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00:00The United States of America soccer team has officially not officially. I don't think officially
00:09they're going to hire Mauricio Pochettino as their new head coach to lead them to 2026
00:15World Cup gold. Did that not excite you guys? I don't know who he is. Not even a little.
00:23No. Well, I'll tell you this. He's been a coach for top top top clubs. He coached Messi.
00:29He coached Neymar at PSG. He was at Tottenham for a very long time before that. And he was
00:35at Chelsea the most recently for about a year till that American owner fired him because
00:39that dude switches coaches like he switches underwear.
00:44What's the guy's name? Mauricio Pochettino. Is he Italian? He's Argentinian. Is it a lot
00:52of people think he's a very good coach. A lot of people think he's a very good soccer
00:55manager. In my opinion, one of the most overrated coaches currently out there. The dude has
01:02coached some of the best teams, especially when he was with with PSG when he had Messi
01:08and Neymar. He won nothing. Every PSG always wins the league. That's what they do because
01:14they're the only good team there. And it just doesn't make sense to me. The guys never coached
01:19internationally before. But here you go. The U.S. got a big name guy, at least.
01:26But is it me? And maybe this sounds like super arrogant American talking here. Probably.
01:33We have to go and get a coach who's not American. Right. We go get a coach from Argentina who's
01:40been coaching internationally. I'm all for the you know, the most experienced and around
01:44the best players and at the highest level. But it's so it just seems strange to me that
01:50Team USA is so desperate for a great coach that it has to go to another country, to another
01:57nationality. Yeah. I mean, Bruce Arena worked out real well. Bob Bradley worked out real
02:02well. The guy that just fired has worked out real well. So, yeah, let's just keep bringing
02:08in some American dude. Well, maybe we're going to find out that you keep you can bring in
02:12a coach, whether he's American or Argentinian, whether he speaks English or he speaks Spanish.
02:17Maybe it's just not the coach. Maybe it's the players. Maybe it's a combination of the
02:20federation, the players, the development, the coaching. Maybe it's everything. How about
02:24that? Or the players suck, man. Listen, we've seen this throughout all layers of sports.
02:34You can keep changing a coach and changing a coach and changing a coach until you get
02:40LeBron James in a soccer kit, jersey, uniform, tank top, whatever they call it these days
02:48until you get a Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan wearing one of those things. Now, Tiger Woods,
02:54Alomar Jackson is going to look the same. We don't have the best players. Our best athletes
03:01don't play that sport. Yeah, but I think there's a big difference. I think that's an easy thing
03:07to say, but I think it's a very complex issue. No, I think it's a very complex issue in America
03:12because playing soccer isn't free here. Playing soccer is very expensive here, especially
03:16to play at the top, top, top levels, whereas other countries, you pick up a ball and you
03:20just start playing soccer and you. To play a you very expensive to play, travel baseball.
03:29Very expensive to pay organized football. Very expensive on parents. Help T-Balls like
03:36three hundred bucks a kid. I know gymnastics is like four and I was a kid. I know. So it's
03:43not like this. Well, yeah, it's not like these things are free. These are cost. These things
03:48cost money. So soccer is free or cheaper in other countries. We also like we also just
03:55say the most basic thing, like soccer is not that important in America compared to football,
03:59basketball and baseball. Absolutely. But this whole notion of of like not having the best
04:05athletes, you know, like as if Lamar Jackson committed his life to soccer, that he would
04:09be better than Neymar. I mean, we got comparable guys.