When Mauricio Pochettino addressed the US men’s national team for the first time after he joined last year, it made ex-American soccer star Eric Wynalda emotional. “I was like, there it is. There’s a coach. That’s a guy that gets it,” he said in his podcast show once. And we bet that similar would be the case for others. But fast forward to today, we think that feeling might have faded away as Pochettino might have shown his side that many would term as hostile.

It all stems from the recently announced October roster for the Ecuador and Australia friendly, where the Argentinian tactician shared a no-nonsense roster, calling major names yet not inviting a few. At the time when Poch was addressing the media after revealing his team for this month, renowned journali

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