LoL: A professional Schalke player dies at the age of only 23
In League of Legends, professional player Pavle “Yoppa” Kostić died on November 23rd at the age of only 23. The Serbian top laner last played for the Schalke 04 junior team in LoL. As an e-sports league from the Balkans reports, he died of complications with the virus disease Covid 19.
The Esports Balkan League is one of the LoL regional leagues in the Masters area. The league shared an article on a Serbian news site on November 24th about the death of Yoppa in the wake of complications with the Covid-19 virus. The Serb was only 23 years old.
It is said that death came unexpectedly.
Yoppa was considered the first Serb who could “make it” in LoL
In the message, Yoppa is described as “one of the most promising players in our region”, he was the first Serb who managed to reach first place among the challengers on the EUW server and one of the first Serbs to make it internationally Teams made it.
Player was looking for a new team 10 days ago
The tragic thing is that just a week earlier, the league’s Twitter channel had posted a picture of Yoppa going through all of his contract offers to suggest how coveted Yoppa was in the transfer market.
On November 16, Yoppa posted on Twitter that he was looking for a new professional team.
Where did he play? Yoppa has been under contract with various lower-class LoL teams or academy teams in LoL over the past few years. In 2019 he had a place in the squad of the MAD Lions, today’s top team in the LEC, but they were still under-class at the time. Last year they became champions of the LEC.
In 2020 he was then at Vitality.Bee and in 2021 at Schalke Evolution.
He had only left the Schalke team on November 16. Schalke has sold its professional spot in the league for financial reasons, which will then be completely reorganized for 2022.
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How are the reactions? The former teams of the professional are dismayed by the death of the player:
- Schalke says you are shocked and speechless.
- Team Vitality writes that they have wonderful memories of Yoppa and the time in Berlin.
Many other people who knew Yoppa also show their sadness and dismay over death on Twitter. One says: He can’t believe it. He spoke to Yoppa a few days ago and he said his Covid symptoms were already improving.
In 2019, at Christmas time, we reported on MeinMMO that a professional LoL player died at the age of 24:
The first professional player in the LoL league LCS dies at the age of 24
Reference-mein-mmo.de