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The Team Zimbabwe drama series to be launched
Search For Common Ground (SFCG)
September 22, 2011

On Friday, September 21st at 7:30, Search for Common Ground and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation will launch a new TV series, "The Team." The Team Zimbabwe is exciting, thrilling, and humorous new football drama that follows two Zimbabwean youth, Pablo and Beans, as they strive to work together and pursue their football dreams.

Their story begins when a well-known club team, The Big City Bullets, comes to their small town to recruit new players, but will only recruit from official teams. Neither Pablo nor Beans is on an official team. The boys take up the challenge and set out to organize their own football team, "The Dreamers," despite the differences between them. Pablo is a city youth who is more interested in girls than in the hard work involved in organizing a football team, and Beans has just arrived from an outlying farm and is struggling with responsibilities to his family.

In order to succeed, "The Dreamers" must find a coach, a sponsor, a field, and even players. More importantly, though, they must learn how to put aside their differences and play as a team. Can they be ready in time to showcase their talents before the Big City Bullets? Or is it all for naught? Tune in Fridays at 7:30 pm and find out!

The Team is a project of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), an international conflict transformation organization working with Zimbabwean actors, writers and directors. Its mission is to transform the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches, toward cooperative solutions. The Team is Search for Common Ground's flagship television program, with versions on air or in production in 16 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

The Series is produced with funding from The U.S. Department of State: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) and Co-produced with Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC).

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