Mauricio Pochettino managed at Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea before taking over the United States job in September.
The Argentine started his coaching career at Espanyol and that convinced Southampton to bring him to England in 2013. A year later, he left the Saints for Spurs and spent over five years at the north London club.
Tottenham parted ways with the 52-year-old in November 2019 and he returned to the bench when PSG appointed him as their manager in January 2021. Last season, he was in charge at Chelsea, who replaced him with Enzo Maresca in the summer.
Monday’s edition of La Nación has published a lengthy interview with former Tottenham and Southampton manager.
Pochettino spent 18 months with PSG, and the Argentine won his first silverware there.
La Nación pointed out to Pochettino that he was an ‘important piece’ at PSG and Chelsea even though neither were entirely his own project.
When asked if he has more control with the United States, Pochettino explained how his spell in France was very different to Tottenham and Southampton.
“Well… I don’t know, human beings always long for what they don’t have or what they don’t know, and we always think that the other is better… You have to try it, that’s why you have to get out of your comfort zone. I believe that we must analyse the moments of the players, not their names, but their circumstances and contexts,” he said.
“PSG was an incredible experience… difficult, hard, where you really discover who you are, you really temper your sporting character. Behind an experience like this everything becomes a little more relative, you start to understand things that, perhaps, you didn’t understand before when you were at Southampton, at Espanyol or at Tottenham.
“Clubs like PSG make things have a different meaning. And that gives you the experience and knowledge to then decide what you like.
“And yes, as you say, perhaps this [with the US] is our project. Which at the same time is the project of a country, a country that is one of the two or three most important in the world and where the possibilities are incredible.”
