União São João · Tercera División RFEF - Promotion - Play-offs · Midfielder · #16 · Brazil · 23 yrs
Every World Cup needs its hosts to start well, more so this one, and Mauricio Pochettino’s team delivered on a fun day on the Pacific coastThe ball is magic, remember. Just keep watching the ball. On a lovely soft powder blue night in Los Angeles the World Cup produced an opening act on its US front that might have been conjured by the whirling hands of Gianni Infantino himself, a Fifa president who increasingly has the air and the mannerisms of an elite celebrity stage magician. Or at the very least, of a man who appreciates the power of the show.It turns out California really does know how to put on one of those. There was even a moment before kick-off that seemed to capture the cosmically strange nature of the entire Fifa multiverse. A little later the headline act Katy Perry would appear in a silver bustle and perform on a podium alongside a 10-year-old TikToker. Continue reading...
Unlike most other countries, the US are playing the 2026 World Cup not just for themselves, but for the future of their voice in the sportWorld Cup newsletter | Daily podcast | Download the appMauricio Pochettino paused. The microphone signal flickered. He tried, for a second time, to say a few things to the 5,500 fans who had gathered in the sun Monday at Championship Soccer Stadium in Irvine, California – the United States’ World Cup home base – for an open training session. Nothing. Then something. More choppy audio. By the time things came back online, he had developed a quip.“We are in the greatest country in the world,” he said in his Rioplatense-accented English. “But the technology does not work.” Continue reading...
Officially getting their home World Cup adventure underway in the early hours of Saturday, the USA will welcome Paraguay to California. With the sporting world now fully fixed on the 2026 World Cup, there are plenty of intriguing betting promotions and bonuses available. Verdict: Over 1.5 goals Best Odds: 4/9 Bookmaker: BetUS USA Starting with the […] The post Prediction: USA vs Paraguay appeared first on SoccerNews.
The men’s head coach discusses his ‘American dream’ at the World Cup and tempering the host nation’s ‘arrogant’ expectationsThis American dream begins in small-town Murphy, Santa Fe. That’s Santa Fe, Argentina, at a little club where the old folk played bochas, a kind of boules, and they had one of the few colour television sets. It was 1978, Mauricio Pochettino was six years old and he can see it perfectly, still feel the meaning of it all.“I lived in a prefab with my grandmother and my older brother because my parents were off working the land, then at the weekend we would go to the club,” he says. “There were three courts and I remember standing there, hanging on to my dad’s pocket, watching the World Cup. The ticker-tape at River [Plate], that image engraved. Passarella, Ardiles, Luque, Bertoni, Kempes, Fillol, Tarantini … my heroes.” Continue reading...
Officially getting their home World Cup adventure underway in the early hours of Saturday, the USA will welcome Paraguay to California. With the sporting world now fully fixed on the 2026 World Cup, there are plenty of intriguing betting promotions and bonuses available. Verdict: Over 1.5 goals Best Odds: 4/9 Bookmaker: 1xBet USA Starting with the […] The post Prediction: USA vs Paraguay appeared first on SoccerNews.
Mauricio Pochettino faces Julian Nagelsmann on Saturday evening as USA and Germany lock horns in an international friendly at Soldier Field in Chicago. The two nations meet for the first time since October 2023, when Die Mannschaft overturned a deficit to claim a 3–1 victory in Connecticut. Verdict: Away win Best odds: 3/5 Bookmaker: 1xBet […] The post Prediction: USA vs Germany appeared first on SoccerNews.
Pochettino has opted to emphasize the USMNT's attacking strengths since taking the job in the fall of 2024, a strategy that was clearly on display in the team's 3-2 win over Senegal on Sunday
