LIVE: Icon's challenge to Albo after Socceroos epic

Craig Foster has implored Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to motorboat a "national agenda" connected the backmost of the Socceroos' unthinkable FIFA World Cup campaign.

The erstwhile nationalist skipper insists Australian shot indispensable capitalise connected the momentum generated by the squad successful Qatar, where the Socceroos secured 2 wins astatine a World Cup for the archetypal clip and reached the circular of 16 for the archetypal clip since 2006.

The Socceroos past gave Lionel Messi's Argentina a mega daze successful a 2-1 nonaccomplishment connected Sunday greeting (AEDT), successful which 18-year-old Garang Kuol had a scoring accidental successful the last minute.

Foster was asked however Australia should spell astir taking advantage of the superb World Cup run connected 2GB's Wide World of Sports radio.

"I deliberation by asking Australia the question, and this starts with government, it starts with premiers ... we saw unrecorded sites successful each of the states. So each of the authorities governments, the territories and Albo and each MP saw what the crippled did for Australia by bringing america each unneurotic successful each our multicultural quality ... by asking everyone a question, and peculiarly the governments ... that is: bash you privation to yet triumph these tournaments?" Foster said.

"(We're) statistically precise adjacent to the astir palmy and top sporting federation connected earth. There's a beardown statement that we are.

"This is the beatified grail for us. This is the past large sporting situation for a large sporting nation.

"Now, bash we privation to triumph them oregon not?

"And if we privation to triumph these things past we request a nationalist agenda. We request arsenic a state to say, 'We privation to spell triumph these things successful the aforesaid mode we've decided successful the past that we deliberation Olympic medals are important'. Well, these World Cups — this is the beatified grail of planetary sport, truthful a nationalist docket is the start. So I'd beryllium saying to Albo, 'Listen, mate. Let's marque a connection here. Let's marque a program for let's accidental 20-30 years' time'. That's what it's going to take."

The adjacent variation of the World Cup, to beryllium held successful 2026, volition instrumentality spot successful the USA, Mexico and Canada.

It remains uncertain if Arnold volition pb the Socceroos successful the 2026 World Cup due to the fact that he's yet to beryllium offered a caller contract, but skipper Mat Ryan has led calls for the loveable mentor to beryllium rewarded with a caller deal.

"I'll archer you what: it's going to beryllium a hellhole of a travel successful that clip erstwhile we marque quarter-finals, semis and past a final," Foster added.

"Let's program to triumph this.

"And past we tin speech astir the applicable realities. Graham Arnold is talking astir a centre, a location of football. Of people that's important due to the fact that we request to innovate. We request to beryllium smarter than each state astir the world. That's precise casual to accidental and that's precise hard to do, but we request ingenuity, we request to beryllium amended with data, we request to analyse each young player, we request to look astatine our training, we request to bid a caller generation. There's a batch of worldly we request to do.

"But the happening is we conscionable request to determine arsenic a state and inquire that question: 'Do we privation to triumph these things?'.

"The crippled has done a fabulous occupation successful galore respects ... fundamentally connected its ain successful what's a precise packed market.

"But present we're competing against countries who arsenic a federation are saying, 'This is important to us'. Germany are saying, 'We privation to triumph these for our country'.

"And truthful erstwhile Australia decides that's the case, past I deliberation we're going to instrumentality a large measurement forward."