Sport at the office. Which game do you play at work?

What are the differences between an office and a field? Between a department and a team? Between a leader and a captain? Between the hours at the office and the hours at the training complex? Between your colleagues and your team players?

We have learnt to decide which game we want to play in this life. We did not make it to become professional football players but we decided to continue, live and work as we do.

We show up on time to the field-office, because we want to play every game and as a good coach would say “we play as we train”. It doesn’t matter what day of the week it is, you have to always be ready. It doesn’t matter what your regular position is; sometimes you have to help the other players and engage yourself in a different role by playing another position. You might like it or not, but you know that you don’t play alone, you don’t walk alone and there is always a team behind you.

If you play here, you know that there is a leader inside of you, you can be loud or quiet but you know you want be part of every single match-project. You want your minutes of glory and then you want to share the result with the rest of the team. More than once, you might fail, the coach will be mad, but the truth is that you are more angry than he or she is. They believe in you, they expect so much from you and that is why they demand you to score, to defend and to perform.

As a regular office in Spain, we have our coffee breaks, where we try to avoid talking about what happened on the field, but when someone needs it, we will talk and we will try to support each other, to cheer that person up or to make him or her understand what and why something has happened.

All of them support Real Madrid, too boring of course. Only one supports a different club, and it is not the FC Barcelona, that would be too obvious.

I support Atletico de Madrid, don’t you see the passion here?

It doesn’t matter which team we love, we like football more than anything else in the world and we will spend time together outside the office, sometimes to play or just to watch.

As a result, we have become a group of friends, playing in the same team.

Today, we have to say “goodbye” to one of our core players (he will be going to play for the Atlanta office), he will play as a striker, he wants to score and take part in every match and every game. He is the essence of what sport is: commitment, respect, transparency, objectivity, creativity, innovativity, a team player, a leader, a friend.

See you on Skype,

The Madrid office.

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