Fabio Capello will be unveiled as England coach on Monday, when he will reveal his vision for the team and his hope to reinstall their "grit".The 61-year-old Italian will be present at a media conference in London this afternoon after his appointment was confirmed on Friday and he will be expected to address concerns over the level of English representation among his assistants.
He 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.
"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 today, 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."
Discussions are ongoing to have some homegrown presence in the England coaching ranks, with under-21 boss Stuart Pearce a leading candidate as well as former captain Alan Shearer and Watford's highly-rated manager Adrian Boothroyd.
Brooking hopes to ensure the formal part of the coaching arrangements will be in place ahead of Capello's first match, a friendly with Euro 2008 joint-hosts Switzerland at Wembley early next year.
"We are going to try to discuss to have an arrangement in place for early February," he told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme.
"Let's see what is going to be best for the English coaching structure and Fabio has been very relaxed and very open."
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