Craig Foster has called on the Australian government to get onboard with investing in football from a young age in Australia. <\/p>\n
Speaking on Nine\u2019s Today, Foz gave an impassioned plea to the Prime Minister to give further money and investment in the world\u2019s biggest sport after the Socceroos fantastic run. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe most important thing we can do right now is say to Anthony Albanese, we need a plan and we need some investment,\u201d he said on Nine\u2019s Today. <\/p>\n
\u201cListen, Albo, you\u2019ve been wearing your shirt this whole time with Matildas and with the Socceroos and that\u2019s great mate, you know we really love that and your support for the game. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut Australia needs more vision. We need vision in football. You\u2019ve seen how our Socceroos have brought this country together, it\u2019s unbelievable. It\u2019s like nothing else, and that\u2019s what the country needs. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t just need sporting success, we need success as a country to come together and feel pride. Let\u2019s do both, mate. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe need a plan to win the male and female World Cup…But we need to invest in the kids. Put it in the schools, let\u2019s have programs. We need Mbapp\u00e9s, we need Demb\u00e9l\u00e9s, we need Messis, mate. This is what we need. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good for football, it\u2019s great for Australian sport, but come on, this is the best thing you can possibly do for Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Foster has called on the Australian government to get onboard with investing in football from a young…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-779842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}