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If you want to get US men’s national team head coach Mauricio Pochettino started, just use one word: leadership.

The former Tottenham Hotspur manager is famously well-studied on the subject and there are no shortage of clips of him waxing poetic about it.

He’s https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/31/mauricio-pochettino-firewalking-arrows-tottenham-liverpool-champions-league-final">led players over hot coals, or had them press their neck up against the tip of an arrow and lean into it until it shatters.

Ask Mauricio Pochettino about leadership and the words he’ll sprinkle into his answers will overlap heavily with late-night self-help ads, his sentences dotted with words like aura, bravery and self-determination.