Destination New Jersey: Pressure on Pochettino, Argentine coaches & DR Congo on top
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman and Rory Smith continue the countdown to the 2026 World Cup. Nico Cantor of CBS Sports joins to gauge the mood in America as pressure mounts on Mauricio Pochettino.
South American football expert Tim Vickery gives the lowdown on Marcelo Bielsa’s Uruguay, as well as the other South American nations vying for a place at the World Cup.
Also hear from Indonesian football expert Andy Fuller, and former DR Congo international Gabriel Zakuani.
Timecodes: 00:25 Pressure on Pochettino & USMNT 12:40 Argentine coaches at the WC 16:05 “Unmissable” CONMEBOL qualification 20:25 Marcelo Bielsa’s Uruguay 26:30 Football in Indonesia 33:10 DR Congo top CAF Group
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| 0:00.0 | Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy. |
| 0:05.1 | My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC. |
| 0:08.7 | It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, |
| 0:13.5 | moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous. |
| 0:19.1 | And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music |
| 0:21.7 | means we can tell those stories like no one else. |
| 0:24.5 | We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative. |
| 0:28.6 | So whether you want an insightful take on music right now |
| 0:31.3 | or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music, |
| 0:36.1 | check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:40.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:44.7 | The Football Daily Podcast with Mark Chapman. |
| 0:52.3 | Hello, welcome to the Football Daily for the second instalment of Destination, New Jersey, |
| 0:57.3 | as we continue our countdown to the 2026 World Cup. |
| 1:01.3 | Coming up, Tim Vickery, we'll run us through how the South American teams are getting on. |
| 1:05.2 | We'll talk Indonesia and D.R. Congo, but we'll start with the host nation. |
| 1:09.6 | Rory Smith is with us and Nico Cantor of CBS Sports. |
| 1:13.6 | Nico pressure really mounting on Maurizio Pochitino after a 4-0 loss to Switzerland. |
| 1:19.3 | Yeah, it was pretty poor. It was embarrassing as well. I'll let you guys know a little bit of how |
| 1:24.9 | we started the show. In the production meeting, we were going through the running order of our show, |
| 1:29.7 | and I started doing a little bit of arts and crafts, |
| 1:32.3 | and I cut out on a piece of paper the letters P-A-N-I-C, |
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