Will playing Fifa create a new generation of smarter footballers?

We hear a lot about the dangers of video games but what if coaches used them to improve and inspire young players?

By Craig Shields for Nutmeg, part of the Sport Network

Football is a simple game and nowhere more so than at youth level, where children instinctively connect the dots and know to put the round thing into the net - or between the jumpers. In coaching, we tend to worry too much about how successful teams of yesteryear were formed rather than looking forward and taking advantage of modern methods and tools.

Youngsters don't live in the same world Kenny Dalglish or Denis Law grew up in. City streets are no longer littered with footballs - at least in Scotland -but while children are now restricted in ways their fathers and grandfathers weren't offline, they have greater freedom of expression and exploration online.