Mauricio Pochettino immediately identifies difference between being USA and Chelsea manager

Mauricio Pochettino was unveiled arsenic the caller USA caput manager connected Monday evening and was asked by Gary Neville however it compared to taking the hotseat astatine Chelsea and PSG

Gary Neville has caught up with Mauricio Pochettino, the recently appointed manager of the United States Men's National Team for a candid chat connected his caller podcast "It's Called Soccer" alongside Jamie Carragher.

During their sit-down, Pochettino shared his thoughts connected the lukewarm reception astatine his unveiling. He instantly spotted a quality compared to his erstwhile roles aft turning his backmost connected nine shot aft astir precocious managing Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.

"I deliberation it was truly positive, it was truthful nice. I consciousness a precise lukewarm welcome," helium said. "Yes, I deliberation [the property conference] was wholly antithetic than astatine my past fewer jobs."

Before taking the helm of the United States, the 51-year-old Pochettino had an eventful career, managing teams similar Espanyol, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Paris Saint-Germain, and Chelsea. His past stint was with Chelsea successful the 2023-24 season, wherever helium led a young but costly squad to decorativeness beardown with 5 consecutive league wins, securing sixth place.

Pochettino's tenure astatine Tottenham from 2014 to 2019 was marked by important achievements, including guiding the squad to its highest Premier League points full and its archetypal Champions League last appearance.

Taking complaint of the USA represents Pochettino's archetypal task into nationalist squad management, presenting unsocial challenges specified arsenic a antithetic schedule, nary transportation activities, constricted grooming opportunities, and the aggravated summertime vigor of America.

"It's similar your archetypal time successful the school," helium shared with Neville. "Because we [have] ne'er worked successful the nationalist team, I deliberation it's going to beryllium the astir difficult...You judge you are going to beryllium with the players a fewer days and past (wipes hands)."

Neville was afloat of praise for Pochettino's typically daring benignant of play and questioned however helium plans to instrumentality this with the United States.

"It volition beryllium a situation successful a tactical constituent of view, due to the fact that we request to accommodate and beryllium flexible with the characteristics we [have]," helium explained. "We are going to beryllium protagonists and erstwhile we don't person the shot we are going to property truthful high. And the effort is going to request to beryllium there."

Pochettino expressed his restitution that "we are going to person clip to hole for the World Cup," which volition beryllium hosted successful the United States successful 2026.

"I thought it was a cleanable acceptable for both," Carragher commented connected the "It's Called Soccer" podcast. "It mightiness beryllium 1 of those [new jobs] wherever you think, 'I benignant of privation to travel a small spot retired of the fire' a small bit."

Carragher added: "I lone spot him doing 2 years, to beryllium wholly honest. If those 2 years culminate successful World Cup progress, astir American fans volition beryllium satisfied."