Football the best example for a successful company!!!

Football, one of the most famous and popular game all around the world, it can unite men, women, and children in this passion; it can even be a real addiction for some of them.
Every 4 years the supreme competition is hold in some part of the GLOBE, for 2010 it will be the first time the world cup is visiting Africa, it’s an honor for every African and a pleasure to welcome the best players and teams on our land to participate to this great sport party. But if a fan like me sees the happy side of the competition, with the wonderful opportunity to meet with different people from all over the world, the real football fans are waiting for those 90 minutes of stress and strong feeling wishing and praying for the victory of their team.
Let’s talk about the game, first how can we call it a game, basically football is an institution, with hierarchy , rules and challenges , it cannot be reduced to just a game.
The team is composed of the coach or somehow the headmaster, he will decide who ever can join the team or not, can play and how to play, then the 11 main players everyone will have a specific position on the field with a fixed role to play, but football might be a hard game so for the world cup around 11 others players will be the backup of the main team.
Obviously the target of the team when it joins the final part of the World cup is to go ahead, try the best and be able to win the cup, so the team can bring it back home and get the honor and the pride to be considered as the best team all over the world. But this cannot happen with a simple football team from my city for example, those players are professionals, they will spend over 8 hours per day for training, running and learning new techniques.
Everyday a new challenges, everyday a new difficulty to be a successful football player, we need to be quick, precise, serious, good at calculating, a team player and ambitious. The team is somehow divided to 4 parts: goalkeeper, defenders, midfielders and attackers. And a good coordination of all those people will provide the best result.
If we make a relationship between a football team and a ZTE one we will be able to associate the different parts. We can assign the coach job to the general manager, the attackers are the marketing guys, the midfielders from the support department and the defenders from the R&D, and same as for the football team the right coordination between all these people will provide the best result for the company.
The General Manager will draw the path or the way that the company needs to take, to be sure that every operation will be executed correctly. The Marketing guys will be in the front side to present the best of the company, but for this they need to be served correctly by the support team or the midfielders. And if there is any attack (like customers unsatisfied or asking for additional information) the R&D is here to improve and defend the company name. And by combining all this knowledge, abilities and hard work the team will be really successful.
This year the rainbow nation is rising up and welcoming all the nations for a great competition.
ZTE Corporation can be considered as the rainbow company with thousands of foreigner getting on board, working day by day with the Chinese colleagues to face the big challenges.