Sacy on joining T1: “I’m basically here because of my dad”

T1’s new head coach had already turned down other coaching offers, and says his father talked him into the last one.

T1 published “NEW CHAPTER”, a short film about their 2027 Valorant roster, on YouTube on Saturday 04:00 CET. In it, Gustavo “Sacy” Rossi explains that he had already said no to other teams that wanted him as a coach and that T1 were the last offer left. He talked it over with his father first.

And my dad was like “You know, you’re too young to live based on comfort in your life.”

“I’m basically here because of my dad,” the Brazilian said. It fits what he wrote on X when T1 announced him on Friday: he and his wife had just bought a house, and he had never coached a team before.

Sacy also set the target. T1 won Masters Bangkok in 2025, so “there’s only one thing left, and that’s Champions”, he said. He added that he is learning the job from assistant coach sungmin.

TenZ used his part of the film to say he wants to find out “what it looks like if you pair talent with hard work”. crashies, who first played for T1 in 2020, said the offer to return after six years was “definitely special”.

T1’s lineup for the 2027 VCT season:

• TenZ
• crashies
• stax
• BuZz
• iZu
• Sacy (Head coach)
• sungmin (Coach)

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