1980 Team USA Winter Olympic Hockey Team

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Teamwork is the name of the game, in sports and in life. Without it, success is not possible.

will often times not be the outcome. This is no different from the 2004 Walt Disney.

Pictures film

Miracle

directed by Gavin O’Connor and starring Kurt Russell. In the

film, Russell plays Herb Brooks, the head coach of the 1980 Team USA Winter

Olympic hockey team. The film is based on real life events, and follows Team USA’s.

journey to upsetting the Soviet Union in the semifinal round of the Olympics at the

height of the Cold War. The film begins in 1979, with Brooks being hired to coach.

the Olympics team and recruit the talent to compete with the top nations in the

world. The world is a world. The only issue was that teams like the Soviets
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