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I love Mr P. He might not have won the trophies that Mourinho has won, yet, but he is not a cunt. He is only 44 years old, that is really, really young for a manager, just imagine how many shiney precioussssses he could plonk in our trophy cabinet over the next 10 years. The bullet we dodged when that Dutch Cap looser snubbed us hit United right in the bollox, kapow! I think we would have been fucked up the tradesman's and United invincible if the tables had been turned. He has built a world-beating team with very little money, imagine what he would have done with all that wedge sloshing around up north? Maybe not, because as we have seen winning is more about attitude than price tag.
He is building a new Spurs saga, he could sit in Valhalla alongside legends like Sir Bill and the King - the possibilities are hu-fucking-mungous! COYP!
He is building a new Spurs saga, he could sit in Valhalla alongside legends like Sir Bill and the King - the possibilities are hu-fucking-mungous! COYP!
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This is class!
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Watching him manage from afar is like watching greatness being born. The best thing about him is I don't know what is the best thing is about him. His man management, composure, bringing on youth, improving players, no excuses mentality, changing the game, playing to both the strengths or weaknesses of his squad,etc etc etc. Oh, I even forgot about his training schedules.
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Bet LVG couldnt do this
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Don Diaz
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Only just seen this....love the hands in the pockets nonchalance....right foot, left foot....the bloke is a class act.
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check this out then !!
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Brilliant
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He should take the fucking corners !!!
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Yes either him or that Jesus Perez assistant manager, he looks brilliant in the pre match warm ups. Send the link to Eriksen!!
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http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/mauricio-pochettino-argentina-football-my-only-toy-091116/
Mauricio’s Argentina: ‘A football was my only toy’
Posted on 9 November 2016 - 15:10
Mauricio Pochettino is the boy from a small town in Argentina who went from watching the 1978 World Cup on a black and white TV to playing on the world’s biggest stage in 2002. In this mini-series, Mauricio tells us about all things Argentina – growing up loving the game, Maradona and what it was like to represent his country.
Football was Mauricio Pochettino’s life growing up in Murphy, a small town in the Santa Fe province of Argentina.
“Even as a small boy I always remember playing football with my family,” he recalled of those days in the 1970s. “Football was very important to me, it meant a lot.
“It was my only toy, a football, and in my head it was always ‘play football, play football, play football’. I played all the time, everywhere.”
It’s no surprise then that the 1978 World Cup, hosted by Argentina, made such an impact on the young Mauricio. A six-year-old watching his heroes lift the game’s biggest trophy on home soil – it doesn’t get much better than that!
Under the leadership of famed boss Cesar Menotti, Argentina, including future Spurs legends Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa, beat Johan Cruyff’s Holland 3-1 in the final in Buenos Aires (Menotti is pictured, below, surrounded by the press after that famous win).
Everyone at Spurs of course knows Ossie and Ricky, signed by Keith Burkinshaw after the World Cup in the summer of 1978, but the likes of Daniel Passerella and Mario Kempes are household names to football-loving kids of the 1970s.
“It was my first real football memory, the World Cup in 1978,” said Mauricio. “I was very young, six years old. We bought our first TV, black and white, to watch the World Cup.
“It was fantastic to watch the games. That moment was when I discovered football at a different level. I can remember all the players, legends – Kempes, Ardiles, Passarella, Bertoli, Fillol, Villa, Luque, Tarantini – all unbelievable players.”
It’s well documented that Mauricio was scouted aged 13 by Marcelo Bielsa, then working for Newell’s Old Boys, one of two teams in nearby Rosario (the other, Rosario Central),the biggest city in Santa Fe. He moved to Rosario at 14 and broke into the first team when Bielsa was manager in 1990.
“When I first joined Newell’s Old Boys, I never really thought that I would perhaps play for the first team or the national team or move to Europe,” explained Mauricio. “I was always trying to enjoy every time I had the opportunity to play football. I was never a person thinking about tomorrow, always thinking about today.”
Mauricio’s Argentina: ‘A football was my only toy’
Posted on 9 November 2016 - 15:10
Mauricio Pochettino is the boy from a small town in Argentina who went from watching the 1978 World Cup on a black and white TV to playing on the world’s biggest stage in 2002. In this mini-series, Mauricio tells us about all things Argentina – growing up loving the game, Maradona and what it was like to represent his country.
Football was Mauricio Pochettino’s life growing up in Murphy, a small town in the Santa Fe province of Argentina.
“Even as a small boy I always remember playing football with my family,” he recalled of those days in the 1970s. “Football was very important to me, it meant a lot.
“It was my only toy, a football, and in my head it was always ‘play football, play football, play football’. I played all the time, everywhere.”
It’s no surprise then that the 1978 World Cup, hosted by Argentina, made such an impact on the young Mauricio. A six-year-old watching his heroes lift the game’s biggest trophy on home soil – it doesn’t get much better than that!
Under the leadership of famed boss Cesar Menotti, Argentina, including future Spurs legends Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa, beat Johan Cruyff’s Holland 3-1 in the final in Buenos Aires (Menotti is pictured, below, surrounded by the press after that famous win).
Everyone at Spurs of course knows Ossie and Ricky, signed by Keith Burkinshaw after the World Cup in the summer of 1978, but the likes of Daniel Passerella and Mario Kempes are household names to football-loving kids of the 1970s.
