It is ambitious but achievable. We have 8,000 quality grass pitches already - we've added to that number over the last four years, and we want to get it to 12,000. We want to invest in 300 3G pitches. Again, we believe that's doable.
In the next year, we'll be investing 140 million into facilities, which is the biggest amount of money we've invested in single year, and this is through the Foundation in partnership very much with government, the Premier League and ourselves.
One of the five priority areas the strategy aims to identify is tackling poor behaviour, which former England defender Glen Johnson is a big advocate for. Johnson believes that increasing opportunity for young people to get involved in football is crucial.
With five priority areas laid out in the new strategy, the FA want to get 220,000 new people playing football, which includes a 50 per cent increase in the number of female players and a 40 per cent increase in Disability Football.
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