It is not PlayStation for dads: FA's grass-roots plan for richer England future
Educating parents, scrapping league tables and smaller sided games are part of revolution to improve juniors
While Jack Wilshere has spent the season working towards what is expected to be his competitive international debut at Cardiff tomorrow, Nick Levett has been pounding the nation's motorways, continuing the Football Association's efforts to ensure that, in a dozen years' time, players like the precocious Arsenal midfielder will be the norm, not the exception.
Levett is the FA's national development manager for youth football and mini-soccer. It is a big title, for a big job. He is currently touring the country seeking to win "hearts and minds" for a revolution in grass-roots youth football which, the FA hopes, will end in a long-overdue English World Cup triumph.
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