{"id":81304,"date":"2025-11-18T18:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pochettino-warns-u-s-will-suffer-against-bielsas-uruguay-his-mentor-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:45:02","slug":"pochettino-warns-u-s-will-suffer-against-bielsas-uruguay-his-mentor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/pochettino-warns-u-s-will-suffer-against-bielsas-uruguay-his-mentor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pochettino Warns: U.S. Will Suffer Against Bielsa’s Uruguay, His Mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"The United States technical director, Mauricio Pochettino, expressed his deep admiration and respect for his mentor, Uruguay’s coach, Marcelo Bielsa, warning his team about the demands of facing the Uruguayan strategist.This Tuesday, both coaches will face each other at Raymond James Stadium, in a friendly match between the United States and Uruguay.The relationship between Pochettino and Bielsa began when the former was 13 years old. Bielsa, then coach of the reserve team, recruited him for Newell’s Old Boys of Argentina.Bielsa coached Pochettino at Newell’s, at Espanyol in La Liga, and in the Argentinian national team.

“My admiration and respect are enormous. I cannot consider him a friend, but someone I admire, a hero. He is a person you look forward to talking to, whom you always look forward to greeting.”<\/p>Mauricio Pochettino<\/cite><\/blockquote>This will be the first encounter between both teams since Uruguay defeated the United States 1-0 in the group stage of the 2024 Copa Am\u00e9rica, a result that eliminated the Americans from the tournament. In that match, Uruguay’s physical play wore down the American team.Pochettino expects a similar game from “La Celeste”, who finished in fourth place in the South American qualifiers for the World Cup.

“For me, Tuesday will be a time to enjoy and be close to him. At the same time, we will suffer because all the teams led by Marcelo are very difficult to face.”<\/p>Mauricio Pochettino<\/cite><\/blockquote>The United States has shown a greater willingness to match physical intensity, as evidenced by the 2-1 victory over Paraguay last Saturday. At the end of the match, an altercation occurred when American defender Alex Freeman tried to recover the ball.Pochettino was satisfied with his players’ reaction.

“We are proud of how we acted, and Alex was good because he defended the ball. That shows character and that we care. I was happy to see that because, when the aggression comes from the other side, we need to defend ourselves.”<\/p>Mauricio Pochettino<\/cite><\/blockquote>Pochettino was also pleased with the development of other aspects of the identity of the US national team.

“I see that identity is built from the back, respecting the principles of the game. Tactical work, the ability to rotate, the use of space and building from the back are important”.<\/p>Mauricio Pochettino<\/cite><\/blockquote>The match against Uruguay will be the last of 2025 for the United States. Pochettino’s team will play two friendlies in March, probably against Portugal and Belgium, and then two more at the end of May or the beginning of June, before hosting the World Cup along with Canada and Mexico next summer.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States technical director, Mauricio Pochettino, expressed his deep admiration and respect for his mentor, Uruguay’s coach, Marcelo Bielsa, warning his team about the demands of facing the Uruguayan strategist.This Tuesday, both coaches will face each other at Raymond James Stadium, in a friendly match between the United States and Uruguay.The relationship between Pochettino […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[10282,2661,2017,2075],"class_list":{"0":"post-81304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-bielsa","9":"tag-pochettino","10":"tag-uruguay","11":"tag-usmnt"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81304","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=81304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}