Team sport is a group of people that act together towards a common objective. This objective usually entails beating an opposing team or entertaining an audience. There are various types of team sports including basketball, football, and cricket. However, some team sports do not involve competing with an opposing team such as mountaineering.
The best thing about playing team sport is the social interaction it allows. It teaches children the importance of communication both spoken and unspoken and how to work with a variety of different personalities. This is a valuable skill that will benefit them in life.
In addition to social skills, team sports also teach children the value of hard work and dedication. They learn to push themselves when they are tired and that it pays off. They also learn how to handle losses and use them as a learning experience rather than dwelling on them. These lessons are invaluable and will serve them in all aspects of their lives.
Unlike individual sports, team sports typically require competition and cooperating with the same teammates or training partners simultaneously. Previous psychological research suggests that this simultaneous demand in team sports may make cooperation and competitiveness more incompatible than in individual sports. Study 1 showed that, indeed, team athletes attributed a higher demand to compete and cooperate with the same teammates or training partners to their focal sport than did individual athletes. The authors speculate that this difference reflects a cognitive representation of competition that excludes cooperation to a lesser extent for team athletes than for individual athletes.