America has a grand tradition of national planning, from Thomas Jefferson's vision for roads and canals in 1808, which influenced policy for the next century (and led to America's first transcontinental railway) to Dwight Eisenhower's Federal Highway-Aid Act of 1956, which created the interstate system.
Its Gene Hackman look-alike coach, Luiz Felipe Scolari , in the finest tradition of winning coaches, is already planning to cash in with a book on tactics and leadership.