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Your startup needs a scoring dream team

In football, the coach is usually not allowed to play, while in business is the vision bearer is literally in the field to remind the team what they had practiced. [Courtesy]

I was watching the Community Shield match the other day between Liverpool and Manchester City, where the former lost during penalties. I noticed that team work is what holds the club together. 

And there is this new rule by Fifa that the team coaches can also be carded if they infringe on rules. Manchester City’s manager, Pep Guardiola was very active on the touchline, passionately instructing his job players, but he soon fell foul of the officials. There was a foul that the referee did not penalise, which incensed Guardiola and earned him a yellow card for his angry reaction.

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