apEX compares \u201cgifted\u201d ZywOo to Lionel Messi Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoDan \u2018apEX\u2019 Madesclaire has heaped praise on Vitality teammate Mathieu \u2018ZywOo\u2019 Herbaut, comparing him to football superstar Lionel Messi. Despite having only started his professional career in 2018, ZywOo has already etched his name into the Counter-Strike history books, such has been the level of his performances since bursting into the upper echelons of the game. ApEX has had the privilege of watching ZywOo\u2019s rise to prominence from up close, as the pair have been teammates since October 2018. The French sniper was named the best player in the world in 2019 and 2020, but in 2021 he had to watch as NAVI\u2019s Aleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyliev stole the show after a phenomenal year that surpassed even the wildest of expectations. S1mple and ZywOo have been at the Counter-Strike summit in the same way that Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have in football. They are both in the prime of their careers and are expected to continue to dominate the game for many more years, but apEX believes that there\u2019s something that sets the two talents apart. \u201cHe\u2019s the chosen one,\u201d apEX told Dexerto when asked about the fact that ZywOo was born on the same day that Counter-Strike was released. \u201cI like football a lot, and for me, Messi is like ZywOo. Ronaldo is more like s1mple, a really hard worker. The other two are just gifted. \u201cHe [ZywOo] is like an angel coming from the sky.\u201d ZywOo will play his first official match of 2022 on January 30 as Vitality will take on Evil Geniuses in the BLAST Premier Spring Groups. Discover more: As the CSGO season begins, all eyes remain on NAVI – It will be the first match of the new Vitality squad, strengthened in the offseason with the arrivals of Peter \u2018dupreeh\u2019 Rasmussen, Emil \u2018Magisk\u2019 Reif, and head coach Danny \u2018zonic\u2019 S\u00f8rensen from Astralis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
apEX compares \u201cgifted\u201d ZywOo to Lionel Messi Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoDan \u2018apEX\u2019 Madesclaire has heaped praise on Vitality teammate Mathieu \u2018ZywOo\u2019 Herbaut, comparing him to football superstar Lionel Messi. Despite having only started his professional career in 2018, ZywOo has already etched his name into the Counter-Strike history books, such has been the level of his performances […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}