Excel Welcomes Fabian Broich

Excel Esports is extremely excited to announce that Fabian Broich will be joining Excel as its Head of Performance for the 2020 season.

Fabian comes from a mixed traditional sports and esports background, boasting a M.Sc. in Psychology in Sport and Exercise, as well as time working as a sports psychologist with both professional Football players and top flight European League of Legends rosters. Excel believes that Fabian’s breadth in experience will help Excel take bold steps in the evolution of esports player development and consequently spur the growth of British esports talent with it.

This off-season, Fabian will be developing a brand new performance strategy for Excel, which will pave the way for teams all over Europe. The team are extremely excited for their pre-season training with Fabian at Excel’s London-based HQ (#XLHQ) ahead of the 2020 League of Legends European Championship (LEC) season.

Asked about the upcoming season, Fabian Broich had the following to say:

"I am excited to create a new holistic, professional performance environment at Excel. We all want to work together as an organization, on solidifying a great long term vision for the team. I look forwards to finding unique ways to improve performance, well-being and creating the best possible environment for development."

Last season was a season of great learning and, heading into 2020, Excel has ambitions of claiming itself a spot in play-offs, taking Britain, its first-in-class partners and its global community with it. The focus of the 2019/2020 off-season for the organisation has been that of building on Excel’s strong base for performance and investing in its future, with new senior resource such as Fabian.

Asked to comment on Fabian’s appointment, Grant Rousseau, Head of Operations at Excel Esports, had the following to say:

“By bringing Fabian onboard, we hope this shows the League of Legends community how much of a commitment we are making at Excel, to the holistic development of our players. We want them to grow not only as professional League of Legends players, but also as athletes and as people. I can’t wait to start working with Fabian.”

Kieran Holmes-Darby, CEO of Excel Esports also wished to make the following comment:

“At Excel, we’ve always wanted to be bold and break new ground in the esports industry. Moving forwards we’re looking to bring more and more innovative individuals into Excel like Fabian, in the hope that we can revolutionise the way things are done, whilst never losing sight of our roots in the UK.”

For any interview requests, please email alex@excelesports.com