Pihak federasi tetap menaruh keyakinan tinggi bahwa mantan bek timnas Argentina tersebut mempunyai kepercayaan besar terhadap cetak biru sepak bola yang tengah dikembangkan di Amerika Serikat.
"We don't have a contract for the future but why not if we are happy and the federation is happy?"
ujar Pochettino menambahkan.
Mantan penjaga gawang timnas Amerika Serikat Brad Friedel turut menyampaikan analisisnya kepada GOAL mengenai situasi kepelatihan ini serta tantangan budaya sepak bola di AS dibanding cabang olahraga populer lainnya.
"I think he'll have offers anywhere in the world. He's a tremendous manager.
It really depends on what he wants to do and probably how successful the team is," tutur Friedel.
Friedel menaruh harapan agar Pochettino memilih bertahan lebih lama demi menopang pembangunan ekosistem serta mentalitas sepak bola di Amerika Serikat secara berkelanjutan.
"One interesting anecdote to this is that Matt Crocker, who was the sporting director at U. S.
Soccer, basically built this four-year cycle, then left for Saudi, another nation in the World Cup, but for the World Cup.
So I read that as two ways: like they're all leaving at the end, or that maybe they'll give more now that Mauricio has been on the ground for two-and-a-half years or whatever it is and he's started to understand the landscape of the culture of football around maybe a joint sporting director/head coaching role after and really help the U.
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S. Personally, I would love it if he stayed on.
Because the culture in the United States is the thing that's lacking, but it's the hardest thing to overcome," jelas Friedel panjang lebar.
Di tengah spekulasi kepindahan sang pelatih ke Serie A, para pemain timnas AS seperti Tyler Adams dan Tim Weah dilaporkan tetap fokus menjalani persiapan pertandingan uji coba mendatang melawan Senegal dan Jerman.
"Our stadiums are fantastic, training grounds are fantastic, coaching education is better, coaches are better.
You know, the sport is growing amongst the amateur levels at a huge pace, all that stuff. But it's still not the main sport in the U.
S. And until it's the main sport in the U.
S.
we will never have a golden generation because we're never going to get all the top athletes and, even more than athletes, the people that just want to die for the sport.
Until we have that, we just have to keep trying to build the sport as much as we can.
The argument people bring to me all the time, and even my friends that are pundits in the game that I played with, they're all saying: 'Yeah, but we should be much better with 350 million people'.
I say to them: 'No, if it were population-based, then India would be killing it. China would be killing it.
Pakistan would be killing it'.
There's only one, out of the top 10 most populous countries in the world, there's only one footballing nation in there, and that's Brazil.
And one of the reasons why they're the best is because they are a footballing nation, and they have 215 million people or whatever it is who are all crazy for football.
If the US were a footballing nation, a cultural footballing nation that had 350 million people, yes, we would be very dominant in tournaments.
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But we're not," pungkas Friedel menyudahi analisisnya mengenai kultur olahraga di negaranya.
