
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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 $22$  football players took part in the football training. They were divided into teams of equal size for each game ( $11:11$ ). It is known that each football player played with each other at least once in opposing teams. What is the smallest possible number of games they played during the training. 

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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