FA deserves a pat on the back for England's progress under Southgate | David Conn | Soccer

O One of the first dates in the newspaper of the Football Association's management team after their unexpected and encouraging World Cup campaign, is with the parliamentary committee that stigmatized the English government over the years.

Conservative MP Damian Collins, who led a mistrust of FA only last year – in which only 17 MPs participated – called them to account for the sale. proposed Wembley Stadium. But the mood in the room should be different this time from the usual ritual excoriation.

The FA has been criticized relentlessly, often justifiably, for failing to govern the national game vigorously and curb the excesses of the Premier League. ] But the FA has the right to credit where it is due for the advances of England in Russia and the foundations, including Gareth Southgate's own development, have long been in planning and construction

-final was deposited at the National Football Center of 105 million pounds at St George's Park, the concrete investment in English football of the billions of pounds that pbad through it.

The shortcomings exposed by the semifinal defeat against Croatia still show the ruthless participation and local facilities underfunded by the conservative Collins government, and for the Premier League clubs to give more money. First Team Opportunities A former FA executive told the Observer that the World Cup experience only reaffirmed his willingness to sell Wembley to the owner of the FA. Fulham team and Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL, Shahid Khan, and invest the 600 million pounds go in basic facilities.

"We desperately need to improve the playing conditions throughout the country," he said. "We hope that the progress of the England team, and the recognition of the work done there, will give more confidence that the FA as an organization can be trusted to manage the project correctly. "

The failure of the 2000 European Championships – repeated in the book by Raphael Honigstein Das Reboot – is hailed as an example for English football. But less known is that the FA has undertaken its own review, led by the technical director of the time, Sir Trevor Brooking, after the national team lost 4-1 to Germany at the last stage of the 2010 World Cup.

first role at the FA, as development manager of the elite players, working to foster better relations with the best players and the clubs that broadcast them, was himself the result of the review. Speaking to the Guardian in 2011, the England manager explained that a longer term plan was being developed to make the England teams more trustful only when he was a player. "We definitely realized that we were inferior," he said of his time as an international actor.

"Everyone realizes that we can not keep playing as we did, we have to grow and change."

The renewed effort of the FA to improve footballers English dates back at least 21 years, to the quality charter of former technical director Howard Wilkinson. He called for a total and professional improvement of youth development in clubs. This is what happened, even though the modern academic system of clubs Elite Performance Performance (EPPP) clubs has been criticized for having recruited thousands of boys at seven or eight years old who do not have a club. will never have the opportunity to play elite football.

Wilkinson accused Premier League clubs last year of missing their "moral duty" to give opportunities to graduates of the academy and called for a review. He believes however that the performance of England illustrates the progress made since the years he insisted that the FA needed a national football center like that of Clairefontaine.

Wilkinson still believed that Wembley 's FA financing was an unfortunate political accident and that it was taking up too much time and money, leading to St George' s construction being dormant. Park in the 2000s. Asked last week when he was in agreement with Wembley's sales plan, Wilkinson responded in one word: "Absolutely".

It explains the importance of St George's Park, now a base for the 28 men's, women's and disabled teams of England. all age groups, their coaches and support staff, and coach development programs: "Our goal was to make education Oxford and Cambridge football. It's symbolic: you can not have a national development program for players and training and not have a home.

Brooking, Wilkinson 's successor between 2003 and 2014 when Dan Ashworth took over, is dedicated to trusting, learning from Spain and Germany. His national football strategies introduced children's play and coaching, which encouraged the goaltender to pbad through the defenders and the "thirds" of the field, a style the Southgate team was attempting to play. in Russia

. Brooking said, "So St George's Park was the base we needed, where all national teams came, where coaches worked together, learned, talked around the table. After the official opening of the center In 2012, under the leadership of Ashworth, Southgate, under-21 coach and other performance staff, developed common philosophy, style of play and preparation by publicly launching the British policy on DNA in December 2014.

to the sudden and dazzled admiration of a delusional nation were indeed well established. His mantra for players not to experience English glories as a weight but instead strive to "create their own story" is a component of the ethos of the English. DNA that has appeared on the FA site for years

. scientific approach to Olympic success, by recruiting some of the staff who had been involved. The Lane4 sport psychologists worked on their first pilot project with Mark Sampson's women's team in November 2014, and the value of psychology, directed since last November by Pippa Grange, became national during the tournament.

Yet the margins between glory The ignominy of the World Cup is, of course, painstaking: if Colombia had scored its last two penalties in a shootout, England would have been back in the 16 last, and Southgate's speech about DNA and his own story could have been ridiculed guff.

But the FA takes into account the current success of English teams; Last year, the U17 men and the U20 won their World Cups, the U19 European championship and the U21 and the senior women's team reached their semi-finals of the Championship of Europe

Brooking acknowledges that Premier League teams must increase the number of English players, but also recognizes that the major investment clubs in the EPPP has improved academic coaching. He points out that those who make him play with and against the best players in the world refine their skills and confidence. He hopes that the progress of England, and other improvements, will promote more opportunities.

"It would be extremely frustrating to have the best league in the world and not to develop young English players," Brooking said. "It took longer than we expected, but this World Cup should not be unique."

At the National Policy Center this time, perhaps Damian Collins and his fellow MPs may find themselves asking the FA for little guidance on the merits of careful planning and l '. attention to detail.