The syllabus that FA coaches (who work with kids and older players) have to work through in order to get their qualifications appals me. It seems designed around a set approach of "make sure that our team's defence is 100% tight and then, and only then, try to find ways to attack". With such an approach, it's hardly surprising that players in this country learn to put defending ahead of attacking.
When I was running schoolboy teams, we won many championships (at local, county and regional level) based upon my own approach of "I couldn't care less if we let in 10 goals every single match - as long as we always score at least 11". It would have been pointless for me to seek a formal FA coaching award though because such an approach simply wasn't acceptable to the 'powers that be' in English football. However it's the approach that many South American sides (among others) tend to adopt, resulting in the matches they play in being far more entertaining to watch.