Capello calm about FA targets

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The targets have been laid down as part of the FA's four-year strategic vision that was unveiled at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday and includes plans to appoint an international performance director, and to have the National Football Centre (NFC) at Burton up and running by 2010.

Capello said: "I think we must always be positive and my personal objective in every team I have coached was to go to the top. 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."

He added: "We should all be confident of this because the team I have at the moment is capable of reaching these objectives."

The FA's strategic vision also includes winning the bid for the 2018 World Cup and Wembley Stadium making a profit by 2012.

Capello was among a group of FA figures including chairman Lord Triesman, chief executive Brian Barwick and director of football development Sir Trevor Brooking who identified the need for a performance director.

The international performance director will not be Capello's boss, but will be charged to bring the best practices from other countries and other sports to all the England sides.

Triesman said: "You look around the world at other countries who have done well tournament after tournament, such as Brazil, Italy and Germany and we need to make sure we learn everything they are doing.

"It is an additional resource particularly for Fabio and his team."