ABSTRACT
This chapter describes some features characterizing sport and sport teams that contribute to distinguish sport teams from teams in general. This gives a glimpse into the difference, pluralism, and ambiguities marking a sports team. The chapter explores some sensitizing concepts of complexity theory and link this way of thinking to the team sport context. In specific, emergence, causality, and paradox are focused upon. The chapter discusses paradox in a sports team is illustrated by giving a brief empirical example of the handling of competition immanent in a collaborating team. It summarizes some consequences for researchers if complexity thinking is applied as a framework for empirical studies of sport teams. When looking more closely into how sport teams try to improve their internal collaboration, relational and complementary skills stands out as main aims. Sport teams strive to establish common goals; team goals that the members are more or less committed to.
