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''The Team'' (also known in French-language series as ''L'Équipe'') is an international multi-ethnic and multicultural television series produced by Search for Common Ground (SFCG).〔(Search for Common Ground (SFCG) website )〕 It is a flagship television program by SFCG, used as an education tool through a dramatization of various young players associated to each other through their common love of association football (soccer). The common thread between all the series is promote, through the common love of the game of football (soccer), the importance of education, commitment, cooperation (team work), diversity, gender equality, overcoming of adversity and conflict resolution and bridging of differences between people of various ethnic, religious, economic and societal backgrounds by bringing them together. ==Context== Using the popularity of football (called soccer in America), the show uses sports as a metaphor to unification while addressing local, deep-rooted conflict. The show follows specific characters on a football team who must learn to work together to overcome their differences and win the game. The show is specifically tailored to the country in which it airs.〔Planet Green, "'The Team' Promotes Nonviolent Conflict Resolution Through Soccer" http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/the-team-promotes-nonviolent-conflict-resolution-through-soccer.html〕 Each country has different issues it faces, and the scripts represent these differences. The cast, writers and production crews are, whenever possible, all indigenous to the country. In the DRC, ''The Team'' deals specifically with women's rights.〔http://www.secondact.com/print/using-storytelling-to-change-the-world〕 Part of the success of ''The Team'' is that the audience can relate to the characters. The characters portrayed on the soap opera are from varied ethnic, religious, educational and economic backgrounds.〔Agencies take soap operas into life messaging: http://webarazaidentity.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=164:agencies-take-soap-operas-into-life-messaging&catid=35:the-scenefont-style:italic〕 ''The Team''aired in a dozen countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, notably Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco and had already aired as a radio program in Ethiopia. Second seasons were in production in three countries.〔Nairobi Peace Initiative, http://www.npi-africa.org/docs/the_team_launch_doc.pdf〕 According to the ''Boston Globe'', nearly 25% of Moroccans watch the locally produced episodes of ''The Team''.〔The Boston Globe, How Soap Operas can Change the World, Ideas Section http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/05/02/how_soap_operas_could_save_the_world/〕 In 2007, Kenya experienced post-election violence. In response to this violence, SFCG, in partnership with the Nairobi Peace Initiative, Media Focus on Africa, the UK's Department for International Development and the US Agency for International Development, launched ''The Team: Kenya'' The show follows players from the Imani F.C. team. Imani translates as Faith in the local language. The players are from all different parts of Kenyan society- rich and poor, educated and uneducated, urban and rural and male and female. The players have to work together to win games, and through working together, they overcome their differences. The show originally broadcast in May, 2009. A third season is currently in production.〔The Team, Kenya website http://www.theteamkenya.com/, Nairobi Peace Initiative, http://www.npi-africa.org/docs/the_team_launch_doc.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Team (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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