{"id":81328,"date":"2026-11-14T09:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T14:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/mauricio-pochettino-asked-the-us-to-believe-in-his-project-did-he-believe-in-it-himself\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T14:56:15","slug":"mauricio-pochettino-asked-the-us-to-believe-in-his-project-did-he-believe-in-it-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/mauricio-pochettino-asked-the-us-to-believe-in-his-project-did-he-believe-in-it-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauricio Pochettino asked the US to believe in his project. Did he believe in it himself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coach\u2019s tenure with the USMNT brought a whiplash of highs and lows. He met some goals but also left many with the impression he never truly bought in<\/p>\n<p>It did not take US men\u2019s national team coach Mauricio Pochettino very long to take his first big swing.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d just taken the reins of the program after a disastrous performance at the 2024 Copa Am\u00e9rica cost his predecessor his job, with the first home World Cup in three decades looming on the horizon. The federation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/oct\/13\/mauricio-pochettino-usmnt-debut-soccer-panama\">introduced<\/a> him in New York City, on the 24th floor of a building overlooking the Hudson River. In short order, he was asked about the culture surrounding the program. In his answer, he invoked the four-time World Cup champion US women.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/nov\/14\/mauricio-pochettino-usmnt-legacy-belief\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coach\u2019s tenure with the USMNT brought a whiplash of highs and lows. He met some goals but also left many with the impression he never truly bought in It did not take US men\u2019s national team coach Mauricio Pochettino very long to take his first big swing. He\u2019d just taken the reins of the &#8230; <a title=\"Mauricio Pochettino asked the US to believe in his project. Did he believe in it himself?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/mauricio-pochettino-asked-the-us-to-believe-in-his-project-did-he-believe-in-it-himself\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mauricio Pochettino asked the US to believe in his project. Did he believe in it himself?\">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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81328","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=81328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}