England ‘expected to reach World Cup semi-finals’
By Chris M
7th May, 2008
As part of the FA’s four-year strategic vision, Fabio Capello is expected to lead England to at least the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup or Euro 2012. Despite England not even qualifying for Euro 2008, the Italian doesn’t think he will come under any more pressure.
"We must be positive and my personal objective in every team I have coached was to go to the top," he said.
"I am not under any pressure. It's no problem for me and it's no surprise these targets have been set. I believe that it's important to have these targets and to work towards them.
"We should all be confident of this because the team I have at the moment is capable of reaching these objectives."
England are ¼ to qualify for the 2010 World Cup with Bet 365, 11/4 not to.
Capello also backed the plans to develop a National Football Centre (NFC), to be based in Burton by 2010.
"It is important to have a centre, to have a home - a place where we can go back and be together, spend time together, feel the spirit of the shirt we are wearing, regroup and achieve the targets that we want to achieve.
"As we all know there is only 38% of players who are English in the Premier League.
"But having said that there are lot of young players in the under-21 level and younger that are very good so there is plenty of talent," he added.
