Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
The Mauricio Pochettino Interview
Tue, 03 Jun 2025
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
Chapter 1: What makes this episode special?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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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Chapter 2: What is Pochettino's vision for the US Men's National Team?
I was like this. I played because of that. Not because of my quality.
It's been fun. It's going to be fun to watch him grow and see how he continues to do. Okay, I want to just a couple more and thank you for being so gracious with your time. We just want to do a couple of fun ones because we certainly American fans are still getting to know you. And so they want to know just your perspective on big picture global football.
So you were part of a lot of big rivalries and then you grew up in Argentina. So from your perspective, biggest rivalry of these three Spurs, Arsenal, Espanyol, Barcelona, Boca River. I think it's easy for you, huh?
No, the three were really tough. Because I grew up in Argentina, River Boca for me was massive.
I don't think American fans understand that game or that rivalry. I mean, Spurs-Arsenal, but that game is crazy.
Yeah, but that game is crazy. It's crazy. And then because they divide a country. yeah because in argentina happened that you are you have one team and then boca river you know that is the difference with another maybe country in argentina is like a is dividing me to do Divide the country and River and Boca. And then you have another club. That is an amazing thing, if you think about it.
You mean you'll be a fan of another club, but then you pick one of... You can be fans of, I don't know... Yes, exactly.
And then I support more River or I support Boca. It's like crazy because they are so big, these two.
For me, that's one of the best rivalries, Boca-River.
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