Mauricio Pochettino Takes Over US Men's Soccer Team

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00:00Respectfully here, let's switch to your soccer hire for the U.S. men's national team.

00:09Yay or nay on this deal?

00:11Oh, I'm all in on this. I think it was a great choice.

00:15Pochettino, Mauricio Pochettino, there are some people in the...

00:20There's always got to be somebody that's negative, right, Scott? I mean, there has to be.

00:24There are some people who are trying to push back at him, saying he hasn't won that much.

00:28Look, he went into a... Basically, he took over what was a high-mid-major program,

00:33is how we would define it, if Tottenham, Hotspur, or an American college,

00:38they would be a high-mid-major program, maybe a low-high-major program, somewhere in there.

00:45They had made the Champions League one time in the 30 years prior to Mauricio Pochettino arriving.

00:52One year into his tenure, he starts a run of four consecutive Champions League performances.

00:57And 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.

01:02So you have to pass up Manchester United or Chelsea or somebody to be one of the top four,

01:08and he did it four years in a row, and he made the final in 2019, beating Manchester City along the way.

01:14He is a terrific coach. They're going to do very well under him.

01:18It's just how good are the players? They're better than we've had as a group,

01:22but now they're going to have to be pushed to be really competitive.

01:26There's been too much cruising in that team. When they get to camp, now they have to really put the pedal down.