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05 Tuesday Feb 2008

Posted by Prem Rao in A Step A Day

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I have found excellent examples of teamwork from sport. Occasions when teams considered far superior were astonishingly defeated by opponents who were very much the underdogs. In the 1990 World Cup, Cameroon beat the defending champions Argentina 1-0 in Milan. In 2002, little fancied Senegal beat World Champions, France in Seoul. What is interesting is that perhaps man for man, the more fancied teams had far superior players but they did not combine as well as one would expect. On the other hand, the underdogs probably had inferior players but the synergy they displayed was enough to beat better players.

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