{"id":76180,"date":"2026-07-16T16:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/us-soccer-coy-on-mauricio-pochettino-and-future-of-sporting-director-position\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:55:33","slug":"us-soccer-coy-on-mauricio-pochettino-and-future-of-sporting-director-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/us-soccer-coy-on-mauricio-pochettino-and-future-of-sporting-director-position\/","title":{"rendered":"US Soccer coy on Mauricio Pochettino and future of sporting director position"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Batson says US federation will \u2018take a break\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Pochettino\u2019s future remains unresolved<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Sporting director role unfilled after Crocker exit<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US men\u2019s national team leaves the World Cup with some considerable gaps in their organizational chart. Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s future is undetermined as his contract \u2013 funded in part by billionaire donors \u2013 ends with the conclusion of this tournament. In April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/apr\/15\/matt-crocker-us-soccer-legacy-mauricio-pochettino-emma-hayes\">Matt Crocker resigned from his role<\/a> as sporting director to take a similar position with Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these crucial positions being open, there may not be resolutions for some time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/16\/us-soccer-pochettino-future-sporting-director-vacancy-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batson says US federation will \u2018take a break\u2019 Pochettino\u2019s future remains unresolved Sporting director role unfilled after Crocker exit The US men\u2019s national team leaves the World Cup with some considerable gaps in their organizational chart. Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s future is undetermined as his contract \u2013 funded in part by billionaire donors \u2013 ends with the &#8230; <a title=\"US Soccer coy on Mauricio Pochettino and future of sporting director position\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/us-soccer-coy-on-mauricio-pochettino-and-future-of-sporting-director-position\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Soccer coy on Mauricio Pochettino and future of sporting director position\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76180","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\/76180","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=76180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}