FalleN’s Last Dance: 3 Things Left to Do

For most veterans, by the end of their careers there’s usually just one task left – not to fall apart too early, and that alone is enough. FalleN, on the other hand, still has several things he should manage to do before stepping away. It seems there are roughly three main objectives: win a third Major, prepare FURIA Esports for life without him, and decide in advance what to do after leaving the stage.

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Win a Third Major

This is the most obvious point, but no less important because of that. FalleN will forever remain a two-time Major champion and one of the key figures of Brazilian Counter-Strike. But a third Major is no longer just another trophy in the cabinet. It’s the line after which a similar career becomes almost unattainable for many other players.

What’s especially important is that this goal doesn’t feel like empty romanticism. The current FURIA Esports is not a team simply playing out the season on the strength of its captain’s name. Right now, FURIA is ranked third in the world, and in 2026 has already reached the final of IEM Krakow 2026, where they lost to Team Vitality, and the semifinals of IEM Rio 2026. That means FalleN is still part of a truly competitive team capable of dreaming not only about deep runs, but also about a major title. That’s why a third Major isn’t a fairytale for a nice headline, but the last truly attainable peak.

Of course, any other tier-1 tournament win would be a wonderful gift to fans before his departure. Many of us were cheering for Gabriel at IEM Rio, but unfortunately, a victory on home soil didn’t happen.

Find or Develop a Replacement in FURIA

Strangely enough, this might be even more important than the Major itself. Because in FURIA Esports, FalleN is not just a position on the roster. He is a leadership function, a system of coordinates, and the voice of the team. When a player like that leaves, the club doesn’t just lose a captain, it loses its internal logic: who now brings everything together, who sets the tone, who carries the weight of important matches. FalleN understands this perfectly. Even when FURIA signed molodoy and he stepped away from the AWP, he openly said he wanted to focus more on the captain role in order to eventually replace himself with a new in-game leader within FURIA. In an interview at the end of 2025, he added that the club would inevitably need to think together about the person who will take his place sooner or later.

This is an important detail – it changes the entire perspective on his final season. He’s not playing only for himself; in essence, he’s already preparing the ground for the team after him. The ideal ending for FalleN is not just a situation where FURIA sends off a legend with applause. The ideal ending is when, at the moment of his departure, the team already has a clear answer to the question: “Who leads this project next?” Not necessarily a direct copy of FalleN. Rather, someone to whom he can pass on part of himself: responsibility, mindset, composure, and an understanding of how a top team functions. If this doesn’t happen, even a perfect season can easily turn into just a beautiful farewell postcard. And for a career like his, that’s not enough.

There is also not only a personnel aspect here, but a symbolic one. FURIA Esports is too big a Brazilian brand to simply start urgently searching for a new leader on the market after FalleN leaves. For him, the best way to end this chapter is to ensure that his time in FURIA is remembered not as a late alliance of two great names, but as a period after which the club genuinely became more mature and stable. In this sense, a successor is not needed for sentimentality. A successor is needed so that his departure doesn’t look like a rupture after which everything has to be rebuilt from scratch.

Figure Out What Comes Next

In reality, this question isn’t solved in one evening – especially for someone who has lived the life of a player for more than two decades. Back in 2022, in an interview with HLTV, Gabriel noted that sooner or later he would have to move on to other things, and that it would be a difficult choice.

But there is good news here. Unlike many former players, FalleN is not stepping into a void, he already has a project in Games Academy. As early as 2016, HLTV described it as a platform that helps develop players through lessons, tournaments, and team infrastructure. Gabriel himself said that he has been creating educational content since 2011, and that this entire structure has already helped grow Counter-Strike in Brazil. In this way, he already has the foundation of a second career – educational, entrepreneurial, and possibly even managerial.

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But in reality, this task is difficult not because there are no options, but because these scattered directions need to be assembled into a coherent second life. Many great athletes break not at the moment of retirement, but right after it, when it turns out that status, money, and a well-known name do not answer the question of what to do with their time and identity. For FalleN, this may be the most mature mission of the final stage of his career: not just to prepare for leaving esports, but to live through that transition in advance, while he is still a player, while he still has the rhythm, influence, and energy to shape the next chapter himself.