I watched a video 30+ years ago, I think it was James Womack, author of Lean Thinking, who compared the game of American football to the game of European futbol, which Americans know as soccer.
The objective in both games is similar, to advance the ball down the field against the opposing team. In American football, the play proceeds in disjointed "downs", with lots of pauses and resets between plays, using a memorized play-book and each player on the team has a specialized role as a blocker or pass receiver, etc. The game of futbol/soccer appears to a football fan to be more chaotic, where players appear to have more flexibility, more autonomy, and the play proceeds without pauses for planning, without any apparent central coordination.
I offer this contrast as an analogy in discussion of detailed work instructions versus relying on the judgement and competence of workers to get the job done efficiently and expeditiously. Both football and futbol players are "trained" skilled athletes, both know what Success looks like, but the futbol/soccer player is more consistent with the definition of Lean in the modern era.