The USMNT’s quest for World Cup glory is currency in the attention economy | USA

It took Mauricio Pochettino a little while to understand that he had accepted an innately vibes-based job.

If club soccer boils down to managers exerting control and fitting their players into an intricate system, buttressed by cutting-edge tactics, ultra-modern analytics and first-in-class sports science, international soccer demands a different job entirely. And it tends to take long-time…