Mauricio Pochettino

Because I was in the school, in the farm school there, but the Newell's Old Boys, they wanted me one or twice a week training.

I was 13, 13 year old.

Wow.

Yes.

That's quite a... No, that is why...

Of course.

My football hero is Maradona, but my parents are my heroes.

Without them, impossible to be here today.

Well, it was part of the, you know, the strategy to... Yes, to let them see.

No, I was...

I think it was special because when I took Southampton, when I explained what is going on there, no one can believe me.

I come to London and we met.

And when I met, Nicolas said to me,

It's better if you don't speak English, we speak in Spanish, and I put a guy that can translate you, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Okay, and he explained, oh, my, he said, Nicola, no?

He said, my philosophy or my dream is that we need to play like that team, and it was Barcelona.

and put no Barcelona play in there.

And I said, yeah, but we need Messi, Xavi, Iniesta.

Okay, you are ready to buy this player.

And I said, yeah, yeah, but that is the philosophy that I like in football.