MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — A day before Christian Pulisic's likely return to the field for the U.S. national team, coach Mauricio Pochettino repeated the summer flap between him and the biggest American star was in the past.

“We all made a mistake in some time, because we read the situation in a different way,” Pochettino said Friday ahead of a friendly against South Korea. “The most important is that when you are intelligent people, if we want to move on and do the right things — I want to be intelligent.”

A midfielder who turns 27 on Sept. 18, Pulisic skipped the CONCACAF Gold Cup in June to rest his body after two long seasons with AC Milan. He offered to play in a pair of June friendlies; Pochettino rejected that because he wanted to keep the same group together, saying: "I am the he

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