{"id":74043,"date":"2026-05-26T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/missing-a-world-cup-over-email-pochettino-defends-communication-style-with-tough-decisions-behind-him\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:06:11","slug":"missing-a-world-cup-over-email-pochettino-defends-communication-style-with-tough-decisions-behind-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/missing-a-world-cup-over-email-pochettino-defends-communication-style-with-tough-decisions-behind-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing a World Cup, over email? Pochettino defends communication style with tough decisions behind him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US head coach said there was no point in speaking to players directly, but some former US World Cup cuts disagree<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/gallery\/2026\/may\/26\/usmnt-world-cup-squad-in-pictures\"><strong>The USMNT\u2019s 2026 World Cup  squad \u2013 in pictures<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Tuesday afternoon, at the tail end of a picture-perfect New York City day, US Soccer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/26\/usmnt-world-cup-roster-2026\">unveiled the 26 players<\/a> who will represent the United States at the 2026 World Cup. With the Brooklyn Bridge as the backdrop, the federation rolled out players one by one, marching them through a pair of doorways flanked by steam cannon.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody in attendance was terribly surprised at the players that populated the stage; the 26-man roster had already been widely circulated thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/23\/usmnt-world-cup-roster-alejandro-zendejas-tanner-tessmann-gio-reyna-diego-luna\">reports in the Guardian<\/a> and the Athletic in the days leading up to the announcement. Late last week, the 55 players on Pochettino\u2019s provisional roster received word of their status from USMNT head coach Mauricio Pochettino, with the 26 final selections receiving a video message from Pochettino himself. Quickly and somewhat predictably, news of those selections began to trickle out, and within 24 hours, the entire roster had been revealed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/26\/usmnt-world-cup-squad-mauricio-pochettino-email-players\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US head coach said there was no point in speaking to players directly, but some former US World Cup cuts disagree The USMNT\u2019s 2026 World Cup squad \u2013 in pictures On Tuesday afternoon, at the tail end of a picture-perfect New York City day, US Soccer unveiled the 26 players who will represent the &#8230; <a title=\"Missing a World Cup, over email? Pochettino defends communication style with tough decisions behind him\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/missing-a-world-cup-over-email-pochettino-defends-communication-style-with-tough-decisions-behind-him\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Missing a World Cup, over email? Pochettino defends communication style with tough decisions behind him\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}