https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/jul/25/how-video-games-are-changing-youth-football-coaching-fifa

The pioneer of ‘the video game approach to coaching’ explains why kids are being taught to transfer skills from Fifa to the pitch

The youth of yesterday will vividly remember playing football in the street: concrete-grazed knees, picking up the ball to get out of the way of oncoming traffic, sprinting home at half-time for dinner. But football and the environment it is played in are different for today’s kids.