Official: FalleN joins FURIA

3-7-2023 18:00

The Godfather of Brazilian Counter-Strike will lead FURIA into the next season.

FURIA have announced the signing of veteran in-game leader Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo ahead of the fall season. The organization had been linked with the 32-year-old for more than a month and has now secured the AWPer's signature before their IEM Cologne 2023 campaign.

FalleN officially parted ways with Imperial on Sunday after a 17-month-stint with the organization. The Brazilian initially joined the team in February 2022 as part of the "Last Dance" project alongside Lincoln "⁠fnx⁠" Lau and Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga, leading them to qualify for both the PGL Antwerp and IEM Rio Majors in 2022.

FalleN departs Imperial

FalleN joins FURIA ahead of the fall season (Photo courtesy of FURIA)

The two-time Major winner arrives in his new squad after averaging a 1.09 rating during his stint with Imperial and will take over the AWPing duties from FURIA's previous sniper, Rafael "⁠saffee⁠" Costa. Both the 28-year-old and academy product André "⁠drop⁠" Abreu left FURIA in late July ahead of a transfer to MIBR.

"FalleN is recognized as one of the greatest CS players of all time and has a successful career spanning over a decade," read the statement released by FURIA. "His journey is marked by numerous achievements and important titles, including two Major victories in 2016, the game's premier global competition, and his well-known role in leadership and the development of high-performance players and teams."

Official: MIBR sign saffee, drop

"FalleN's arrival represents a moment of unity for Brazilian esports." added FURIA's Co-Founder and Co-CEO, André Akkari. "This union brings together the best that Brazil has produced from two different generations. Two sides that were once opposed, separated by a rivalry that has been created for years, are now together in a movement that unites generations and the Brazilian CS community."

Marcelo "⁠chelo⁠" Cespedes is also expected to join FURIA and take over the last available spot on the roster following his departure from Imperial earlier on Monday. The Brazilian was first reported to be in the conversation for a move alongside FalleN by GamerArena on Sunday.

Imperial says goodbye to chelo

FURIA are scheduled to debut with their new roster at IEM Cologne 2023, where they'll tackle the Play-In stage between July 26-28. The Brazilian squad will battle it out against the likes of Liquid, Ninjas in Pyjamas, and fnatic for one of the eight spots in the competition's group stage.

FURIA's active roster is now:

Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan
Yuri "⁠yuurih⁠" Santos
Kaike "⁠KSCERATO⁠" Cerato
Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo

Nicholas "⁠guerri⁠" Nogueira (coach)

TOP 30 TRANSFERS

No team

COACH

No team

BENCH

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All transfers

2023-07-03 18:00

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2023-07-07 00:21

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What is teams obsession with adding Fallen? First Liquid, obviously didnt work and now Furia. He is and IGL and AWP, i know, But, nowhere near t1 cs

2023-07-03 18:02

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you will never understand

2023-07-03 18:05

He won't be IGL while on FURIA.

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Yes he will

2023-07-03 18:07

Yeah he is.

2023-07-03 18:08

Of course he will

2023-07-03 18:09

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Nope, he will focus on AWPing only, reports have said since the beginning.

2023-07-03 18:13

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I didn’t seen any trustable source say this. Don’t be dumb, even FURIA mentioned his IGL skills on their announcements.

2023-07-03 18:23

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Maybe they valued the igl skill they took away from their competition

2023-07-03 18:27

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They should buy zywoo to take away AWP skill from their competition by that logic

2023-07-07 12:43

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Furia isnt competing with vitality tbh but yea

2023-07-07 14:47

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WTF Furia plays almost only LANs where they compete european teams and almost 0 brazillian teams man

2023-07-07 14:50

I wouldnt call it competing if u lose all the time.

2023-07-07 14:55

HLTV reports have always suggested arT will take a step back from IGL duties (which would be huge for FURIA) and Fallen will pick that up. I don’t speak portugese, so maybe there is some closer source idk about, but afaik Fallen def IGL, and they would be stupid to do anything else

2023-07-03 20:29

even before any rumors art was online talking about how his smooth brain hurts when he has to play and IGL. fallen and fer are famous for never listening to coaches, I don't see him leaving his position as IGL on Imperial to listen to art elsewhere.

