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What Pochettino personally confirmed in this excellent interview: 1) It is/was a tough job reversing the broken and chronically ill ship he inherited. 2) The difference between "soccer" and football everywhere else in the world? In the US it's about entertainment since there's no consequences like relegation in MLS. Overseas it's NOT merely entertainment. 3) People lose perspective and show a lack of respect for those with expertise. To boot, pro American soccer coaches also demonstrated this lack of respect [to me]. 4) US Soccer is not interfering in his roster decisions. 5) The American European-based players had a posture of entitlement, and were treating call-ups as unimportant. One main reason is (unlike the earlier generations) they didn't/don't need the USMNT platform to get to Europe and, crazily, believed their spot on the World Cup was already secure. Nowhere else in the world is there that entitlement. "I've never heard of even Messi, Maradona, Ronaldo, saying a year before the world cup 'nah, I'm gonna rest so that I'm fresh for the WC next year.'" Even the media/fans were justifying that rationale, that culture. 6) Copy the best in the world. Don't try to invent something new. 7) The USMNT generation from the 90s, who now have media jobs, had to fight in a very different way for what they earned. The current generation is different in that respect as well. 8) Elsewhere it's team first, not player first. We've got to get to that here in the US as well. This doesn't just go for the player posture, but the media/fans as well. 9) Proper culture: Players need to take all these friendly games as if they are world cup games. 10) There are players who we [the technical staff] fell in love with, and others we became disappointed in. Every player is unique and must be analyzed as such. 11) It's silly to work for "legacy", with the exception of being remembered as a good person and good professional. 12) The goal is to WIN the World Cup. If one doesn't think that way, what's the point? x.com/AndresCantorGO…

@AU_AUsome Retarded

@3four3 Love this change and hope it happens. Takes the discretion out of the CR’s hands.

Continuing to neuter and destroy the game.

@KaYung1130 Rule-following anglo-automatons are indoctrinated to be obedient NPCs. Thus they can't stand when others are not obedient NPCs.

@3four3 That’s what the extra time is for

@CoryM2424 That rationale, especially held by a particular culture, is well understood

@3four3 I watch mostly Prem and the amount of diving and time wasting on corners and goal kicks has gotten unbearable, anything to fix these issues I’m all for it

@CoryM2424 The superficial rationale is well known

@3four3 90 min of game time should be 90 minutes of game time. Yeah it makes the game more rigid but makes the time more accurate and eliminates arbitrary ref decisions of how much time should be added. I don’t mind it

MLS customers have no idea what they are supporting.

He’s the best x.com/godfrey_amoah/…

The latest IQ test involves data centers and water.

Beyond one single license that ensures you know about things like safety protocols, soccer coaching "licenses" everywhere should be abolished. Now, the federations could [and arguably should] offer educational courses, but not as gatekeeping mechanisms (aka licenses). Generally, licenses are supposed to be about protecting the public from serious and dire consequences. Professions that make sense to impose license requirements: ✅Medicine ✅Law ✅Construction ✅Pilots ✅Electricians You get it. But to coach soccer? GTFOH The principle reason these soccer "licenses" exist today is to serve as yet another lever in preserving/increasing power centralization.

Builders 🙌

Kirk's got a lot of valuable experience. This was covered in episode #425. Link below. x.com/kirkkinsey/sta…

Jumping in the youtube channel comments. Some good questions.

@mugzypayton the market obviously I'm not saying the minority who benefit from status quo

@3four3 Educating whom? The people making money from this system won't want to change it. Look at MLS trying to nuke any potential threat of USL with their MLS Next Pro expansion. The big youth clubs don't want to 'fix' anything. There are parents who know better but are stuck as well

American soccer has a way of selling people the dream while hiding the machinery underneath.

@mugzypayton education comes first

@3four3 How do we build something outside of the eco-system?

@XianVCon yes

@3four3 Do you forward remedies, solutions?

@thesoccerlabMN Those are not massively missing in the US. In fact, believing those things is one of the modes the establishment leverages to hide the machinery.

@3four3 Also, a lack of self-awareness about what a real soccer nation looks like.....lots of touches daily, pick up games, watching soccer etc etc...all of these are massively missing in the US

We must preach the gospel of free market capitalism to all who will listen. It is the answer to our problems.

Contrary to the smearing he's been subjected to by the insecure media, Hoyos has been on the mark 🎯 with his answers and general treatment of the media. Which is why the media smear him. Very meta. x.com/TheBolivianYan…