72-year-old politician becomes the world\u2019s most unlikely esports team owner Instagram: screenwolves72-year-old Spanish politician Celia Villalobos has officially launched her own esports team, called Screen Wolves, in one of the most unexpected announcements you\u2019ll see for a while. Esports is an ever-growing industry, with multitudes of A-List celebrities now investing in orgs, launching their own teams and getting involved in the esports scene of their favorite games. Be it Drake with 100 Thieves, NFL star Kyler Murray\u2019s investment in FaZe Clan or NBA legend Shaquille O\u2019Neal\u2019s involvement with NRG, there are some huge names in the space. Now, politicians aren\u2019t typically associated with esports, but even despite being older than the typical esports demographic, Villalobos has proven that that doesn\u2019t have to be the case. Screen Wolves was officially announced on Monday, May 24, with a promo video featuring Villalobos herself gaming in the new team\u2019s jersey. In the 40-second announcement video, she says: \u201cI have always been in the spotlight. Criticism, mockery, reproaches\u2026 A lifetime marked by a single moment. A moment that almost made me forget what I liked. \u201cBut you know what? That\u2019s over. No more listening to you. I\u2019m done keeping quiet. It\u2019s time to show the face. It\u2019s time to play.\u201d As of yet, Screen Wolves do not have any teams or players in their books, and it\u2019s unclear what their plans are in terms of which esports they want to enter. Villalobos has not made a habit of discussing which esports are her favorites, so it\u2019s hard to tell what her plans are going forward. However, she did \u2014 somewhat controversially \u2014 get caught playing Candy Crush on her iPad while she was meant to be presiding over a debate in Congress in 2015. Whatever esports she decides to enter, Villalobos is clearly aiming to stay ahead of the curve, and it\u2019s pretty impressive considering her age. Who knows \u2014 maybe we\u2019ll see Screen Wolves in the LEC or at CS:GO Majors sometime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
72-year-old politician becomes the world\u2019s most unlikely esports team owner Instagram: screenwolves72-year-old Spanish politician Celia Villalobos has officially launched her own esports team, called Screen Wolves, in one of the most unexpected announcements you\u2019ll see for a while. Esports is an ever-growing industry, with multitudes of A-List celebrities now investing in orgs, launching their own […]<\/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-66312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66312","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=66312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}