Today marks the end of Manuel "LaMia" Mildenberger's professional gaming career in League of Legends.
Season 1 Champion, worldwide role-model and extremely handsome. This sums up Manuel Mildenberger, better known as LaMia. Today we announce the retirement of the Fnatic AD Carry as he has decided to begin a new chapter of his life, in Taiwan.
Once upon a time, our head sponsor RaidCall, took the Fnatic LoL team to Taipei, Taiwan for a week. This is where Manuel met his girlfriend, and since then he's been very keen on the Asian lifestyle. Now the perfect time has come for him to make the big move, the end of season 2 for Fnatic. This has been his plan for a while and we fully support his choice.
With season 3 qualifiers not taking place until early next year, LaMia has given the team plenty of time to rejoice and get back to where they need to be. We hold great confidence that they will do so. With this being said, we'd like to share this dedicated video to LaMia, thanking him for his time and showing what a fantastic experience he has had, being a pro gamer.
There are not many words we can put together to express LaMia's retirement, therefore we have made this tribute video which goes through LaMia's legenday time in Fnatic. Statements are right below and they include some words from former team-mates Shushei and Mellisan.