04-22 19:03

ill never forget when fluxo paid sharks 325k eur for fucking lucaozy lol

they're making flambé

-management +me -yekindar +tomaszin

listen to father's tactics I'm flashing from spawn, then you do the following: chelo and skullz pack your stuff and get out of my team

Updoot this comment more

2025-04-22 18:47

Simple for Fallen next?

FURIA is having fun, it seems.

So that kekindar move did actually go through... FURIA is dumb

lmao +yekindar -skullz ??? lmaooo

idiots

let sidde cook XDXDXDXDXDXD

the way things are going, he is the next one to leave

2025-04-23 06:49

KEKBUMTARD EMPLOYED IN THE YEAR 2025??? LMAO

it smells failure

2025-04-22 18:32

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0.9 rating entry fragger from latvia what can go wrong

2025-04-22 18:35

0.97 rating anchor isn't the much of an improvement

2025-04-22 18:38

Two completely different roles and anything over a 0.8 is amazing for an anchor, outing yourself as a idiot that doesnt understand the game

2025-04-23 02:25

b1t has 1.13 rating as an anchor and he isn't even playing that well

2025-04-23 02:31

Jesus christ then idk what to tell you man, its been said once here somewhere, a shame you gotta be told twice,. The team is under performing but fuck it pick the event he went negative and use that as proof he not as good anymore. While we on that mindset kick NiKo after one bad performance too

2025-04-23 11:21

I'm not picking one event, skullz hasn't really done well all year. He didn't do very well playing for Liquid either and that's why he was benched after only 7 months there. Sure the team is underperforming, but he is part of the team and he definitely is one of the underperformers

2025-04-23 19:49

> anything over a 0.8 is amazing for an anchor This is complete nonsense. Let's take a look at a handful of anchors and their ratings in 2025, shall we? magixx - 1.04 Jimpphat - 1.04 jottAAA - 1.05 b1t - 1.12 Staehr - 1.05 Magisk - 0.95 If you are under 1.0 you aren't doing "amazing", you are probably very close to being benched.

2025-04-23 19:46

If Perfecto is considered the best with a 1.04 then anything around 1 is very good, specifically for anchor not considering their T side roles like b1t whos a lurker and of course would have higher stats. Skullz overall is a 1.09 so he has more impact on T sides so is he the best?!? Hes just very good at anchoring and is not at all the problem with Furia on their T side, he does his job perfectly

2025-04-24 14:59

skullz is a half lurker on T side as well. His numbers aren't terrible but they aren't great either He is 1.09 overall, but only 0.99 since joining Furia. Just goes to show how much he's been underperforming

2025-04-24 17:02

Youre forgetting my point being that as an anchor hes STILL VERY FUCKING GOOD 👍 his T side sucks isnt worth discussing since the two main players of Furia are also shit on T side

2025-04-24 18:10

just save KSCERATO from this jail

whats fallen doing here

2025-04-22 18:36

F for Furia F for Brazil

Furia trying to one up astralis in trash management

ez 4 stewie

dont destroy insani pls

2025-04-22 18:39

Brazilian scene must be poor to need YEKINDER

just kick yuuriih not skullz

2025-04-22 18:41

what the fuck

Holy shit What is this lineup xdd

2025-04-22 18:44

WHY NOT YUURIHHHHH Fy furia

one of the ugliest rosters in CS history, probably the most in terms of BR scene +Fallen +chelo kickstarted this nightmare

at least they kicked chelo

Furia doing those MIBR moves

One of the most cursed roster moves ever

Even if skullz is overrated (which he is), this is still a weird move, big changes seem to be coming.

2025-04-22 18:50

Bye bye FURIA see you in CCT and Elisa Masters

welcome to tier 4 furia

2025-04-22 18:52

Kscerato: I don't want to join an international roster because I like the family environment of being in a Brazilian team. Also Kscerato: Brings the international roster to him instead. ??? Why not accept playing with Twistzz (before he became cursed IGL), NAF (back when he was good) and Yekindar (who it looks like you're going to play with now anyway) when the offer to join Liquid when a salary increase was on the table? Only to end up with Molodoy, Fallen rifle IGL and mega washed Yekindar and who knows after the major. But at least you get to keep your boy Yuurih I guess. Yuurih must be the bag.

