Stuart Holden for Bolton. Ex pro CS player

[Wilkeh]

http://www.socceram.com/story/0,21644,13873_6847631,00.html - I can actually remember his name back in the CPL days!

 

[Wilkeh]

Before his professional sports career, Holden played competitive Counter-Strike under the alias Holden, most famously playing for Forsaken in the United States. During his time with the team, he helped them to a second place at the WCG 2002 qualifier and 8th place at CPL Summer 2003. His CS career took a back seat as he began to play soccer seriously for Clemson University eventually leading into his MLS career. Holden has admitted that he is slightly embarrassed by his gaming career, stating, "When I first started playing football professionally it all started to come out and I was a bit ashamed of it. I tried to hide it but eventually I've just started to embrace it. There's nothing I can do. I've deleted it off my Wikipedia page about four or five times and someone just keeps putting it back up there!"

 

[Cookie]

Can remember him from CS too

 

[iain187]

lol @ keep on deleting it from wikipedia

 

[conneh]

Don't know why he seems to think it is geeky. He was good at something.

 

[Silent_Scone]

That is a bit random, then again it was the most popular online game for yonks... I miss 1.5

 

[Darren S]

Never, ever 'got' CS at all. Just thought it was a frustrating FPS all told.

That said, I understand why billions of people play(ed) it.

D.