Cost of living measures and skyrocketing participation rates have proven a huge barrier, but a European football-driven academy in Brisbane hopes to change that.
Internationally recognised football coach and player agent Raymond Wood says Australia can win a World Cup in the next two decades – but the game’s structure must be dramatically overhauled first.
Wood says Australian clubs’ ability to determine how prospects are mentored has been largely taken out of their hands – in direct contrast to his experiences in the Premier League. Between 1992 and 2006, he said, 57 male footballers played in the Premier League. Since then, there have been only seven.
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