Ex-Arsenal soccer star Bendtner launches esports firm

Former Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner, often known as ‘Lord Bendtner’, has launched his personal esports firm, referred to as Prosapia Esport ApS, to assist develop younger expertise.

Danish media outlet Finans experiences that Bendtner’s private holding firm has not too long ago based an organization referred to as Prosapia Esport ApS, the place the previous Arsenal striker is registered as CEO.

In line with the corporate’s register, it goals to “develop younger individuals for sports activities occasions in esport with a view to growing expertise within the esports setting.”

This isn’t the primary time that Bendtner has been related to esports and gaming. In his actuality present ‘Bendtner & Philine’, which aired on Discovery+, the Dane spoke with reverence about esports’ potential as a type of competitors and enterprise alternative.

Bendtner joined Arsenal in 2004 and left the membership in

“I’ve little question that, inside 10-20 years, esports will likely be one of many largest sports activities on the earth, if not the largest,” Bendtner is quoted by Dust2.dk as saying. “It might be silly of me to not go in and spend money on it in a comparatively early course of the place you possibly can nonetheless be concerned with out having to spend actually, actually large cash.”

In 2018, Bendtner posted an Instagram story of him watching an IEM Katowice CS:GO match between FaZe Clan and Fnatic. “CS on DR3,” he wrote, referencing the Danish TV channel that was broadcasting the sequence.

Bendtner started his skilled profession on the age of 16 at Arsenal, scoring 34 objectives in 108 Premier League video games for the membership. After leaving the ‘Gunners’ in 2014, he performed for Wolfsburg, Nottingham Forest, Rosenborg and Copenhagen earlier than retiring from soccer in 2019. Whereas representing the Denmark nationwide group, he scored 30 objectives in 81 appearances.