@fifatrainingcentre: Help your players understand how a defender’s positioning creates different opportunities for them. If the defender stays deeper, the wide player can provide a short passing option, receive to feet and attack from there. If the defender marks more closely, space opens behind the defender. The wide player can exploit it with a well-timed run in behind. Developed by Horst Wein, Funino has become one of the most influential small-sided game formats in youth football and is especially popular in Spain, the country recently crowned FIFA World Cup champions. It looks simple enough: a 3v3 game in which each team defends two mini-goals, with goals only counting if they are scored from inside a designated shooting zone. But it offers so much. There is no opportunity for players to rest or hide: everyone must remain involved at all times, constantly attacking and defending, with almost no break in the action.

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