2023-07-03 21:12

Skill wise that would make sense, imagine having art just focus on the game as a player, I have not been keeping up with it, but they could even have some crazy brainstorming for strategy. What I know is Fallen will soon retire, and probably become a coach if he is smart about it.

2023-07-04 11:34

then its even more retarded move

2023-07-03 18:16

makes no sense, since his igling and support are still tier 1 his awping = trash

2023-07-03 18:17

That's why he is focusing on AWPing, so he can actually help this way.

2023-07-03 18:22

you're taking information out of your ass lmao

2023-07-03 18:25

It’s dumb since he is bad now and you got a player thinking “to be good again IF he focus on Awp”

2023-07-03 19:00

imagine calling an awper that's better than yourself, even universes away trash... bruh, stfu.

2023-07-03 20:38

What why not ? Let fallen IGL and let arT do his mad plays.

Of course FalleN will be the igl, stop talking bullshit lol

2023-07-03 18:36

Can brasilian users in few words tell me what fallen was talking about in the video? Thanks

2023-07-03 18:52

Fallen is talking about his career so far and what he hopes to achieve in the future with Furia

2023-07-03 20:13

feelings / passion about origins, past and now, he talking about friends and the heat how makes he plays til today... in short terms it is

2023-07-03 21:37

Fake news. He is the IGL.

2023-07-03 19:29

You will never understand.

"Last dance"

one last bag he has got to get

2023-07-03 18:19

I swear one more dance!

2023-07-03 20:46

"Last dance" indeed hahaha actually I was rooting for his retirement.

2023-07-03 21:57

Ok people, let's hear the t1 proplayer

2023-07-03 18:06

CHORA AQUI É BR ! FALLEN GOAT cryes, because here is brazi! Fallen goat

I’d say that his stint on TL never worked because of ego clashes with Stewie and Elige.

+1 I think it could have been a sick move if Stewie either wasn’t such a bitch or if he was removed entirely back then

2023-07-03 18:15

Totally agree, tilt2k stabbed the teacher in the back

2023-07-04 05:24

2023-07-04 05:25

shut up, you are silver

2023-07-03 18:12

Furia is completely built around art's igling. I don't believe they are open to change everything for Fallen. Fallen is an above average dedicated awper, which is what they are lacking since Hen1 departure, and this can work, if you ask me.

2023-07-03 18:21

Believe me, its fallen who going to be the igl or else he wouldn’t leave imperial

2023-07-03 18:35

You say this based on what? art is, mechanically, the weaker player of the roster, he is not leaving for a reason. Furia is keeping the core, why do this if you plan to change the team's approach to the game?

2023-07-03 20:17

No fucking dude, let art play the entry and crazy moves and the professor lead as igl, gg.

2023-07-04 05:26

"art's igl" thats why they brought Fallen, because art igl is trash and never got a trophy.

2023-07-07 14:52

87.2% money, br cs will hire fallen's corpse and fan boys would still buy his shirts.... 12.8% experience

Oh Yes! I totally forgot about this factor. The fanbase he brings to Furia

2023-07-03 19:04

cos he is the figurehead of the br scene and respected by everyone

2023-07-03 18:39

Absolutly Fallen IGLing Furia. The professor dude the goat, the mastermind IGL ever. Art can sit back and learn it.... Give 6 months for Furia to start to win tournament's around Europe and then those noobs who are asking what people see on old Fallen will have to swallow their words.

2023-07-03 19:38

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2023-07-06 08:10

They will never understand

2023-07-03 22:17

the problem was never fallen, newbie

2023-07-04 05:22

LOL An AWPer dropping 1 rating is not a problem for teams contending for t1 trophies lmao No point arguing with you because you are delusional Brazilian Fallen fanboi

2023-07-04 07:06

that's expected of you, no-scene who have no one to support but stars from another country, lol. Anyway, calculate his rating in the last championship and here I don't need to tell you anything else, the statistics themselves speak for me, you're just another ignorant without scene, so go back to sleep. 💤

2023-07-04 19:48

if you actually played cs and not just matchmaking, then you would understand his value

2023-07-04 17:28

You will never understand.. PRESENTE

2023-07-05 16:53

you watch csgo?

