Why are English players so technically inept?

The technical ability of players in foreign countries such as Spain, France and Germany is so apparent, yet is it solely down to the coaching?
"It takes 10 000 hours of quality practice to become elite" Malcolm Gladwell

I have repeated this to many a young player throughout my coaching life, breaking it down to tell a young player that if they start to play football at the age of 5, to gain 10 000 hours of practice, they will need 666 (an omen) hours a year, nearly 13 hours a week which is nearly two hours per day. How many young players play quality football 2 hours a day? Many do claim to, but standing opposite your friend and passing the ball back and forth is not quality. Playing football in school PE is far from quality, which will usually consist of lines upon lines of children bored waiting until it is their chance to shoot and then playing 15 a side games. Those that play for a local team will have it even worse, where coaches' egos come into play and it all becomes the long smash forward to the big lad to score.
What about those that get into an Academy, where the 'quality coaching' takes place. Do they get their 13 hours a week?
In Spain, a young player will have 4880 hours coaching at and Academy between the ages of 9 and 21. Players such as Xavi, Iniesta and David Villa would have enjoyed over 400 hours a year, in France they enjoy nearly 500 hours and Germany 480 hours. What do the English players get?? They get just over 300 hours.

Under the FA's Charter for Quality, a player in an English Academy is permitted 3 hours contact time per week with their club aged 9-11. Dennis Bergkamp has labelled these years the 'Golden Years of Learning' In England, when you are aged 12-16 you can train 5 hours per week, in Dennis' Holland, this is 10-12.

The Premier League will look to change this when they categorize clubs into four categories. The top clubs will have access to a larger pool of players and will be able to treble their contact time with the players. This must only be a good thing, but if you have ever spent any time in an Academy or witnessed the coaching that takes part, it may be best that the player plays on the street!

Barcelona will have up to 7 home grown players in their starting 11, Arsenal will be lucky to have only 2 in their starting 18. So, this tells a story in itself about the standard of the English player coming through. Is it Arsene Wengers fault that not enough English players are coming through the system? Not a chance, if they are good enough he will play them such has been the case with Gibbs and Wilshire, if they are not good enough, he will look to buy the player and nurture them.

The FA and the Premier League need to look at the amount of hours a young player is allowed inside an Academy or Centre of Excellence, but a club needs to also look at the standard of coaching they receive whilst they are there. Man Utd have over 120 players playing in the English game on any given Saturday that have come through their system, yet no club will follow the plans they have put in place. English people always try to be radical and the trend setters, they will learn a lot by copying the best.