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Just like the most successful soccer team do not only play beautiful or result oriented, here are five tips on how to make your presentations nice looking and effective at the same time.

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Martin Palermo, “El Loco” – the crazy one – finally played at a World Cup and even scored a goal. What a ride his career has been! It’s a wonderful story about how optimism and hard work can get you anywhere, no matter how big the obstacles you have to overcome on the way there are.

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Soccer tactics are like fashion: They only last for a certain time until new ones come up. Looking at the history of tactics at the World Cups, this article compares fashions in management strategies to soccer tactics fashion and also finds a way to explain why many matches at the 2010 World Cup were quite boring.

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With Diego Maradona and Carlos Bilardo both going below the belt – are Argentina the bad boys of the World Cup? No, they are not; it’s just leaders taking away the pressure from their team. Learn more about craziness on purpose and the role of a wig in this post.

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“The annual Cheese-Rolling has been cancelled because of too much success.” Sounds bizarre? Well read on and find out about the two optional approaches of scaling and becoming bigger vs. shortage on purpose – and why it is a great idea to carry on in case of failure.

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Mario Balotelli is 19 years old and arguably one of the biggest young talents in European soccer for years. He is discriminated for the color of his skin and his style of behavior.
Key learnings: Discrimination kills diversity and young talents must be protected.

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Second Thursday of the month – it’s time for the soccer playmaker series again. After discussing Zico who performed great at the World Cup in 1982 last month and Diego Maradona, who was hot in 1986, let’s move on to a star from the 1990 World Cup. Let’s start with a question: What do the [...]

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Arthur Antunes Coimbra is probably to soccer what Dan Marino is to American Football: Maybe the best play maker ever not to win the big title. Never heard of him? Let’s try his stage name then: The second player in my series on play makers (more about the series here) is no other than “Zico”. [...]

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A few weeks ago I was sitting in a Argentinian restaurant in Antwerp, Belgium on a cold winter night. While I was eating my wonderful steak, my eyes wandered along the memorabilia on the walls. One item caught my attention: A poster with the picture of a former soccer player and just two words written [...]

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