How Pochettino convinced USA they can win the World Cup - The Sports Agents
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What did Scotland's loss to Brazil reveal about World Cup qualification?
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Everybody needs to know about Mauricio Pochettino. He very much believes in the universe. This is the first ever Spanish-speaking South American immigrant that's taken over this team. It's not the strategy, it's not the tactics, it is the belief.
Kurt Russell could probably play Pochettino as well, actually.
Wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crisps, but he is a handsome old man now. You know, for me, as a sport, it's bigger than the money, you know. The thing is with wildcards, it's no one deserves it, no one doesn't deserve it. And Serena, what she's done for the sport has obviously been incredible. But that's another case of headlines, I think.
The U.S. player is a little bit more insecure than the settled Argentinian player and the settled Brazilian player.
This is a United States men's national team truly believes we can go all the way.
Hello, Mark.
Welcome to the sports agents, Gabby, isn't it, first?
Yeah, I'm just excited to see you. You're actually at the World Cup. So I'm thrilled for you.
I am. I am. I have a week in America at the moment. So I've been to one game. I went to the England game against Ghana, which is probably the worst game of the tournament so far. I'm going to Germany, Ecuador later, which is here in, well, New Jersey, MetLife, which is huge for Scotland.
Today's show, we are going to be focusing a little bit on underdogs, aren't we? Because I think we can probably add Scotland into this mix. We'll get into what they have got to hope everybody else does to stay in this World Cup. We're going to be talking to Marcus Willis, who had his moment on Centre Court in 2016 with Roger Federer after he was a wildcard entry. But what it takes for those wildcards who are this week trying to qualify for Wimbledon at Roehampton. and get into the main draw. And we're going to talk to him. We're also talking about Poch and the US men's team's belief that they can go all the way to the final, which would be a movie in years to come if they could get themselves there.
And it is based actually, this belief or this narrative is based on what happened to the US men's Olympic ice hockey team back in 1980, which did become a movie with Kurt Russell because they were the underdogs, massive underdogs against the Soviet Union.
Kurt Russell could probably play Pochettino as well, actually, with the sort of... Maybe back then, but have you seen him lately? No, I haven't seen him lately.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crisps, but he is... He is a handsome older man now, I feel. Whereas Poch is still, I think, you know, in his early 50s, isn't he? I think he wants maybe somebody more, I don't know, who are we going to go for? Russell... No, not Russell Crowe.
Well, actually, maybe, yes, maybe Russell Crowe.
Because he's... I'm loving his, we did discuss this earlier.
I know, Wayne's obsessed.
How is Mauricio Pochettino inspiring belief in the USMNT?
Yeah, his sartorial kind of presence in this World Cup has elevated him, I think, beyond other coaches.
It's the flowing locks, though, as well, isn't it? He's not used to that. He's not used to that. He's done very well.
Wayne's getting quite a lot of attention, by the way, for his kind of more, what shall we call it, considered... Clothing appearance? I mean, I don't know how to say it.
I believe they say fresh. He's looking fresh, isn't he?
Of course, you were all over the Scotland-Brazil game last night, I imagine. My husband and son are there. I haven't heard from them since lunchtime yesterday. Have you not? No. The family WhatsApp group suddenly went quiet, which can only mean for me that they were having a great time, I hope. LAUGHTER yes they're drowning their sorrows i would imagine in miami yeah it is it is obviously not uh where we want to be for scotland right now because they have left themselves with this horrible few days where they are in limbo waiting for results to come in from other teams and hoping that lots of countries around the world can do them a favor
Yeah, and virtually everything I read, every website and stats-based company that offers percentages has it somewhere between 45 and 55, really, of them getting through.
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