Mauricio Pochettino: ‘No one sees the USA as a contender – but why not?’ | World Cup 2026
By: Sid Lowe | Published: 2026-06-10 19:00:54 | Source: www.theguardian.com
This American dream begins in small-town Murphy, Santa Fe. That’s Santa Fe, Argentina, at a little club where the old folk played bochas, a kind of boules, and they had one of the few colour television sets. It was 1978, Mauricio Pochettino was six years old and he can see it perfectly, still feel the meaning of it all.
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