Mauricio Pochettino<\/a> has turned into an office at the U.S. men\u2019s soccer team\u2019s beachfront resort in south Orange County. The citrus fruit, the coach believes, has the spiritual ability to absorb negative energy. On the corner of another table, the flame from a candle flickers.<\/p>\n\u201cI like candles,\u201d says Pochettino, who believes they release therapeutic fragrances and create a calming environment.<\/p>\n
But it is the massive, blood-red mural covering the entire south side of the room that truly reveals what Pochettino believes. In the center of the wall, just behind the coach\u2019s desk, white block letters spell out \u201cWhy Not\u201d above a script \u201cU.S.,\u201d which, despite the periods, is meant to be read as \u201cus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Why not us?\u2019 How Mauricio Pochettino taught the U.S. to believe it could win a World Cup A…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":910128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,357473,2385,5208,47066,368108,2961,17711,224,2444,5337,171514,50,72266,364970,29238,21490],"class_list":["post-910127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-daily-recap","tag-day","tag-friday","tag-highlight","tag-knockout-round-result","tag-la","tag-live-update","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-memorable-moment","tag-news","tag-plenty","tag-three-game-slate","tag-tv-schedule","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116856903084878566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}