Futbol Americas: Injury Woes for the Host Nations + Pochettino Non-Committal + Noahkai Banks Switching Up? + Neymar Speaks About His Fitness + CONCACAF Champions Cup Recap + Run It Back + Drippin Or Trippin

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Cristina Alexander, Herc Gomez, and Shaka Hislop start this edition of Futbol Americas by discussing the sudden wave of injuries that have hit the host nations for the 2026 World Cup. Then they react to Mauricio Pochettino's most recent comments, where he doesn't exactly shut the door to leaving the USMNT head coaching job after the World Cup this summer. Next, Noahkai Banks is noncommittal about his future with the USMNT. Neymar hits out at the critics and gossip concerning his injury history. The show closes out with a quick CONCACAF Champions Cup recap, followed by Run It Back and Drippin or Trippin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, happy Thursday to you all.
0:10.0	Welcome to Football America, Shaka his love.
0:13.1	Hercules Gomez.
0:14.4	Coming in in style, as always heard, but more for this week.
0:17.4	That's right.
0:18.3	It's, what is it?
0:19.1	Start of the season, right?
0:20.0	Yeah. NWSO, you're going to be there? I am going to be there. Boston. Boston Legacy FC? That's what it was. Yes. I was, who! I got you. So glad I didn't say what I got you. I got you. Thank you. Awesome Legacy FC versus Gotham FC, 1230 p.m. Eastern on ABC. But I digress. Let's get into what we're going to break down here
0:39.8	on Football Americas with business casual of course. Coming up, Mauricio Pachino and his comments on
0:47.6	rumors outside of the U.S. men's national team. Also, Noah Kai banks in his U.S. men's national
0:53.5	team a future. A lot of future. We need a magic
0:56.4	eight ball, especially when it comes to these players that we're going to talk about and some
1:00.8	injury updates. It's been a rough week for pretty much all of the World Cup hosts. But let's start
1:06.6	with probably the worst one when it comes to the injury. Luis Angel Malagon will not be going to the World Cup
1:13.2	after tearing his Achilles in America's Concaccaf Champions Cup
1:16.7	win over the Philly Union Tuesday night.
1:19.0	America confirmed the injury and said, quote,
1:21.3	his recovery time will be determined by his progress.
1:24.6	And of course, after determining said injury
1:26.9	has to go through surgery on the other side, just heartbreaking.
1:31.0	They're so close to the World Cup. More bad news for the Mexican national team.
1:35.0	As concerns surround now, Marcel Ruiz, after suffering a knee injury in Toluca's three, two loss to San Diego last night, also in the Concacahame Champions Cup.
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