The total number of athletes in a discipline who are part of an institution constitute its squad.
Plantel is a term with several definitions in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) . The first mentioned meaning considers the campus as a plant nursery .
In everyday language, it is more common for a team to be a group of people with some characteristic in common (such as an activity or a profession). For example: “This company became great thanks to its excellent team of salespeople,” “The team of doctors at this hospital did the impossible to save all the victims,” “I am proud of the team of educators we have at this school.” .
Squad in sports
A staff, therefore, is the personnel available to an institution or entity . In several Latin American countries, the term is used especially to name the group of members of a sports team : “The Club Atlético San Vicente team announced that it will not train until the owed salaries are paid,” “The coach thanked the team.” but he assured that his resignation is inevitable” , “The technical director will travel to Europe with the team” .
At a sporting level, the squad is made up of all the players who belong to the institution , regardless of whether they play or not. A soccer club squad may have, for example, 30 players, of which 16 are part of the team that takes the field in a match and only 11 act as starters or starters.
In this case, for its part, it is common for a roster renewal to occur at the beginning of each season. And the clubs want to achieve the greatest number of victories, so they resort to “selling” the players that no longer interest them and proceed to “buy” others that they consider can make the squad have much more quality and, therefore, Therefore, it is more competitive.
The idea of a squad can be used in the field of entertainment.
The term in the show
Taking this meaning into account, we would have to highlight that squad is a term that is widely used within the world of entertainment. Thus, for example, it is common that when a play is presented, special emphasis is placed on the cast of actors who participate, who will give it quality and will make many people decide to come to see it.
In the same way, that happens in the cinematographic field. And it is common for a good cast of actors to become the main attraction for the public to decide to go to theaters to see it. Thus, for example, it has happened with films such as “Ocean Eleven” , which brought many people to the cinema because it starred some of the most important actors of the moment such as George Clooney , Brad Pitt and Matt Damon .
Other uses of the campus concept
However, we cannot forget that staff is a term that has another meaning in certain countries such as Mexico or El Salvador . In its case, in both it is also used as a synonym for nursery school , where the little ones go to receive their classes.
In some countries, stock is also the set of selected animals that belong to a livestock establishment and the set of good breed animals that are used to obtain reproducers .