diversity (measured by linguistic distance) can double a team's goal differential over the course of the tournament. One threat …

-standard deviation increase in the average team's linguistic distance (our proxy for cultural heterogeneity) is associated with a 0 … that by incorporating additional (culturally inherent) skills to its roster, an average team could change an outcome from a …

performance of football clubs that are playing in national and international competitions. The novel features of the proposed … approach include the relationship between the different sub-processes that make the team transform their salaries into sporting … sports results of the clubs. The proposed approach has been applied to 22 teams, from six major European football leagues …