Mauricio Pochettino has emerged as a number one candidate to teach the U.S. males’s nationwide staff, a number of sources with information of the talks between the previous Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain and Tottenham supervisor and U.S. Soccer confirmed to FOX Sports activities on Thursday.
The Athletic’s Paul Tenorio was the primary to report the information.
Pochettino, a 52-year-old Argentine who has additionally coached English Premier League aspect Southampton and Espanyol in Spain, is on the market after parting methods with Chelsea following the 2023-24 season. A U.S. Soccer Federation spokesperson declined to remark.
Pochettino’s camp first met with U.S. Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker in Europe in mid-July, in line with a number of sources. He was one among quite a few high-profile coaches that the federation had preliminary conversations with both immediately or via intermediaries. Others embrace former Liverpool boss Jürgen Klopp, ex-England coach Gareth Southgate, and present Hoffenheim supervisor Pellegrino Matarazzo. Patrick Vieira, who not too long ago stepped down from his submit with Strasbourg in France’s Ligue 1, was additionally reportedly contacted. Vieira, who coached New York Metropolis FC from 2016-18, has since spoken to Atlanta United about their emptiness, per a number of sources.
On Sunday, after a number of German shops reported that Matarazzo had been supplied the job, a supply advised FOX Sports activities that the USSF hoped to finalize a cope with the New Jersey native as early as this week. Subsequent reviews indicated that Matarazzo had determined to stick with the Bundesliga membership as an alternative, which he later confirmed himself.
That apparently led Crocker again to Pochettino, who he briefly overlapped with whereas operating Southampton’s youth academy. Thought of the most effective managers on the planet, touchdown him can be a coup for the USMNT, which parted methods with Gregg Berhalter after the People turned the primary Copa América host to be eradicated within the group stage of that match.
Crocker mentioned on the time that the USSF was “ready to speculate” in a “serial profitable coach.”
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Crocker employed former Chelsea Girls’s coach Emma Hayes to steer the USWNT final fall, making her the very best paid coach in ladies’s soccer historical past. Pochettino was among the many highest-paid coaches within the males’s recreation throughout his spells at Chelsea and PSG, with a wage within the $15-20 million vary.
Pochettino led Tottenham to the 2019 Champions League remaining and gained league and cup titles throughout his two years in France. He took Chelsea from twelfth to sixth final season, his lone marketing campaign at Stamford Bridge.
Doug McIntyre is a soccer author for FOX Sports activities who has lined the United States males’s and ladies’s nationwide groups at FIFA World Cups on 5 continents. Observe him at @ByDougMcIntyre.
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