Pochettino opens the door to Guardiola
The almost certain march of Mauricio Pochettino to the Manchester United to succeed Michael Carrickwhose dismissal appears imminent, will leave the position of United States coach vacant. And among the candidates for office he dreams strongly of neither more nor less than Pep Guardiola.
According to Tom Bogert, an expert journalist in the MLS and the United States national team, everything indicates that the Federation will have Guardiola as its main objective to take over the reins of the national team, although it is aware that his hiring will not be easy. In any case, the operation would begin with a call to the Catalan coach himself.
Guardiola has been without a team since he ended ten years at the helm last May. Manchester City. Weeks later, in July, he met in Barcelona with Paolo Maldini, then technical director of the Italian Football Federation, and Leonard, sports advisor to the organization, but rejected the offer because he wanted to take some time off.
On several occasions Guardiola has expressed his desire to lead a national team. In fact, after the 2022 World Cup, he was contacted by the Brazilian Football Confederationbut he rejected the possibility of assuming the reins of the ‘canarinha’ because at that time he had many challenges to meet at City.
The English Federation He also wanted to hire Guardiola to take charge of the Three Lions after Euro 2024, replacing Gareth Southgatebut Pep ended up renewing for City.
Now it remains to be seen if the possibility of the former coach of Barcelona and Bayern Munich succeed Pochettino as United States coach or, on the contrary, continue his sabbatical period.
