The Strength of Team Will

Picture of the Fare-Well Game of Christian Schwarzer

Currently is in Team Handball the European Championship and I just watched the game between Germany and France and it is interesting to see, how important it is to have a strong team will. This tournament is even more fascinating as there are 15 favorites plus Austria, but what makes the difference? First of all we can say that each team is not at their best shape –  many technical errors –  and players not at their best conditional shape. So in general, every team can beat every team in this tournament and it is important that the team will is strong. The players have to handle hard situations and have to overcome weak phases. If you look at games like Austria versus Island, where the draw was secured in the last minute after a three goal lead of Island, or Germany overrun by France at the beginning of the second half with over eight minutes without a goal. Team Handball shows that it is essential to focus on the team and thereby get the team in a positive shape; although there are crises it is necessary that some people take the responsability to succeed in particular moments and additional to these small moments convey the emotions to the rest of the team. It shows that it is essential to give the team a signal and the team has to amplify these single moments to an entire motivational impulse for the team will. However these are some short insights into Team Handball it should be researched how these team will can be used in the team work in a Non-Handball area. Sure this sport lives from the intensive moments, the fast game and the emotions; still if we look at American Football, a game with long breaks, there are similar emotions possible. In context of GameStudy, Counter-Strike has similarities to these team will and the intense moments, and we can see that teams can fight their way back and turn a 14:1 to a 14:16 win. The question in any case is, what is necessary to achieve this emotional base in a team? Is the same target enough and/or has the chemistry be right? In my opinion this is an interesting topic and I hope that I can gain insights in future.