English question for Capello

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The 61-year-old Italian has already stressed, however, his first intention is to allow the team to re-discover their identity.

"Psychologically, they are a team that needs to find its confidence. I watched them play against Russia and they looked a very impersonal side when playing," said Capello. "It's a team that need to find itself and that will be my role."

He added: "The England national team seems to have lost the determination and grit that they had in the past.

"We will have to create in a short time the right atmosphere and the right characteristics to get results.

"From Monday, I'll learn more English. The most important thing is to get to know the atmosphere. The most important thing is to be able to work and take this national team where it belongs.

"It would be the ultimate to win the World Cup and then retire."

Off the field Sir Trevor Brooking, the FA's director of football development, is particularly concerned about the long term and is keen the appointment of an English coach to Capello's otherwise all-Italian team should be more than a token gesture.

Brooking said: "We have to use this platform to suck out all the knowledge we can from Fabio for however long he is with us - but never get in the position again with our players and coaches where we have not got 100% belief that we have not got choices internally.

"I think it needs significant transformation investment from the governing body of the FA, because we are custodians for a long-term plan. That is a much-detailed and longer debate."