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Man Utd keeper De Gea establishes own eSports team

Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea is happy to have established his own eSports team.

De Gea considered collaborating with other teams, but has now created his own, Rebels Gaming.

"Rebels has to do with the feeling that he had within the world of football, of being someone who plays but who also likes other things, such as anime (Japanese animation), playing the drums, video games... He felt a slightly different profile within what was known, and that is why that name fit him at first," Rebels' marketing director, Carles Mayans, explains to EFE.

Rebels competes in three video games: 'League of Legends', the team game consisting of reaching the opponent's base, which is the most representative of the competitive scene; the shooting game with characters 'Valorant' - in whose competition in Spain it debuted this week against other soccer clubs such as Koi or CASE - and 'Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege', another 'shooter' video game, which is precisely the one that De Gea himself practices the most in his spare time.

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