NAVI captain Boombl4 to miss start of ESL Pro League group stage Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoNatus Vincere have announced that CS:GO captain Kirill \u2018Boombl4\u2019 Mikhailov will not take part in the first group stage gmes of ESL Pro League Season 15. The Russian in-game leader returned a positive test ahead of the trip to D\u00fcsseldorf and will miss the team\u2019s first games. Replacing him will be academy player Daniil \u2018headtr1ck\u2019 Valitov, who has been spotted practising with the team ahead of their March 30 match against AGO. Boombl4\u2019s absence will come as a blow to NAVI, who have been placed in a tricky ESL Pro League group that also includes Heroic, Astralis, Complexity, Evil Geniuses, and AGO. NAVI are looking to use this tournament as a show of unity amid the war between Ukraine and Russia. After IEM Katowice, the team\u2019s members went in different directions, with the Ukrainians remaining in Poland, while the Russians went back home. In a March 28 interview with the Washington Post, NAVI CEO Yevhen Zolotarov made it clear that the organization will not work \u201cwith people who live in Russia and who pay taxes to the Russian Federation.\u201d NAVI #CSGO line-up will play #ESLProLeague Season 15 with a replacement. Find out the details in the article. \ud83d\udcf0: https:\/\/t.co\/NU5IGVLOUS#navination #CSGO pic.twitter.com\/Wj2hTMnrGp \u2014 NAVI (@natusvincere) March 29, 2022 Boombl4 and Denis \u2018electronic\u2019 Sharipov, NAVI CS:GO\u2019s Russian players, have not announced whether they plan to relocate to another country. In NAVI\u2019s latest VLOG, posted on March 29, Aleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyliev said that he remains hopeful the war will not lead to roster changes. \u201cI don\u2019t know, it\u2019s a difficult situation,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I think there won\u2019t be. I guess it\u2019ll be okay. I hope so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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