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USA Would Love A Pre-World Cup Win. Does The Team Actually Need One?

U.S. SOCCER NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER (Fayetteville, Ga.) — Mauricio Pochettino tells the story often. Long before he became the manager of some of global soccer’s biggest brand-name clubs — and before he agreed to lead the United States men’s team at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on home soil — the now 54-year-old was a rugged central defender with Argentina’s all-planet squad. Not only is La Albiceleste capable of winning any World Cup it enters, fans in the fútbol-crazy South American nation expect them to. It’s the same for the coaches and players: anything less than hoisting the trophy is failur...