there's no i in team...but there is in nation

I found the metaphor used early on in chapter five to be helpful in my understanding of the content of the chapter, mostly I think because of how much a sports fan I am. The metaphor was about how sports try to create level playing fields for the athletes. Moreover, "players also want games to be fair, to be structured so that the better team will tend to win" (sec.5.1 3rd pgh). However, as Pogge notes, there are added pressures associated with success on the major league level. Some players are concerned more with winning regardless (well almost regardless) of the cost. Beyond breaking the rules of play, some players go to sketchy, yet allowed, forms of play to help stack the odds in their favor. For example I doubt a player would poison another player. But he/she might be biased in arguing calls or even commit a violation on purpose in attempts of hurting/re-injuring another player for the opposing team. A problem soon arises when we begin to discuss what the idea of a level playing field means. Expanding on the metaphor further the players can symbolize entire nations and the game is about quality of life.
That being said, at the end of the chapter Pogge stresses as Mike pointed out in his post, a call to action. Pogge even goes as far as to say that "by continuing to support the current global order and the national policies that shape and sustain it without taking compensating action toward institutional reform or shielding its victims, we share a negative responsibility for the undue harms they foreseeably produce" (sec 5.4 1st pgh). It seems Pogge would like us all to be practice good sportsmanship in the game of life and play for the team (world population) and not for ourselves (individual nations). Keeping this in mind I can't help but wonder about what a universally accepted level playing field means or what it would look like.

Playing devils advocate I wonder if we can expand the sports metaphor further and suggest that Pogge is trying to be the coach of the team, telling the players how to play efficiently for the good of the time. As anyone who is a sports fan knows, there are many cases where players disregard the coach because of selfish interest or because they don't agree with the coaches philosophy. My question is what do we do when other players (nations) don't want to play for the team's sake and rather play for their own? We can't just bench or trade other nations.