[STEAM] T1 adds LCK legend and former Worlds champ to coaching staff in bid for three-peat

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Following their 2024 Worlds win, T1 will be expanding its coaching staff with none other than Mata, a legendary LCK player who won the 2014 Worlds with Samsung White. Mata also played for T1 for a little over a year between 2018 and 2019, and might prove a great addition.

Mata’s inclusion was

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on X on Nov. 21. “Mata has joined T1’s LCK team as a coach,” the post reads. “Show your support as he returns as a coach, and we look forward to building up the future together with him” (translated from Korean by X). Mata’s addition as a coach might be related to the

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, another of T1’s coaches, due to mandatory military service. The 2014 World Champion has been a coach for a while, helping Gen.G score an

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(ironically against T1 itself), and working with Royal Never Give Up in the LPL. Now, he’s back at one of his former homes, hopefully ready for a Worlds three-peat.

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