Esports company AFK Professionals has appointed former skilled Counter-Strike participant Daniel ‘Frod’ Montaner as its Esports Expertise Coordinator.
In his new position, Montaner, who was beforehand signed to the company as a shopper, will utilise his expertise and connections to higher serve AFK Professionals’ rising roster of expertise, the corporate stated.
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Montaner joins the company after fulfilling quite a lot of roles within the esports trade during the last 20 years.
Throughout his energetic aggressive years, he gained a number of main worldwide competitions in Counter-Strike and was thought-about to be an all-time nice in North American Counter-Strike. He transitioned briefly to Overwatch, then VALORANT, earlier than retiring.
After retiring as knowledgeable participant, Montaner moved into esports teaching and administration working with organisations resembling FaZe Clan, T1, Florida Worldwide College, Miami Dade Neighborhood School, and extra.
Montaner commented on his new Esports Expertise Coordinator position: “I’m excited to begin the following a part of my profession in esports, particularly with the company I’ve been with for the previous couple of years.
“All through my time in esports, I’ve all the time seemed out for gamers and tried to finest symbolize the pursuits of gamers, so it was extraordinarily vital to me that AFK valued this in the identical manner. To have the ability to proceed to help gamers on this position with AFK is a blessing!”
AFK Professionals is a part of the AFK Group. In 2021, the UK-based company rebranded to AFK Group in an try to differentiate its enterprise models — AFK Creators, AFK Professionals, and AFK Digital.
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Skilled gamers signed underneath AFK Professionals embody OpTic’s Pujan ‘FNS’ Mehta, Misfits’ Mitchell ‘Mittaen’ Driessen and Staff Vitality’s Santeri ‘BONECOLD’ Sassi, amongst others.
Jamie Wooton, Lead Esport Agent at AFK Professionals, added: “Once we launched Frod to our roster of shoppers in North America, most of the skilled gamers shared fond recollections of watching Frod in Counter-Strike tournaments after they had been rising up, which was good.
“It’s implausible to have somebody with such an extended tenure in esports be a part of our ranks and convey with him such a formidable quantity of connections and expertise.”
Esports Insider says: AFK Professionals has managed to rent a candidate with years {of professional} esports expertise to information and help its expertise. Daniel ‘Frod’ Montaner has a powerful background not solely as knowledgeable esports participant but in addition as a coach and supervisor. His expertise will probably be useful to the company because it seems to be develop and develop its shopper roster.
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