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Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard

The Mauricio Pochettino Interview

03 Jun 2025

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Mauricio Pochettino is getting unfiltered! On a very special episode of Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard, our hosts are joined by U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Mauricio Pochettino. The three discuss the manager’s philosophy for the national team, how he felt after the Nations’ League competition in March, and his views on USMNT’s number 10, Christian Pulisic, withdrawing himself from the upcoming Gold Cup tournament. The three also discuss what U.S. Soccer is building on the way to the World Cup in 2026 and he even answers questions about some of his favorite players and rivalries in global soccer.  New episodes of Unfiltered Soccer with Landon and Tim drop every Tuesday. Subscribe to the show on YouTube and follow on all your favorite podcast platforms. For bonus content and to send your mailbag questions in to the show, follow on all social media platforms @UnfilteredSoccer. (https://www.unfilteredsoccer.com).    Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard is presented by Volkswagen. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4g8bZG3.   Thank you to our additional sponsors:  AT&T. Connecting Changes Everything. Visit https://att.com/guarantee to learn more.  Coors Light. Choose Chill. Get Coors Light delivered. Go to CoorsLight.com/USLNT  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0.589 - 19.243 Landon Donovan

Welcome into another episode of Unfiltered Soccer. A special one because you might be wondering what in the heck we're doing sitting next to each other on a fancy couch here in Chicago. But we have the really amazing honor of interviewing US Men's National Team head coach, Rachel Pochettino.

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19.523 - 33.068 Landon Donovan

We're super excited for this internally, but we know you as our listeners and the fans are beyond excited to hear what he has to say. So it's going to be aces. We're excited for it and really looking forward to having him join us in the room.

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33.407 - 56.663 Tim Howard

We'll be there in one minute. As always, guys, follow us at Unfiltered Soccer on all the social media. Follow on Apple, podcast, Spotify, anywhere you get your podcast. Subscribe, like on YouTube. As always, you can email us at unfilteredfeedback at unfilteredsoccer.com. And without further ado. Unfiltered Soccer with Landon and Tim presented by Volkswagen.

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58.89 - 81.945 Landon Donovan

Well, we are delighted to have with us in this country, the top of the top, the king of U.S. soccer, which is Mauricio Pochettino. So great to see you again. Always enjoy spending time with you in the past and talking football. Our audience, unfiltered soccer audience, is so hungry to hear from you. They just can't, they cannot wait and neither can we. So thank you for being here.

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82.305 - 96.742 Mauricio Pochettino

Thank you so much for me. I think it's a great honor to be with you. Two legends. Thank you. Amazing. And I think it's a fantastic opportunity to talk about football. And always it's a pleasure to talk with you both.

97.142 - 115.79 Tim Howard

Good. So you've had some time now with the team, a few different camps, a long January camp, some shorter camps. So our first question is because we're kind of old and get cynical and grumpy sometimes, but what can fans be excited about in the next year leading up to the World Cup?

115.81 - 122.153 Tim Howard

And we're going to get into some of the harder questions and what's going on, but how can we be excited about this team as we move forward?

122.54 - 143.128 Mauricio Pochettino

Well, I think the first is the federation and all the staff and the people that is involved in PREPARE. I've been the host of the World Cup in Guarneri and I think we tried to translate that passion and the excitement about to to be part and to be involved, you know, in the World Cup in one year.

143.528 - 165.57 Mauricio Pochettino

And then all the people also that is helping us around, telling you like building the new training ground, too many people that is doing an amazing effort, you know, in an economic but also in time. to help in the Federation to create something, some legacy for the future, not only for now, for the present, if not for the future.

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