The coach of United States, Mauricio Pochettinorecognizes his team’s failure in the Nations League’s finals of ConcaCaf But he trusted that they had enough time to the front for the team to get to the best condition in the 2026 World Cup.
“If we were in a state of condition now, of course I would tell you: ‘Houston, we have a problem’ (…). I think we have time and I prefer this to happen now than not for a year,” he said. Canada won this Sunday 2-1 in the United States in the match for the third position of the Concacaf Nations League, a very frustrating result for Pochettino in the first official contest as a coach of the Bars and Stars team.
“I think the attitude (of the team) is good. We are not lost because of the lack of behavior. The effort and promise are there,” Pochettino said. “I see the promise when the boys are playing Sunday afternoon in Europe, they are traveling 12-14 hours, they arrived in Los Angeles on Monday night, it was hard to sleep on Tuesday and Wednesday, and on Thursday to play. It was a competition that didn’t go well for us, but I didn’t put it as a reason,” he added.
Pochettino recommends playing with greater pride
The coach emphasized that they had to look for “how to improve as a group to have a similar” in performance “larger” and to play “with greater pride, in good sense, with more confidence.” “We assume, because we have it, a certain quality. But when competing, we can’t show that quality (…). Maybe it’s worth it to us. We assume we are better but when competing and showing that we will not succeed,” he argued.
In addition, the coach emphasized that his coaching staff and he “erected”, which is a “long” process and he has “no doubt” that they will find a way that the choice can pay to a good level. But, in any case, he could not avoid the need to be “self -critical” or the feeling of “frustration” after these two poor results. “We are all responsible,” he said when he taught to “be calm”, not to look for “guilty” and not fall into “pesimism” around the US choice.
“I want to send a message to fans: Don’t be pessimistic, don’t have a bad feeling. It can happen (…). I agree with you that we should understand why these results (…). But it’s about reaching the World Cup in the best condition,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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