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As I was watching World Cup Soccer over the past few weeks, it dawned on me that soccer, when played at its highest level, is the ultimate team sport. Eleven men, playing together, to win together.
Sure, basketball and baseball and football are team sports as well. But more than any of those sports, you have to play together as a team to excel in soccer. In soccer, one player cannot take over. You don’t hear about a player being “on fire” and almost single-handedly carrying a team to victory.
Winning in soccer requires not playing as eleven highly skilled athletes, but rather as a single fluid team. Watching the highlights of the World Cup, one thing that stands out is that it is extremely difficult to create goals on your own. There’s almost always a well-timed pass and a question about being onside that leads to a spectacular goal.
That’s also why some highly ranked teams struggle in the World Cup. The individual players are amazing, but they are not used to playing together. They can’t anticipate each other’s moves. They don’t communicate well on the field. They simply are not working together as a single unit.
Watching the beauty of the World Cup was a refreshing change from my memories of soccer as a kid. Soccer, at the level I played, aka the lowest level, is eleven kids running around excitedly. I would chase the ball no matter where on the field it was. I would run right next to my teammates, instead of creating passing opportunities. And I’m pretty sure I even stole the ball from a teammate or two. The amount of duplicated effort and missed opportunities was amazing. Goals were only scored due to individual valiant efforts. But I was eight, and I had fun.
Spain, on the other hand, showed how to truly play together as a team. They allowed only two goals throughout the entire tournament! And the winning goal: A beautiful pass from Cesc Fabregas to Andres Iniesta. A question about being onside. And then a fantastic strike on goal. GGGGOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLL!
Congratulations to Spain. In the ultimate team sport, you were the ultimate team.
At Sliced Simple, we want to make real estate more of a team sport. Today, home buyers and their real estate agents are duplicating efforts and missing opportunities. By enabling buyers and their agents to work seamlessly together, we believe they can achieve spectacular goals.
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