Team World

Not to be confused with All Star Team or Dream Team (disambiguation).

World Team or Team World is a designation for a sports team in many competitions. It is usually equivalent to a "rest of the world" team, which is pitted against a particular territory.

Competitions featuring a world team

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Competition Sport Contributing regions Notes
National Hockey League All-Star Game Ice hockey non-North American

From the 48th (1998) edition to the 52nd (2002) edition, the game featured a Team World versus Team North America

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2013 CrossFit Games CrossFit non-USA The 2013 edition of the CrossFit Games competition features a Team USA vs Team World [3]
NBA Africa Game 2015 Basketball non-African The inaugural NBA Africa Game featured Team Africa facing Team World [4]
Continental Cup of Curling Curling outside of North America Team World or Team Europe against Team North America
NBB All-Star Game Basketball non-Brazilian Equipe Mundo (Team World) against Equipe Brasil (Team Brazil), based on player nationality
Note that in the above sports there also exist national teams taking part in other competitions

All-World's Team

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Some "Team World" or "World Team" teams are all-star teams with rosters drawn up from the world's players as an honors project.

Team Sport Contributing Era Notes
regions leagues
World Team of the 20th Century Soccer World FIFA 20th century soccer (association football) all-star team of stars of all eras of the 20th century [5]

References

  1. ↑ Dave Stevenson (23 January 2015). "NHL All Star Game: North America Vs. The World". Fansided. Sports Illustrated.
  2. ↑ Joe Lapointe (19 January 1998). "HOCKEY; North America All-Stars Conquer World". New York Times.
  3. ↑ CrossFit (29 August 2013). "Announcing the Roster for Team World". CrossFit Games.
  4. ↑ "Team World triumphs in inaugural Africa Game". ESPN. 1 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Brown, Gerry, and Morrison, Michael (eds.; 2003). ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac. New York City: ESPN Books and Hyperion (joint). ISBN 0-7868-8715-X.

See also


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