Eleven Stars Good, One Team Better!

[Sir X]

This is a continuation and further development of the ideas explored in ‘Who’s the Star, the Player of the Team?’, ‘What are the Ingredients of a Great Team?’, and ‘The Recipe for a Great Team?’.

Let’s start with a quick question. Who is the ‘best player in the world’? Messi? Ronaldo? What about Pele, or Cruyff, or Maradona, or Zidane?

Is it coincidence that all those names considered to be the ‘best players in the world’ are goalscorers, considered flair players, and part of a successful team? But would they still be great players if taken out of their context? Would the ‘best player in the world’ be considered great if they were being asked to play in an unsuitable role? Could a player look ‘great’ in one system and ‘average’ in another? If a player’s set of attributes are matched to a suitable role you’d expect to see the player meet the requirements of the role and thrive. But all players work in partnerships and combinations. If those around them are not suitably matched to their roles it will detract from their performance. Things he requires from others around him will not be delivered. He will have to compensate for them. He will not be able to fully depend on others and this will inhibit him from fully expressing himself. Would the ‘best player in the world’ be considered great in a team that didn’t complement each other to make the most of their strengths?


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[Stonigut]

Great players are great because of results and achievement, they do what is required better than anyone else hands down, they are the 0.001% to the right on the bell curve. They bring something different and new, they revolutionize and change the trajectory of their teams.

Results and achievements is what separates the great from the good, so Pele won three world cups and scored 1239 goals or something like that, even though he was not a real factor in 1962 he still was on the team and inspired it to greatness where Maradona also great but not in the same league as he won one cup and just never achieved individually on the same level as Pele, put these guys anywhere and they change team culture and chemistry by their super deeds and they would eventually get back to where they produce best regardless of where they are put within reason, destructive management of course can ruin anything but assuming reasonable management striving to maximize talent, cream rises to the top Everytime.