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Mauricio Pochettino is an Argentine soccer manager who has taken over the head job of the United States men’s national soccer team vacated by Greg Berhalter. Here are five things you may not know about Pochettino as he prepares to don the red, white and blue.

After struggling in its first nine months under coach Mauricio Pochettino , the United States headed into a World Cup year with a five-game unbeaten streak and its most one-sided win over an opponent from South America's confederation.

“We wanted to make a statement. We wanted to show what U.S. soccer’s about,” Sebastian Berhalter said after the Americans scored four goals in a 25-man span of the first half and routed Uruguay 5-1 on Tuesday night. "We had a chance to go out here and give everything we

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