{"id":14246,"date":"2025-07-02T23:16:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/luna-essential-pochettino-praises-usmnts-performance-in-the-gold-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T23:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:16:39","slug":"luna-essential-pochettino-praises-usmnts-performance-in-the-gold-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/luna-essential-pochettino-praises-usmnts-performance-in-the-gold-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Luna, Essential: Pochettino Praises USMNT&#8217;s Performance in the Gold Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pochettino Praises Diego Luna After Gold Cup Victory<\/h2>\n\n\nUnited States coach Mauricio Pochettino expressed his admiration for Diego Luna&#8217;s performance, following his outstanding performance in the Gold Cup semi-final against Guatemala, where he scored two goals.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;Your attitude, hunger, desire, everything, and of course, the talent will appear. That&#8217;s what we expect from our athletes, that&#8217;s what we want,&#8221; Pochettino commented after the match at Energizer Park.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Mauricio Pochettino<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nPochettino highlighted Luna&#8217;s determination to play for the national team, emphasizing his commitment since the January camp.\n\nLuna, 21 years old, scored in the fourth and 15th minutes of the semi-final. The match was also marked by Guatemala&#8217;s offensive pressure, which scored a goal in the 80th minute, forcing the United States to defend with zeal.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;I think we handled it very well, I think it&#8217;s an incredible experience. I think this team deserves great recognition for reaching the final,&#8221; added Pochettino.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Mauricio Pochettino<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nLuna, who has three goals and two assists in five games, praised her teammates.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the grit, it&#8217;s the determination that we&#8217;ve lacked. To be honest, it&#8217;s fighting until the end. Every ball, every moment. The game is about moments, and I think that&#8217;s where we showed it,&#8221; Luna stated after the close victory.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Diego Luna<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0703%2Fr1514273_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Diego Luna celebra despu\u00e9s de marcar un gol contra Guatemala en la Copa Oro.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nPochettino also praised the atmosphere created by the Guatemalan fans, who turned the St. Louis stadium into a hotbed. He stressed that this is an example of football culture worldwide.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;An incredible energy. That&#8217;s football, that&#8217;s football,&#8221; said the American coach.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Mauricio Pochettino<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe United States will face the winner of the other semi-final between Mexico and Honduras in the Gold Cup final on Sunday at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pochettino Praises Diego Luna After Gold Cup Victory United States coach Mauricio Pochettino expressed his admiration for Diego Luna&#8217;s performance, following his outstanding performance in the Gold Cup semi-final against Guatemala, where he scored two goals. &#8220;Your attitude, hunger, desire, everything, and of course, the talent will appear. That&#8217;s what we expect from our athletes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3479,2419,3699,641],"class_list":{"0":"post-14246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-diego-luna","9":"tag-gold-cup","10":"tag-guatemala","11":"tag-united-states"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}