Brooking targets English boss

Sir Trevor Brooking has revealed that the Football Association is hoping the next England manager will be homegrown.

Italian coach Fabio Capello remains as England boss despite the country's poor showing at the 2010 World Cup.

Capello is the second foreign-born coach employed by the FA, after Swedish coach Sven-Goran Eriksson.

Brooking has already outlined plans to work alongside Capello in a bid to develop English coaches' skills.

And the FA's director of football development is hopeful said method will result in an English successor to Capello.

"I think longer term, after Fabio, we'd like to go English,"revealed Brooking.

"We want to create a spell where we appoint English coaches and Fabio can help us enormously to bridge that gap and help that transition.

"We've got a short-term priority of the qualifying games but over the next couple of years the National Football Centre will hopefully be built, and that's going to be the hub site for the future development of English coaches."

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