Roy Hodgson is confident the opening of St. George's Park can improve England's long-term chances of success at international level.

The aim of the £105m complex, which was officially opened by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Tuesday, is to produce higher quality coaches and players to boost the Three Lions' future potential.

France and Spain have invested in similar facilities at their respective bases in Clairefontaine and Madrid, which was key to their recent World Cup and European Championship triumphs.

But Hodgson was non-committal when asked if England could have emerged successful from a major tournament had a base been built sooner.

He said: "There's no way of knowing how much better one could have done with or without the facility.

"The fact it's overdue is because The Football Association have invested a similar amount of money in Wembley.

"I haven't been party to what's gone on there but I know that today, not only do we have a great national stadium we have a great national training centre.

"I don't know if we could have done better. Facilities in themselves don't make you a better football team.

"What makes you a better football team is the work that you do within that facility so here we have the chance.

"Players will be really happy to come here and work here. I think we have to forget the past, we can't win a World Cup yesterday.

"We would like to have done it since 1966 but we haven't done so.

"So I think the sooner we start looking forward where we can, I'm rather hoping that the work that will go on here and the amount of effort we'll put in here to help produce better players and coaches will lead us one day to that World Cup victory."

Watch video of the press conference in the Media Gallery above.