U.S. males’s nationwide soccer crew coach Mauricio Pochettino has revealed the query Donald Trump requested him concerning the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Talking on the “Stick To Soccer” podcast, the Argentine supervisor recalled an alternate with the president forward of the World Cup attract Washington, D.C., in December — when Trump was controversially awarded FIFA’s inaugural Peace Prize.
“Do you suppose, coach, that we are able to win?” he stated of the query that Trump requested him.
Pochettino stated he replied, “In fact.”
Watch the feedback from the 34-minute mark right here on YouTube.
When requested by podcast host Gary Neville, the previous Manchester United and England nationwide crew defender, if he really believes the U.S. can win the event, Pochettino requested: “Why not? Why not?”
“As a result of it’s all about to imagine,” he argued. “Have a look at Morocco in Qatar. Nobody imagine and proper to the semi-final or South Korea in Japan, and I feel the semi-final too.”
The U.S. males’s crew is presently ranked sixteenth on the earth and has reached the spherical of 16 in every of the 2010, 2014 and 2022 World Cups.