The Soccer OG - USA 🇺🇸 New Zealand 🇳🇿 Recap. Disappointing Sept window ends, but Poch announced!!

[Music] the September window of games is over thank God not what we had expected after the disappointment of the Copa America we were gifted more disappointment but there was a silver lining at long last at long last we heard from Macio pochettino and confirmation from the powers at B at US soccer that he is signed sealed and delivered he is excited about this job and he is going to be in charge in the next window of games uh officially oh my notes got all wet here who got all this wet October the 12th when they take on Panama in Austin Texas so great news on that front and we are going to talk more about portino in our next video we have videos pumping out here on the soccer OG we have more good news to share with you check out the soccer OG podcast where all podcasts are available my guest on the next pod is going to be Alexi Lis we will talk about portino we'll talk about the US Men's National Team and where we are headed and we'll talk about him he's done he's had an incredible year uh really building his State of the Union podcast and we will indulge that so I think check that out soccer OG podcast wherever you find your podcast like And subscribe us here and you know subscribe hit the Subscribe hit the like you know what to do I mean you've gone through this drill many times we're going to have another show here tomorrow talking all things portino how it happened what are the implications and what we expect portino to do in his first couple months in charge with the United States an incredible challenge so we will have all of that but we are going to focus here on the USA New Zealand game which did not offer a lot of uh positives with regards to this program even with the news of portino you were hoping to see a player base lifted up hoping to make it an initial impression because now you know and knowing portino he is watching tape after tape after tape he can now make phone calls he can now go to games I hope he spends some time in the United States I think it's important I was hoping he would be here because uh I don't want to get ahead of myself but if he was if this happened a few days earlier and he walks out into that stadium in Cincinnati and goes yeah I'm here and there's going to be a proper introduction for him here shortly so we'll get all of that but this was been just an inspiring moment and for people like me who are inside the Beltway of uh US soccer American soccer you know it's a pump the fist moment but we didn't get that soon we'll forget about it and we'll forget about these games these games do not matter so don't have a knee-jerk reaction to it all so many key players missing if you look around around the world where there games that did matter obviously World Cup qualifying in South America African Cup of Nations qualifying in Africa Nations League games in Europe which meant something but you could sense the fatigue and that with all of these games so this was whatever um we uh we want to see a better performance obviously we want to see some things that we can take away there was a few things we could take away out of the Canada game and I think there's a couple things here that we could take away from uh this matchup as as well we'll try to we'll try to spin it positively as we can but we'll keep it short and sweet so we can get ready for the the pettino show coming up this was the starting 11 and I think of note when you look at what we had here there were only four players who were on the field who started the game against Uruguay in the final Cupa Medica game that were on this squad on this 11 here you talk about the eight players that were not called in or were injured and that's all you know this is a it's probably a C team right it's probably a C team but maybe it's the A Team because we're going to know what portino comes in and we'll give you more idea of what he is seeing but we know everyone's on check everyone is on check and you can see it etched on the face of Christian psic who just was different when they asked him about pochettino you could sense the disappointment he had after the Canada game he came off the bench and in this game you could sense the disappointment with the result you could just sense the disappointment period he seems like a guy who is uninspired who is disappointed who is you know very reflective about what's happening and he is our most important player there's no ifs ANS or buts about it so uh his discontent certainly resonates and uh in in a new er of American soccer where we need leaders we need him I mean he is our best candidate he has tenure and he is our most talented player but this was the starting 11 very quickly Matt Turner in goal after Patrick schy started did okay against Canada it was a 442 which was surprising I don't know what that means for portino but I'm sure there's some conversations between portino and Mike varus and US soccer even though portino is going to bring in his own crew Christopher L starts both games uh as does Chris Richards Mark McKenzie comes in and Marlon FY also coming in at right back Wright Eunice Musa Aiden Morris Brendan arenson were the midfielders and balagan and pepe were the players up top so Chris Richards was the captain I saw a nice little story first player from Alabama uh ever to Captain the US team and I think that's important I think that's important to show the width and breadth of what we're doing the development of American soccer the guys aren't just coming from California or Texas or New Jersey they're coming from Alabama they're coming from Alaska they're coming from I mean where some interesting Georgia Maine I don't know if they are but I know Georgia and Alaska they're perhaps coming that's a good sign so happy for Chris Richards to have that um have that moment so it was the energy the intensity was certainly lacking but I I mean there was some I I want to get into some of the positives I saw and we can kind of pick off of that just kind of going through the game uh Ricardo Pepe was all over this I want to say something about Ricardo Pepe I thought he wasn't good against Canada he was good in this game he just couldn't catch a break right couldn't get it he had a goal disallowed in the 21st minute that should have been a goal and that obviously changes things for a game that ended up 1-1 and that's a big story for the US that we take away from this right because the story under Greg berhalter was