Football study reveals performance drops with too many star players

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Football study finds performance declines when over 60% of a team are star players. Research on 1,750 matches indicates that excessive star power can hinder team success, suggesting strong collective conditions are more crucial than individual talent alone. The study analyzed passing patterns and found that decentralized, dense passing networks benefit teams, even those with fewer stars, outperforming less organized star-studded squads.


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