Mauricio Pochettino said the US can win the World Cup. Now they can’t even win a game

The Americans have now lost four matches in a row, and the World Cup is one year away. Serious questions are starting to emerge about their high-profile coach

If you're wondering why there seems to be so much hand-wringing over the US men's national team's current form, consider where head coach Mauricio Pochettino set the bar when he took over.

We need to really believe and think of big things," he said in his introductory press conference in September. We need to believe that we can win, that we can win all [the] games. We can win the World Cup."