The fluctuating results of the Serie A championship in these first two rounds of the restart after the World Cup, Inter beat Napoli but then drew against Monza, as well as Milan’s elimination from the Coppa Italia, highlight how difficult it is to give continuity to performances and how this is more of a problem affecting the collective and not so much the individual player. It is easier to criticize the individual player or one team unit while it is more difficult to analyze the results in terms of team play. Even among nonsports teams, such as hospital teams, it has been found that those that work to improve collaboration on specific team goals are 2.8 times more likely to achieve high performance than teams that do not.
This is because teams are identifiable units of work, composed of multiple people with several unique characteristics who continually interact with each other.
The team characteristics include:
- dynamic social interactions with meaningful interdependencies,
- shared and valued goals,
- a discrete duration of time,
- distributed skills
- clearly assigned roles and responsibilities.
Thus, task interdependence among players if practiced constructively fosters the relationship between teamwork and performance, demonstrating the importance of teamwork.
At this regard, it finds confirmation in the saying that choosing the 11 best players for each role does not necessarily make the best team.
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