LONDON (AP) β English soccer leaders are drawing inspiration from former U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to send a man to the moon as the country tries to end its World Cup title drought.
Martin Glenn, a former food company executive, started work as FA chief executive this week, with winning the 2022 World Cup a “majority priority.”
Glenn says “when John F. Kennedy said he wanted to put a man on the moon by 1970, everyone thought he was bonkers. But he put NASA in place and gave them funding … and they did it by the end of the decade.”
For that reason, Glenn says it’s “not a pie-in-the-sky hope” for England to win the 2022 World Cup.
