{"id":561492,"date":"2026-03-24T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561492\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:45:08","slug":"mauricio-pochettino-united-states-boss-says-he-misses-the-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561492\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauricio Pochettino: United States boss says he ‘misses’ the Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Tottenham and Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino says he misses “the world of football in England”.<\/p>\n

Pochettino is preparing to lead co-hosts the United States at this summer’s World Cup following his appointment as head coach in September 2024.<\/p>\n

The Argentine has had three different spells in the Premier League, most recently leaving Chelsea by mutual consent after one season in May 2024.<\/p>\n

He spent five years at Tottenham and led the club to the Champions League final before being sacked in 2019, having been appointed from Southampton.<\/p>\n

“I love the country, its culture, the football culture,” Pochettino said in an interview with French publication L’Equipe, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“For anyone with a competitive spirit who wants to measure themselves against others and test their abilities, it’s the ideal place. <\/p>\n

“You have to constantly give your best.”<\/p>\n

Pochettino ruled himself out of the running to replace Ange Postecoglou at Tottenham last summer, saying a return to his former club at that point was “not realistic”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He confirmed to L’Equipe that Spurs previously contacted him over a return after his first six months in Paris in 2021, along with “other very big clubs”.<\/p>\n

The United States are hosting the 2026 World Cup alongside Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n

He told BBC Sport last year that he was “so happy in America but also thinking one day to come back to the Premier League”.<\/p>\n

Former club Spurs are among the sides currently searching for their next permanent manager, as they face a fight to avoid relegation over the remaining seven games of the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tottenham and Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino says he misses “the world of football in England”. Pochettino is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-561492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}