Brazilian organization FURIA announced that Vinicius ‘VINI’ Figueiredo will not be part of their CS: GO roster until the 2022 season. According to FURIA coach ‘guerri’ they will add a dedicated AWPer for 2022 and not rely on IGL Andrei ‘arT’ Piovezan for AWPing tasks.
VINI has also confirmed this about a twitlongerthat he found out about the decision and was sad about it, but that CS: GO Professional will continue to play and is currently evaluating his options.
It was rumored that VINI would join Team Liquid once they rebuilt their roster following the departures of ‘FallN’ and ‘Stewie2k’. It is currently uncertain who will stay on the Liquid list, with the exception of ‘EliGE’ who plans to stay with the organization, especially after news of nitr0’s possible return. Vitality player Shox was also in talks with Liquid.
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VINI has been part of FURIA for more than 4 years and has represented them at 3 majors – IEM Katowice 2019, StarLadder Berlin 2019 and PGL Stockholm 2021. He had the greatest success during the online era, in the FURIA EPL S12 NA, DreamHack Masters won Spring and IEM New York 2020, that was of course with Henrique ‘HEN1’ Teles on the list.
With the removal of VINI, FURIA will have the following list:
- Andrei “arT” Piovezan
- Kaike “KSCERATO” Cerato
- Yuri “yuurih” Santos
- André “drop” Abreu
- Nicholas “guerri” Nogueira (trainer)
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