St George's Park gets royal opening

[KingFemzee]

England's national football centre at St George's Park was finally officially opened on Tuesday by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

The £105 million complex, near Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, will serve as a centre of excellence for all English football at all levels.

All 24 men's and women's national teams across all age groups will be based at the centre, the idea for which was originally conceived more than 30 years ago.

Although the men's senior team began training there on Monday ahead of Friday's 2014 World Cup qualifier against San Marino at Wembley, the centre was only officially opened on Tuesday by Prince William, the president of the FA, and his wife Kate.

It is hoped that the centre will one day yield similar results to the Clairefontaine centre in France, which was opened in 1988 and ushered through the generation of players which won Les Bleus the World Cup a decade later.

[Folami David]

They really spent on that building.
It is quite expensive.
Something that can't happen in Nigeria

[Tina lawrence]

At last.
I had waited for the opening for a very long time