Team sport Team sport A team sport includes any sport which involves two or more players working together towards a shared objective. A team sport is an activity in which individuals are organized into opposing teams which compete to win. Examples are basketball, volleyball, rugby, water polo, handball, lacrosse, cricket, baseball, and the various forms of football and hockey. Team sports are practiced between opposing teams, where the players interact directly and simultaneously between them to achieve an objective. The objective generally involves teammates facilitating the movement of a ball or similar object in accordance with a set of rules, in order
Ball possession is considered to be the most possessive player in recent years. Paul Scholes of Manchester United and England, was also very famous for his passing skills and the ability to dominate ball possession. Teams that play possession football often try to press their opponents high in the pitch, so to recover the ball rapidly. As a result, the defensive line of team that play possession football is usually place very high in the pitch, around the halfway line and not unusually, in the opponents half. When the team loses the ball the defensive line must move rapidly otherwise the team