that we could beat the teams we were supposed to but we couldn't beat the better teams in the world but now we're not beating the teams we're supposed to supposed to beat Canada at home we're supposed to beat New Zealand at home in fact the record for the United States in their last three months is 1 14 and two and they've they played Uruguay other than that they play teams they are supposed to beat so that is a that is something that I think is pretty alarming coming out of uh what we saw here in both uh Kansas city as well as Cincinnati um Ricardo Pepe I felt bad at me he he was involved in a lot of positive things but he was an intense I think there was a couple guys that played with a lot of intensity Pepe was one I thought Brennan arenson played with that intensity unas Musa had an intensity but it was misfired he was turning the ball over this was a bad day for Eunice Musa I still think he's going to be a big part of the US Men's National Team but this was a bad day can't turn the ball over especially when the guy you played alongside in Mars was a Cadillac take all my money Aiden Mars Aiden Mars is the guy I have him right on the cusp of being our number start I know I don't want to be prisoner of the moment it's still going to be Tyler Adams but I think Aiden Mars has shown has some really good tape to show Mauricio portino he's ahead of Johnny cardoso and he's ahead of Tanner tessman who wasn't here that's what I think Aiden Mars did so common collected in two games look like he has been with the national team for years didn't he I was I alone in that he looked like he belonged that is what we want to see we just need to see it from more players Aiden Mars got that eye of the tiger that I told you about in previous shows so Aiden Mars did well back to the intensity um Adam Mars wasn't the most intense person there he was just I guess not to get into semantics but certainly the most uncompromising he wasn't taking any crap from anyone and when he made a mistake he fixed it I loved it perfect perfect perfect stuff from him but the intense players were Pepe for me Brenan arenson Musa misdirected intensity in some cases and how about Marlon FY or cuaa I that's the worst song ever so I don't want to go any further with that just because of the hair I know he plays on the right side not the left side but he looked really good I mean as a depth piece for the fullbacks I'll take FY I'll take Aaron and I mean I'll take FY I'll take uh Morris to a lesser degree CU he made a big foul up that led to the New Zealand game was Mark McKenzie who looked comfortable in Lo he had some turnovers too no one was pretty but we're looking for passing center backs and McKenzie has that about him um it it I want to see I I'll put it this Mar Mark McKenzie didn't blow us out of the water but I want to see more good first half second half was so so because of the mistake so in the positive Department Aiden Mars FY Mark McKenzie um Off the Bench we have a super suban Christian psic should we should we he scores another goal in Cincinnati it was actually his first goal in some time so Christian ptic scoring was was nice uh the US should have won this game should have they should have had three goals uh Flo balagan again played had nice moments but we have to see him score a goal he was so close so many times he was involved in a really nice chance at the hour mark uh in the uh there was a great setup he had for Aronson in the 64th minute uh so I I think balagan my fear on balagan is that he plays with Monaco and he s he's in a situation where he's not scoring goals and he becomes another us player that's not playing for his club which we'll talk more about in the next video could be a huge dilemma because I don't think Macio pochettino wants he might accept one player or two player that's not playing on their Club because they're that talented but he's not going to accept five or six that is a non-starter he wants guys that are playing and playing regularly and playing important minutes for their clubs regardless of where those clubs are that's why I bring up a guy like FY who's playing in Belgium it's not a top League Aiden Mars is playing in the efl championship that's not a top League so as I said before let's get away from hey this guy's playing at Milan this guy's playing at betties this guy is playing at uh in the Premier League doesn't matter it's got to be uh a combination of playing at a good club but also playing period uh Wright again a bit rudderless but you don't throw him out the baby with the bath water so I was okay with him and the look the reality is they should be beating a team like New Zealand 34-1 just like Mexico did Mexico had better results Canada had better results Canada Mexico scoreless tie the US uh of the the big three I guess you could say in conera were a distant third there is no doubt about it uh but we we we push this aside we we're disappointed about it but we don't dwell on it too much because we're going to have a bumper of a setup in October with those games against Panama and Mexico maricio pochettino is going to be on the sideline and and the exciting part is starting right now and heading up to a month from now pochettino because he is the professional and we'll talk about you know he knows what about these expectations and he has coached at the biggest destinations where the pressure is immense he knows the work you have to put in I mean I don't think Greg berhalter was short changing it and Mikey virus isn't shortchanging it but pochettino puts the the work in has all the connections in the world and has seen it all so we're very blessed we're excited about that we're not excited about how these games went we got to play a lot of new players that's good uh and we can be disappointed and look I'm not my excitement for the 2026 World Cup is as low as it's been since they announced us having the World Cup it really is my is it's probably as low since 2017 that's dead serious this these results the the the play on the the field the The Angst and so forth about the players it's all bad and that is um that is uh what we have to uh accept right now but the good news it'll get better and hopefully it gets better in a month the soccer OG podcast we have a new one with Alexi lais check it out available where you get your podcast like And subscribe us here another video all about maricio portino coming in next thanks for joining us I'm Max we'll see you soon n

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