Sadly in Peru at the moment where I am, local football is banned due to Covid. Actually in Lima 11 aside football on grass is pretty rare (city of 10M people is basically a desert with annual rainfall less than 20mm!). It's really only reserved for the professional leagues, and top quality amateur/kids stuff. 5 aside futsal on concrete in your local barrio is far more common, so yeah taking the direct route is probably not so natural for them growing up.
Found Declan's comment that heading of the ball at Ole training or in games, is more or less banned. I'd never heard that before.