2025-04-22 18:58

Yekindar has been confirmed by Furia 💀

2025-04-22 19:11

No way! That would be downgrade. Dude was most overhyped prospect of they year back when he joined liquid. And it showed massively. I don't hate benching skullz, but you have to have solid player to step in, not freaking yekindar ffs.

2025-04-22 19:14

doesn't seem like skullz was the problem, sad for skullz also, kekindar kekw

Fallen on rifle will be the new cadian

2025-04-22 19:18

Would it be better if they add felps and Hen1 and still speak portuguese?

what is that picture

absolute cinema

Even brazil had enough of botz edit: sentence structure

welcome yekindar to tier 6

🤣 FURIA management iq 2000 move. Why these orgs still trust some washed guys and don’t believe new blood?

2025-04-22 19:27

????????????????hm

this is furia's middle finger to all brazilian org buyouts - if the biggest org in br decides to outsource their talent, and buyouts stay this high, then more br orgs will do the same

2025-04-22 19:25

furia biggest eco friendly org ever. they recycling like crazy

unexpected

Kscerato, Dgt, Bigu, Dav1d and Nqz with Rikz (coach) please

only move Kscerato to pain to make this

2025-04-22 21:20

He still hasn't realized that if he doesn't leave that mediocre team he won't win anything relevant in his career.

2025-04-22 21:28

management can uninstall

one more change and we see the eu flag on furia, would have never imagined this day to come

The question is the cultural impact. If u remember mibr in 2005 had in their roster a norwigian igl called bsl, and it was really good to develop our cs at that time, hope it works same way with kekwyendar.

Is yekindar better than skullz?

YES

In what fucking world

2025-04-22 19:41

Never.

2025-04-23 20:55

2021 would like to have a word with you

2025-04-23 21:44

its so funny how furia just doesnt even think about moving kscerato and yuurih, like these two are in the team for more than 7 years, maybe its time to work around others brazilian riflers

haha joke org

2025-04-22 19:31

GOOD LUCK KING

russian speaking duo + brazil trio never expect that ngl

2025-04-22 19:37

furia looking like rmr fantasy team rn

2025-04-22 19:38

skullz literally 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

furia went to operation room to solve the problem and got the wrong foot cut

downgrade

2025-04-22 19:42

congratulations yekindar for stealing paychecks from Furia lmao

2025-04-22 19:44

I never thought i would be able to hatewatch a team, but i gotta see this trainwreck

2025-04-22 19:45

I just hope they become amazing to witness the chaos of analysts and HLTV collectively malding NGL XD

most wtf move ever

ass to ass

2025-04-22 19:50

good scene

what a disaster

2025-04-22 19:51

Congrats Furia on winning the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 taking place in Austin, Texas, United States of America from June 3rd to June 22nd 2025. Very well done 👍😸

2025-04-22 19:54

Good player

2025-04-22 19:58

What do Brazilians think of this move? Not just about the fact that they bring in yekindar in particular, but about moving away from the Brazilian identity (again)?

FURIA's owner has told in an interview with gaules that brazilian CS wouldn't be victorious again unless they get an international lineup. It's just him doing what he has told.

so.. it’s not brazilian cs? does he mean brazilian org?

2025-04-22 21:31

Brazilians are the main reason of this, if other orgs didn't put all these insane buyouts on t2-3 unproven players - furia may've tried with some Brazilian players again

2025-04-22 20:29

May have? Never in a million years with the wealth of talent br cs has, would they go international without these stupid buyouts.

