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Mauricio Pochettino Takes Over US Men's Soccer Team
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9/18/2024
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00:00
Respectfully here, let's switch to your soccer hire for the U.S. men's national team.
00:09
Yay or nay on this deal?
00:11
Oh, I'm all in on this. I think it was a great choice.
00:15
Pochettino, Mauricio Pochettino, there are some people in the...
00:20
There's always got to be somebody that's negative, right, Scott? I mean, there has to be.
00:24
There are some people who are trying to push back at him, saying he hasn't won that much.
00:28
Look, he went into a... Basically, he took over what was a high-mid-major program,
00:33
is how we would define it, if Tottenham, Hotspur, or an American college,
00:38
they would be a high-mid-major program, maybe a low-high-major program, somewhere in there.
00:45
They had made the Champions League one time in the 30 years prior to Mauricio Pochettino arriving.
00:52
One year into his tenure, he starts a run of four consecutive Champions League performances.
00:57
And what you have to do in order to get in Champions League is you have to be one of the top four teams in the Premier League.
01:02
So you have to pass up Manchester United or Chelsea or somebody to be one of the top four,
01:08
and he did it four years in a row, and he made the final in 2019, beating Manchester City along the way.
01:14
He is a terrific coach. They're going to do very well under him.
01:18
It's just how good are the players? They're better than we've had as a group,
01:22
but now they're going to have to be pushed to be really competitive.
01:26
There's been too much cruising in that team. When they get to camp, now they have to really put the pedal down.
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