LIVE: Great calls for 'massive' football overhaul

After getting pumped 4-1 by France successful their World Cup opener, an Australian shot large has called for administrators to overhaul the inferior academy system.

When France failed to suffice for the 1990 World Cup, the French Football Federation went distant and overhauled their inferior programs.

Although they failed to suffice again successful 1994, they had automatic qualification arsenic hosts successful 1998, and they went each the way.

They had conscionable 1 extremity scored against them each tournament, and defeated Brazil 3-0 successful the last to triumph their archetypal World Cup.

While they've had up-and-down occurrence astatine consequent World Cups - including a daze elimination successful the radical stages arsenic defending champions astatine the 2002 World Cup successful South Korea - they won again past clip retired successful Russia.

Heading into Qatar, galore pundits believed this to beryllium 1 of the weakest Socceroos sides we've ever sent to a World Cup.

Mark Bosnich said France's occurrence tin beryllium traced each the mode backmost to that overhaul aft the 1994 failure, and Wednesday morning's (AEDT) drubbing exposed Australia.

"The biggest question determination is, you're seeing the effect of radical successful France mode backmost erstwhile they missed retired successful 1990 and they sat down and enactment unneurotic a monolithic plan," helium said.

"You are seeing the results of that now, and you spot the quality successful the people and the quality.

"That's the biggest question here. What is Australian shot going to bash successful the aboriginal to spot our players beryllium similar that 1 day?

"Five World Cup appearances is each good and good, but what? But what? One (round of 16) successful implicit 100 years. 

"So what are you going to bash astir that? That's the biggest question."