Former Guild, Excel, Fnatic and Man City esports performance coach Edgar Chekera has joined Indian esports organisation Global Esports as sports psychologist.
Not to be confused with the separate Global Esports Federation, the esports team org currently compete in the VCT Pacific League, a top-tier Valorant league also featuring teams like Gen.G, T1 and Paper Rex.
Edgar Chekera is an experienced mental performance coach in UK esports, having worked for Fnatic, Excel Esports (now known as GiantX) and Man City esports/City Football Group.
Most recently, he was working for Guild Esports. Edgar joined as their first performance manager back in late 2021 and left the London-based organisation a year ago.
He also runs Psych-Chek, a performance agency offering consultancy, workshops, profiling and resources.
Edgar said he was ‘excited and happy to be back in VCT and has a bunch of great people to work with’.
Global Esports has other UK talent including player Russ, assistant coach BigTime and head coach Spin.
Their VCT Pacific Valorant player roster consists of Lightningfast (India), Benkai (Poland), Russ (UK), blaZek1ng (Poland), polvi (Finland) and sub skillZ (India).
Edgar Chekera said: “My role in the team is making sure that the guys become the best version of themselves, and feel mentally ready.”
Global Esports recently took part in the Valorant Convergence off-season event in Bangalore, India, where they were knocked out in Group A with one win (2-1 vs Furia) and one loss (0-2 vs Vitality).
They also compete in other titles including Fortnite, Counter-Strike and Dota 2.
In other UK Valorant coaching news, Mini recently returned to Fnatic’s Valorant team. He’ll now be working as assistant coach, rather than his prior role of head coach.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
