{"id":12652,"date":"2016-06-17T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/?p=12652"},"modified":"2016-06-20T17:55:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:55:38","slug":"you-can-tell-a-lot-about-how-people-face-life-based-on-how-they-play-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/news-en\/you-can-tell-a-lot-about-how-people-face-life-based-on-how-they-play-football\/","title":{"rendered":"You can tell a lot about how people face life based on how they play football"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12487 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MBA_CUP_LUISSBusiness.jpg\" alt=\"MBA_CUP_LUISSBusiness\" width=\"1024\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MBA_CUP_LUISSBusiness.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MBA_CUP_LUISSBusiness-810x475.jpg 810w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MBA_CUP_LUISSBusiness-768x450.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>\u00ab<strong>We played with character, passion, and willingness to go beyond our capabilities<\/strong>\u00bb:<strong> our former MBA student Johnny Velasquez told us his experience at the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/news-en\/italy-mba-football-cup-2016\/\">Italy MBA Football Cup<\/a><strong>, the competition between business schools in which the LUISS MBA team participated on June 11-12, 2016<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A very good friend once told me: \u201c<strong>You can tell a lot about how people face life based on how they play football<\/strong>\u201d. Surprised by the uncanny truth in this remark, I started to observe people\u2019s behaviour when playing football. Those with a more rational approach to life tend to prefer being playmakers; others live life by putting their heart and soul onto every challenge and prefer to play as defenders or defensive midfielders; others enjoy taking risks and choose to play as forwards or full backs; some are built to be team leaders and sacrifice to keep the team together in adverse situations. <strong>This year, our team had the right blend of styles complementing each other to make our team highly competitive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive right alignnone wp-image-12493\" src=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MBA_CUP_LUISSBusiness_3.jpg\" alt=\"MBA_CUP_LUISSBusiness_3\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>One game after another, we played with <strong>character<\/strong>, <strong>passion<\/strong>, and <strong>willingness<\/strong> to go beyond our capabilities. We built momentum and worked together as a team to keep ourselves motivated. We adapted to each other even if we hadn\u2019t all met at the beginning of the tournament; after all, we spoke the same language: a shared passion for football! As a result, I learned <strong>our University has an exceptional group of Alumni with a winning mentality<\/strong>. Our team established a solid reputation among all the competing universities in the 2016 MBA Cup edition. After this year\u2019s participation, any team competing in the MBA Cup will know that <strong>within the DNA of every LUISS Alumni there is thirst for victory<\/strong>; to beat us you will have to compete <em>fino alla fine. <\/em>Certainly I can state that <strong>you can tell a lot about LUISS Business School based on how the School plays football<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Gallery<\/h3>\n<p><em>Pictures by Simone Ianni, former MBA<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\" https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/126382065@N05\/albums\/72157669230438912\/player\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our former MBA student Johnny Velasquez told us his experience at the Italy MBA Football Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"twitterCardType":"summary_large_image","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MBA_CUP_twitter.jpg","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"Master":[],"class_list":["post-12652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12652"},{"taxonomy":"Master","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/Master?post=12652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}