{"id":31356,"date":"2026-08-03T13:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/31356\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:24:15","slug":"mauricio-pochettino-agrees-to-contract-extension-through-2030-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/31356\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauricio Pochettino agrees to contract extension through 2030 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By RONALD BLUM, AP Sports Writer<\/p>\n<p>BARCELONA, Spain (AP) \u2014 Mauricio Pochettino is staying with the U.S. soccer team, agreeing Monday to a four-year contract to coach the Americans through the 2030 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>A 54-year-old who took over in October 2024, Pochettino led the U.S. to the World Cup round of 16, where the tournament co-hosts were eliminated with a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-cup-united-states-belgium-score-0325e8102be7a88e852079deffd70ca0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-1 loss to Belgium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, he helped the seeded U.S. to a pair of firsts in the expanded 48-nation tournament, clinching advancement from the group stage with a game to spare and winning three games in a single World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By RONALD BLUM, AP Sports Writer BARCELONA, Spain (AP) \u2014 Mauricio Pochettino is staying with the U.S. soccer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[17072,7,4525,17071,4529],"class_list":["post-31356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-2030-world-cup","tag-belgium","tag-mauricio-pochettino","tag-mauricio-pochettino-contract-extension","tag-usmnt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117031801118579304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}