2023-07-06 03:19

PRESENTE

2023-07-03 18:01

Unexpected

Olala

PRESENTEEEEEEEE PROFESSOR

BR CS SAVED , I'M A FURIA FAN NOW

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Kekw

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Fake flagger or ? 🤔

2023-07-03 18:43

Im a Brazilian but i am not delusional

2023-07-03 18:49

> Brazil flag > Not being a Fallen fan Two faced ' Felix6775 ' tolado ...

2023-07-03 18:50

2023-07-03 22:31

Cis cs>>>>>eu cs>>>>>>>>>>>>asia cs>>>na, sa cs

2023-07-04 08:55

A moroccan saying to a brazilian : you'll never understand ... We've seen it all on HLTV

2023-07-06 22:27

FURIA FALLEN LETS GOOO

2023-07-03 19:37

rip furia

i dont think they will be worse than they were this year

+1 player wise huge improvement

- drop - saffee + fallen + chelo u think its rip Furia? My man we are about to see kscerato and yuurih at their prime form, i dont think thats a rip

2023-07-03 18:38

The real last dance

Yup. And its gonna crash and burn

2023-07-04 16:13

Let´s go! Presente!

waiting for chelo

2023-07-03 18:03

BIG

EU TIVE AQUI

the biggest crossover of CS

Young superstar...

Furia top 1 HLTV confirmed

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

now +coldzera, ez

what a surprise :O i wonder who they will add next

chelo

was a joke, i know alr that fallen and chelo would get added

2023-07-03 18:34

Maybe cold or taco

I think it would be dumb not to add flamie now, but thats just my opinion.

top 25 team at best

vivi pra ver

Old bot

lets gooooooo

Nice! Furia can now officially compete in tier3 events

HYPE

Cool. Please make him IGL over arT

I honestly dont agree with that, I know FalleN is the best IGL we have in Brazil but when you see other top teams, their alp is usually not igling with exception of CadiaN.

bring the trophies

hahahaha

PRESENTEEEE

LETS GOOOOOOO

goat

My friend Reyfou is so happy dude

who would have thought...

2023-07-03 18:04

everyone?

let me expand on that: who would have thought someday furia would be signing fallen

2023-07-03 18:30

I mean I personally dont find that surprising as fallen gets past around top Brazilian teams like a used hooker

2023-07-03 19:03

stop blowing my head Fallen, am not bi Furia TOP 1 ??????

Presente professor.

OPaa

LET US COOK

LET US COOK LET US COOK NOW I SAY LET US COOK

2023-07-05 19:01

Excited to see another year of Ksceratos prime being wasted.

FalleN will finally polish the diamond KSC is

2023-07-03 18:32

Presente!

LET'S GOOOO

and the 5th?

VAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KRLLLLLLLLLLL

furia top1 hltv today

2023-07-07 06:42

I am here!!!

profesoooorrrrrr

Top 5 stupidest moves ever

You missed Aleksib on Navi?

At least he can shoot

2023-07-03 18:26

sure? hltv.org/stats/players/9816/aleksib edit: I thought fallen would have similar stats, but I was surprised vs top5, top10, top15 hltv.org/stats/players/2023/fallen

Don't know but looking his stats I can't say this

2023-07-03 18:51

C'MOOONNNN Ooohhh FalleN stop blowing my mind!!!

VAMOOOOOOOOO

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Presente

chelo when?

:O UNEXPECTED :O

are we going back to tier 2?

remove the nickname "FalleN", you don't deserv

2023-07-06 03:27

+Nekiz and we have a major winner team here.

Its gonna be chelo bro

2023-07-03 18:10

AGORA O MAJOR VEM

Great new young talent pickup I hope he’ll have a long and prosperous career

Why are these latin american people just shuffling around the same dudes constantly. Wasn't Fallen in uh, some MIBR, or uh, something similar? And before that wherever? Maybe Furia? I fail to see why this is headlines?

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nice copypasta hahaha

I have no idea what a copypasta is, but I don't like the sound of the word. Maybe you're trying to insult me? Either way, I think these random shuffles are rather comical. Nothing will spawn out of Fallen joining some random brazilian team, just underperforming teams that "are good on paper" but fail hard at the tournaments they attend.

who gives a shit to your thoughts? go back to your zero cs scenario finnish ice cold floorball gayme

copy paste lmao

2023-07-03 20:47

0/8

I dare you, tell me about a SA team from the past three years that has won anything? I think the last time when Luminosity and SK played a long time ago the SA teams won something.

