Neymar Jr had his team full of mostly Team Furia players and Gotaga made his team consisting of mostly Team Vitality players. The duel was part of an action by a sponsor of Neymar. The ace played alongside Andrei "arT", Henrique "HEN1" and Yuri "yuurih", FURIA players, and André Akkari, a partner in the organization. Gotaga, in turn, summoned Mathieu "ZywOo", Dan "apEX" and Richard "shox", from Vitality, in addition to the streamer Doigby.
Last Friday, the nicknamed 'Le French Monster' announced his reunion with Neymar Jr on PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site that has expanded its family with the addition of the French star. To celebrate Gotaga arrives at Team PokerStars, the Brazilian star challenged him in a special Team Neymar vs. Team Gotaga fight.
Fans were able to watch the pair compete against each other as they play a variety of games, including a € 1,000 buy-in poker tournament. For more encouragement, a special freeroll was offered on PokerStars.fr. The PokerStars community competed for the chance to play against Neymar Jr and Gotaga at the € 1,000 buy-in in the evening.
Neymar even tried, but failed, to win with the challenge in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive against French streamer Corentin "Gotaga". Even with the football idol winning a clutch and killing the best in the world with his knife, his team ended up defeated by 2 to 0, with 16-5 in Hell and 16-7 in Mirage.
In the first map, Inferno, Neymar already stole the show in the first round, getting four kills - three of them while he was alone, with the right to elimination over Mathieu "ZywOo", the current best player in the world.
Despite the effort of the Paris Saint-Germain player, who ended the game with 16 kills and 15 deaths, it was the French who came out with the victory. The highlight was due to apEX, which ended in 27 kills and 13 deaths.
At Mirage, Neymar's team swapped Akkari for Gonezin. The ace failed to repeat the good performance, ended up even dying in the knife to ZywOo, but managed to give change to the star of Vitality (see the videos below). At the end of the match, Neymar had just 6 eliminations and 19 deaths. The highlight was shox, with 27 kills and 11 deaths.
Gotaga is one of the most achieved players in Call of Duty and played in Team Vitality’s COD roster. He along with his team was a pretty strong adversary vs Team Neymar and the match proved quite competitive.
Neymar Jr’s CS:GO skills are proven and lots of his highlights can be found circulating on social media. The footballer also streams on twitch and has gathered quite a following with 1.1 Million followers. His CS:GO rank has been known to be Master Guardian 1, which puts him well above the average rank of Gold Nova 2. He is known to play FACEIT as well and played with other footballers and Brazilian professional CS:GO players alike.
Source: GMB / Globo
