Edge: Leadership Secrets from Footballs’s Top Thinkers

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I ask Darwin about the England team and its performance at Euro 2016, where it lost in the Round of 16 to a far less talented, but more cohesive, Iceland team. Darwin was in no doubt where the problem lay. ‘It’s not about skill level but too much choice,’ he says. ‘If an English player has one bad game, he is dropped. But look at Iceland: if you have a bad game for them, you keep your place because there is no one around to come in.’ There may still be a clear skill deficit, but cohesion helps reduce that gap.

According to Darwin’s TeamWork Index, England was the worst team at Euro 2016. ‘Their numbers were diabolical,’ he says. ‘The skill is there and, from that point of view, the individuals are getting better, but the cohesion is not, and so the collective is getting worse.’

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