2023-07-03 18:18

NT all CBCS and CCT South America winning teams were BR

Right, I have never heard of those tournaments. They are like Finnish local masters where top FInnish teams clash together and some crappy team wins. They don't last for a second in the real world. Call me when Fallen wins a major and I'm reversing my opinion on SA/NA teams.

Dude u just got baited lol

I did? :D Funniest thing, I don't get the shit. This is like HLTV standard like I argue that A and some cunt argues that I'm wrong, so I retort with facts and my major wits and the other dude replys with "kekw you got based LOL!!" or something similar I fucking have no idea about.

xD Hltv is an universe on its own

2023-07-03 22:51

u are so weird its comic

2023-07-03 18:41

Weird? What the fuck does that mean? I mean, coming from some properly aligned person I would take it as a compliment, but in this case I'm not sure.

2023-07-03 19:42

2023-07-03 19:45

U are dumb and cannot understand that’s why xd

2023-07-03 18:45

I iz dumb? For fucks sake.

2023-07-03 19:43

Btw the way you said “these latin american people” was very disrespectful, maybe thats why you recieving hate

2023-07-03 19:59

Sorry for that, I didn't realize it was slur. It was not meant to be a racist statement.

2023-07-03 20:11

Worst comment ever

2023-07-03 18:46

If aleksibot ended up on the navi, what's wrong with the godfallen ending up on furia? haha

2023-07-04 05:31

Forget about FalleN but this FURIA jersey is so ugly Who made this design bro...

2023-07-03 18:11

+1 looks gey

+1 they must do another one

So he's IGL and AWPer now right? No way they sign him if he's not gonna IGL... right?

Right

Yes he will be the igl

Expected

Never gonna be top 1 with art, sadly. Maybe an event or a major.

Maybe thats true.

2023-07-03 18:47

Team oughta peak within a year at most and win the Copenhagen Major.

imagine +skullz here, top 5 instantly

+1 But unfortunatelly, It will be Chelo.

Yes but sadly the buyout for skullz must be something unreal and they make a deal with imperial to pick 2 players at once

O homem chegou. Welcome FalleN

LOL

Lets go!

🐐goat🐐

Pass all trophies, thanks Brazil Supremacy in CS2

LETS GO GOAT FALLEN! THE NEXT MAJOR IS BRAZILIAN

this is FalleN’s last dance, better make it work instead of only working on paper :v

presente

curious to see how this team is going to perform. gl furia !!!

PROFESSOR HAS ARRIVED! LET’S GOOOOOO

fallen washed art useless but I wish them good luck

2023-07-03 18:14

Thats cool, GL!

2024 Major Champion

Hand over the trophies already, there will be absolutelly no team to stop us now

I can see the Brazilian scene is moving on and developing...

EZ MAJOR FOR FALLEN

respect.

PRESENTE PROFESSOR

not an upgrade not a downgrade

2023-07-03 18:20

Im sad for saffee. This guy had huge potential and just never got to show it in Furia

he still has a chance in this new Mibr line

Luckily lets hope that br scene can step up. The old luminosity/sk teams were so fun to watch and most of the br fans were really nice too

2023-07-03 19:32

Let's go legend

Furia Number 1 soon

will he be IGL?

art and fallen strange but fallen will call T side and art CT

Legend.

still tier 15

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk FLAG

hltv.org/img/static/flags/30x20/BR.gif hltv.org/team/8297/furia

2023-07-03 18:58

? rs

2023-07-03 19:31

#15, but polish team... lul hltv.org/team/10278/9ine

2023-07-03 21:28

Not gonna work.

Should have done that 3-4 years ago, but now it's does not make much sense...

Why not? We have igls like karrigan and snappi playing well today… FURIA just need his experience and his approach of the meta to reach kscerato and yuurih peek

2023-07-03 19:02

funny how all these bitches are talking trash when shitty ass karrigan led FaZe to interesting achievements. Fallen has great experience and will be able to create a winning mindset to a set of talented youngsters. Clearly you all know nothing about running shit and must be waking up about now to drink your momma's hot chocolate.

50k likes within 30 minutes Brazil very strong

2023-07-03 18:31

Well, i guess that "last dance" means "keep stealing fat paycheks" in portuguese...

700k usd F

the GOAT

good. No more art igl

he still there to rush and die like shit

2023-07-03 18:48

VAMOS!

