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Mauricio Pochettino’s US return is risky, expensive and probably unnecessary | Leander Schaerlaeckens

In giving the head coach another World Cup cycle, US Soccer is tempting fate for negligible benefit Mauricio Pochettino and US Soccer enjoyed their time together. Or, rather, they enshoyed it, as Pochettino would pronounce it in his thick Argentinian accent, which charmingly carries over when he speaks English. Continue reading...

Leander Schaerlaeckens · Mon, Aug 3, 2026, 9:48 AM
US news | The Guardian

Mauricio Pochettino’s US return is risky, expensive and probably unnecessary | Leander Schaerlaeckens

In giving the head coach another World Cup cycle, US Soccer is tempting fate for negligible benefit

Mauricio Pochettino and US Soccer enjoyed their time together.

Or, rather, they enshoyed it, as Pochettino would pronounce it in his thick Argentinian accent, which charmingly carries over when he speaks English.

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