[STATE OF THE GAME] One of the biggest challenges confronting head coaches in professional soccer today is managing different players’ personalities. In asociety that worships individuals and deifies celebrities, there is perhaps no bigger task than convincing a superstar athlete with an oversized ego to favor the interests of the team above his own.

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