GOAT

2023-07-03 18:37

Expectation: Furia no1 HLTV Reality: arT gonna throw more games than never GL you'll need

2023-07-03 18:42

tbh, kinda impossible not to get hyped up with this guy. GOAT szn

Welcome FalleN

twitter.com/jpbarrak/status/167589725994..

is chelo going to FURIA too?

PREPARA O CU GRINGADAAAA

Professor

Lets go Legend!

2023-07-03 18:53

I have an inkling that this night be a great move for Brazilian CS. We need that I need that.

2023-07-03 18:57

2023-07-04 05:35

LETS GOOOO

This team may have a great chemistry with art's agressive playstyle + fallen supporting. Also, kscerato and yuriih are very consistent players. I just dont know how well chelo will fit.

2023-07-03 19:05

I think this will be an insanely strong team

2023-07-03 19:10

The exciment and the not retiriment of fallen make this move worth already. Let's go!

2023-07-03 19:16

Both the 28-year-old and academy product André "⁠drop⁠" Abreu left FURIA in late "July" ahead of a transfer to MIBR. should be "June"

2023-07-03 19:30

Following Furia on social media again. About time that they come with a Tier S++ lineup. Imperial also left with a very strong lineup. 1. Boltz 2. Vini 3. Jota 4. Hen1 5. Felps

2023-07-03 19:39

It's very nice of Furia to hire a photographer for their shooting sessions

2023-07-03 19:48

Furia is on fire <3

2023-07-03 19:51

nice !!!!! let's go !!!!!

2023-07-03 19:52

Presente Professor !!

2023-07-03 20:01

We live in the weirdest timeline, really.

2023-07-03 20:06

gabriel LOLLEN toileto.. GG

Back in the days, my young Fallen used to whoop Device's young ass. Remember these good ol' days, my friend? It was almost 20 years ago, I'd say.

keep dreaming about the past... devve got 4 majors

2023-07-04 20:27

;( you ruined my childhood.

2023-07-05 00:22

legend

2023-07-03 20:15

Best awp/igl to be announced today (aside from Stamina)

2023-07-03 20:19

HYPE!

PRESENT

2023-07-03 20:57

Respect to old dog

i was here!!

2023-07-03 22:23

Goat

2023-07-03 22:35

2023-07-03 22:38

same as giving xyp 2025 tier 1 contract

2023-07-03 23:14

is xyp9x getting good again or is your statement just a lie?

2023-07-04 00:03

I'm hyped

2023-07-03 23:16

G.O.A.T.!

2023-07-03 23:30

POG!! now i am excited for CS2

2023-07-04 00:02

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

2023-07-04 01:24

Lesgo

2023-07-04 01:25

Presente, professor!

2023-07-04 05:23

Why fart is still in the team?

2023-07-04 11:48

hltv.org/stats/leaderboards/opkr/opening.. Dumbo

2023-07-07 12:39

all time lmao

2023-07-09 23:47

2023 hltv.org/stats/leaderboards/opkr/opening..

2023-07-10 00:42

and still got 0.8 kda 😂

2023-07-12 22:16

We are talking about the most aggressive entry fragger, obviously he will either be the 1st to kill or 1st to die

2023-07-13 02:27

the real last dance

2023-07-04 13:22

Furia is doomed now, worst awper and rifler, dead team

2023-07-04 17:17

need some attention little kid? worst awper lol just one of the most respected awper in the world

2023-07-04 19:58

attention? Furia lost for Mongolz lmao

2023-08-01 00:16

this statement just shows how you're mentally lost both in real life and counter strike. the whole sentence apart from making no sense, makes you look like either a baiter or just lost in your thinking line. I dont know if I get worried or pity. Anyway, try to control your emotions and see how it goes before saying anything as cringe as you did.

2023-07-06 06:16

This furia is either gonna be insane or suck. I personally Think They gonna do well

2023-07-04 17:26

This is the most lucid comment so far in the whole thread. 100% precise.

2023-07-07 01:00

One more major for BRazil is coming !!!

2023-07-05 08:40

Should have been done long overdue , but better late than never. I think he can revamp FURIA, provided he doesn't make them play counter nature ( they need an aggressive style letting their aim do the talking )

2023-07-05 12:32

best news in 2023

2023-07-05 15:42

Te amo falleN

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