– When corona happened, and I, like everyone else, was caged in isolation, I started playing Counter-Strike. It gave me a form of connection to the outside world, says Nicklas Bendtner to Danish DR. Counter-Strike is a first-person shooter game, which involves several players carrying out an act of terrorism, while the other party tries to prevent it. Bendtner’s interest in the computer game has grown over the past three years, and now he has started his own e-sports team. It’s called Prosapia, and it was founded to help young and promising talent to reach their goals, he says. The expert would recommend anyone who has big goals with football, and sports in general, to start with the same. – Yes, and especially games like first-person shooters. They have many parallels with sports, says optician Olav Torgersen to news. – Extremely efficient, Torgersen works day-to-day as a product developer and optician at Synsam, and has been close to athletes in top clubs such as Ajax, FC Nordsjælland and Vålerenga Football. Several professional football clubs have adopted gaming tools and VR glasses to develop playing skills in football. EXPERT: Olav Torgersen has tested how soccer players and gamers use their eyes, and found that there are many similar features. Photo: news He believes that all players, both young talent and more experienced ones, can greatly benefit from establishing computer games in the everyday. – Football players need to communicate quickly, see what others are doing, take care and understand the integrity of the game, while performing their own tasks. Working under stress and under focus is very healthy for footballers, says Torgersen. He points out that for gamers it is particularly important to discover what changes in the screen image, in the same way that footballers have to read and interpret what is happening in a situation on the pitch. – Back in the day, Tottenham’s midfield was a very good CS team, and it was because they used it to understand each other better, to interpret each other’s signals, both verbal and non-verbal, and to be effective in communication, he tells. He believes that many people forget how important the brain is in the practice of sport. – The brain is perhaps the biggest resource centre, in addition to muscles, fitness, heart and circulation. All studies show that you train your brain’s abilities extremely effectively by playing computer games, he says. No surprise Nicklas Bendtner goes by the name “B3ND7NER”, and the five-player team aims to establish itself at the top of the Danish “CS: GO1” league. Bendtner says that he has realized the degree of difficulty in being a good gamer. POSTED: On 3 June 2021, Nicklas Bendtner shared that he ended his football career. Now he has a new interest. Here from the time in Rosenborg. Photo: JON OLAV NESVOLD / BILDBYRÅN NORWAY – Knowledge has grown, and I have learned about the e-sports industry and the impact it has on young people, who work really hard to reach the top, he says further. Torgersen does not think it is surprising that Bendtner has taken an interest in e-sports, and already believes that he can become a really good gamer. – The challenge for those who are really good at computer games is that they have played a lot at home, preferably in their room, and they need a structure and a training day that soccer players also need. They need rest, recovery and development of communication, a lot that you get from being a football player, says Torgersen to news. He simply believes that the perfect gamer is a top athlete, and he says that based on the results. Think like a top athlete Astralis, which was the world’s best CS team back in the day, had Kasper Hvidt as sporting director. He is a former national team goalkeeper on the Danish national handball team. NEW ROLE: Former handball goalkeeper Kasper Hvidt. Here from the Olympics in Beijing. Photo: Lee Jin-man / AP One of the world’s best CS players, Nicolai “Dev1ce” Reedtz, was a former national team player in badminton. A weekday with good routines and physical activity, combined with rest and recovery, he believes is just as important in computer games as in sports. – What I see in professional gamers is that they have played a lot to become good, but then it comes to a point that playing prevents them from taking the next step. It’s super important to have breaks, he says and continues: – Then it’s about letting go and having confidence in all of this. And that is something sport gives you, he says.
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