Pochettino will bring stardust to the USMNT but appointment is still a risk | Tom Dart
by Tom Dart from US news | The Guardian on (#6QNDG)
US Soccer are jumping into the unknown by appointing a great club-level coach who has no international experience
A stodgy homegrown coach dismissed after a long tenure turned stale, replaced with an alluring foreign star who made his name among the elite of Europe? We've been here before.
The appointment of Mauricio Pochettino as the new US men's head coach is exciting, bold and appears close to a best-case scenario given the middling status of the USMNT in world football and the shiny resume of a tactician who's successfully managed in the English Premier League, La Liga and Ligue 1.
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