How Full-Backs Quietly Took Over the Game: Why Coaches Now Build Around Them

When the final whistle blows and pundits point to a striker or a No. 10, there’s a good chance the decisive action began not in the centre but from a full-back. Once a defensive afterthought, the full-back has become an attacking engine, a player who carries the ball into the final third, creates overloads, and…