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Sports team

Sports team

Individual team that plays sports

This article is about the concept in sports. For the British band, see Sports Team.

A sports team is a group of individuals who play a team sport together.[1] The number of players in the group depends on the sport.

The Bulgaria national football team in 2011
Two teams, black and blue, compete in a field hockey match

Historically, sports teams and the people who play sports have been amateurs. However, by the 20th century, some sports teams and their associated leagues became extremely valuable with net worth in the millions. In 2017 the Dallas Cowboys were rated by Forbes as the world's most valuable sports team at US$4.2 billion.[2] Some individual sports have modified rules that allow them to be played by teams.

Team identities can be formed from a number of sources, most often a type of geographic location, e.g., the Dallas Cowboys are named after Dallas, Texas, US.[3] Some teams can also be named after an institution, such as the Alabama Crimson Tide, who represent the University of Alabama, or the Yomiuri Giants, who are named after the Yomiuri Group, a Japanese media conglomerate.[4]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Sports team". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  2. [2]
    Badenhausen, Kurt (July 5, 2018). "The World's 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams 2017". Forbes. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  3. [3]
    "Dallas Cowboys | Official Site of the Dallas Cowboys". www.dallascowboys.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  4. [4]
    "About the Yomiuri Shimbun Group ： Corporate Profile of The Yomiuri Shimbun". Corporate Profile of The Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-08-30.
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