{"id":15421,"date":"2022-10-15T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T11:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/furia-engages-co-owner-akkari-as-a-coach-for-rio-major"},"modified":"2022-10-15T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T11:44:54","slug":"furia-engages-co-owner-akkari-as-a-coach-for-rio-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/furia-engages-co-owner-akkari-as-a-coach-for-rio-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Furia engages co-owner Akkari as a coach for Rio Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian esports organization FURIA Esports has engaged its co-owner Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Akkari as a coach for Intel Extreme Masters Rio Major 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dust2.com.br\/noticias\/31578\/furia-inscreve-akkari-como-treinador-no-iem-rio-major\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dust 2 Brasil reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>47-year-old Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Akkari is a Brazilian professional poker player. He is a member of Team PokerStars Pro Brazil and is the winner of the 2011 World Series of Poker $1,500 No-Limit Hold&#8217;em event. But he is not a CS:GO pro player or coach.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for this decision is that Furia&#8217;s head coach Nicholas &#8220;guerri&#8221; Nogueira is not eligible to stand behind the team at Valve-sponsored events due to his ban for the coaching bug.<\/p>\n<p>guerri hopes that Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Akkari will be able to emotionally support the players in difficult moments during the competition by being close to the team.<\/p>\n<p>The Rio Major will run from October 31 to November 13. 24 teams will compete for a prize pool of $1,250,000.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian esports organization FURIA Esports has engaged its co-owner Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Akkari as a coach for Intel Extreme Masters Rio Major 2022, Dust 2 Brasil reports. 47-year-old Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Akkari is a Brazilian professional poker player. He is a member of Team PokerStars Pro Brazil and is the winner of the 2011 World Series of Poker $1,500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":15422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}