I don't mind fúria not being a fully Brazilian team, what I'm mad about is that fúria is consistently pulling the most braindead moves. Like, what even is this team?? Fallen on a rifle Yuuri Kscerato Awper from Kazakhstan Kekindar If anyone had to go, it should be yuuri. Skullz is their most consistent player that plays at least decent CS every game and they kick him??? What??? With so many options available, with so many talented BR players available on t2 (saadzin, doc, pretty much the entirety of legacy, nicks, tomate, piriajr....), with so many talented players on international T2 teams overall, and this is what they do?? At this point I honest to God hope that this team loses every game they play until they get a grip on reality. We wanted changes, but not random change just for the sake of change. We want well-structured, meaningful changes! It's like they're letting a chimpanzee or some other primate manage the team.

2025-04-23 00:24

we going fucking nowhere with this one 🔥🔥

2025-04-22 20:46

What is happening lmao

2025-04-22 20:50

yekindar to furia is another clown car collision between Team Liquid and the BR scene. it won't work. it never works. stop trying to merge NA and SA already, they are not compatible.

2025-04-22 20:52

this must be some kind of a joke +yekindar? really? terrible move

2025-04-22 20:55

How do I delete the comment?

2025-04-22 20:58

lol dumb haters yekindar goat

2025-04-22 21:30

It's a very smart Brazilian move. CIS is most skilled region in world. stay with 2 best brazilians players and Fallen to couch +3 CIS they can ez play SA MRQ and always get stickers genius

God damn, soon they gonna speak russian

2025-04-22 21:44

what a mix LOL

2025-04-22 22:05

If you asked me a few months ago, that yekindar would be in a Furia jersey, I'd be laughing.

2025-04-22 22:08

Fixed incoming

2025-04-22 22:10

kekindar is not a joke to you he will RiSe

Why skullz lol

2025-04-22 22:18

the weirdo move i've me seen :skull:

2025-04-22 22:20

L move

2025-04-22 22:45

they cooked -fans -results

2025-04-22 22:46

You mean +fans. Who doesnt like the goat of online era

2025-04-23 19:02

good move from gaules

2025-04-22 22:49

lets go!

2025-04-22 23:05

lowkey cooked

2025-04-22 23:07

crazy

2025-04-22 23:20

yekindar stickers or nah?

S1mple is joining 😮

2025-04-22 23:37

WHAT ARE YOU DOING FURIA OMFG This has to be one of the ugliest rosters of all time. Fallen on a rifle Yuuri Kscerato Awper from Kazakhstan Kekindar Like wtf are they smoking???? Are they letting a chimpanzee manage the team???? I honest to God hope that furia loses every game they play this year. Like, at this point you don't deserve to win any games anymore. Drop dead, fúria.

2025-04-23 00:14

Better than going nowhere with the same players?

2025-04-23 01:17

I’m actually really intrigued. I basked yekindar a lot on cs2 but this could actually work. Worst case be very exciting stylistically

2025-04-23 01:02

honestly i like it i just hate the old furia so any change is a gift

2025-04-23 01:09

Honestly any change away from BR is good. furia were for a while on the cusp of T1 but stagnated. Who knows maybe GOAT move?!

2025-04-23 01:16

next furia game will actually be a banger, wtf are these roster changes

2025-04-23 01:21

Pure definition of insanity

2025-04-23 01:24

letsgo yeki

2025-04-23 01:32

Surely management are making these moves because linguistically Portuguese can sometimes sound like Russian So random otherwise

2025-04-23 01:37

I just hope Furia wont keep skullz in jail.

2025-04-23 02:03

they will communicate on russian?

2025-04-23 02:04

Seems like they are gambling lol

What a FAK is going on?

2025-04-23 03:52

They are making a team for CCT tournaments maybe

2025-04-23 11:47

THE WORST DECISION

2025-04-23 08:41

Wdym? Are you hating on the online era goat entry?

2025-04-23 19:00

No, I don't hate him. I am sure Yekindar was surely one of the best. But now he played too bad. Not sure he is better than skullz. Not trying to argue

2025-04-24 05:14