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Futbol Americas: The USMNT Get Their Guy

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 390 of Futbol Americas, Alexis and Herc are joined by Jeff Carlisle to react to reports that former Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has been named the new head coach of the US men's national team. Then, a breakdown of US players abroad potentially returning to the MLS. Plus, Herc sits down with San Diego Football Club's new sporting director, Tyler Heaps, to discuss the club's MLS future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Aorizio Pochetino as a candidate for U.S. men's national team manager.

0:05.0

Your thoughts.

0:06.0

Takes a lot of boxes.

0:08.0

Matt Crocker promised a big name.

0:10.0

There is a big name. If you can deal with the egos of the likes of Neymar, Kilainen-Bape,

0:14.3

Leonel Massey, then certainly you can deal with the egos of the

0:17.5

Tyler Adams Christian ballistics of the world.

0:20.3

To me this is the best candidate by far.

0:23.0

The U.S. soccer is going out there and they're willing to spend, I don't know, maybe $10 million

0:26.0

is what it would take to bring this guy in.

0:28.0

That's pretty ambitious.

0:29.0

What about the experience he doesn't have?

0:30.0

He's never coached a national team.

0:32.0

He can talk about how good he is at developing a team identity

0:35.4

in a club situation.

0:36.4

That's not the same setting with the national team.

0:38.8

Can he do it without the big name?

0:40.8

I'm willing to sacrifice the international experience for the quality

0:44.6

coach that I think you would be getting. They need to be taken from the level

0:48.0

they're at to another level and he's the guy to do that. All right is football. All right is football.

1:05.0

America!

1:07.0

There we go.

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