The Team (also known in French as L'Équipe) is an international multi-ethnic and multicultural television series produced by Search for Common Ground (SFCG).
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 (teamwork), 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.
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 players are from all different parts of Kenyan society- rich and poor, educated and uneducated, urban and rural and male and female.