“It was my first real football memory, the World Cup in 1978,” said Mauricio. “I was very young, six years old. We bought our first TV, black and white, to watch the World Cup.
“It was fantastic to watch the games. That moment was when I discovered football at a different level. I can remember all the players, legends – Kempes, Ardiles, Passarella, Bertoli, Fillol, Villa, Luque, Tarantini – all unbelievable players.”
It’s well documented that Mauricio was scouted aged 13 by Marcelo Bielsa, then working for Newell’s Old Boys, one of two teams in nearby Rosario (the other, Rosario Central),the biggest city in Santa Fe. He moved to Rosario at 14 and broke into the first team when Bielsa was manager in 1990.
“When I first joined Newell’s Old Boys, I never really thought that I would perhaps play for the first team or the national team or move to Europe,” explained Mauricio. “I was always trying to enjoy every time I had the opportunity to play football. I was never a person thinking about tomorrow, always thinking about today.”
skiathospurs
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Jaysas he is either still got it,or they did 100 takes
Don Diaz
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You need 18 minutes but it's worth the watch, our manager is still a very skillful footballer, which almost certainly gains huge respect from the players.
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PT 2http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/mauricio-pochettino-argentina-football-my-only-toy-091116/
Mauricio’s Argentina: ‘A football was my only toy’
Posted on 9 November 2016 - 15:10
Mauricio Pochettino is the boy from a small town in Argentina who went from watching the 1978 World Cup on a black and white TV to playing on the world’s biggest stage in 2002. In this mini-series, Mauricio tells us about all things Argentina – growing up loving the game, Maradona and what it was like to represent his country.
Football was Mauricio Pochettino’s life growing up in Murphy, a small town in the Santa Fe province of Argentina.
“Even as a small boy I always remember playing football with my family,” he recalled of those days in the 1970s. “Football was very important to me, it meant a lot.
“It was my only toy, a football, and in my head it was always ‘play football, play football, play football’. I played all the time, everywhere.”
It’s no surprise then that the 1978 World Cup, hosted by Argentina, made such an impact on the young Mauricio. A six-year-old watching his heroes lift the game’s biggest trophy on home soil – it doesn’t get much better than that!
Under the leadership of famed boss Cesar Menotti, Argentina, including future Spurs legends Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa, beat Johan Cruyff’s Holland 3-1 in the final in Buenos Aires (Menotti is pictured, below, surrounded by the press after that famous win).
Everyone at Spurs of course knows Ossie and Ricky, signed by Keith Burkinshaw after the World Cup in the summer of 1978, but the likes of Daniel Passerella and Mario Kempes are household names to football-loving kids of the 1970s.
“It was my first real football memory, the World Cup in 1978,” said Mauricio. “I was very young, six years old. We bought our first TV, black and white, to watch the World Cup.
“It was fantastic to watch the games. That moment was when I discovered football at a different level. I can remember all the players, legends – Kempes, Ardiles, Passarella, Bertoli, Fillol, Villa, Luque, Tarantini – all unbelievable players.”
It’s well documented that Mauricio was scouted aged 13 by Marcelo Bielsa, then working for Newell’s Old Boys, one of two teams in nearby Rosario (the other, Rosario Central),the biggest city in Santa Fe. He moved to Rosario at 14 and broke into the first team when Bielsa was manager in 1990.
“When I first joined Newell’s Old Boys, I never really thought that I would perhaps play for the first team or the national team or move to Europe,” explained Mauricio. “I was always trying to enjoy every time I had the opportunity to play football. I was never a person thinking about tomorrow, always thinking about today.”
http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/mauricio-pochettino-argentina-maradona-101116/
Mauricio Pochettino is the boy from a small town in Argentina who went from watching the 1978 World Cup on a black and white TV to playing on the world’s biggest stage in 2002. In this mini-series, Mauricio tells us about all things Argentina – growing up loving the game, Maradona and what it was like to represent his country. Part Two - Mauricio and Maradona.
Think back, for a moment, to your boyhood footballing hero. It might have been Jimmy Greaves, perhaps Glenn Hoddle, Gazza and Gary Lineker, Jurgen Klinsmann, Teddy Sheringham to Robbie Keane and Gareth Bale.
Imagine that player joining your club, and then becoming your room-mate.
That’s what happened to Mauricio Pochettino in 1993, when Diego Maradona walked through the door at Newell’s Old Boys.
Below: Maradona in 1979
Regarded by many as the best player of all-time - and voted joint-first with Pele for FIFA'S Player of the 20th Century - Maradona broke into the Argentina first team aged 16 in 1977 and went on to earn 93 caps, scoring 34 goals. As captain, his performances dragged Argentina to the final of the World Cup in 1986 and he went on to lift the trophy at the Azteca Stadium.
Mauricio watched all that from afar. When Maradona made his full debut, Mauricio was five. When he lifted the World Cup in 1986, Mauricio was 14. Seven years later, he was in the same room as his idol.
“For me, Maradona is the best player I have seen in my life,” said Mauricio. “It’s true you have Messi, Cristiano, Pele, Di Stefano and Cruyff but for me, Maradona is the best. It’s my generation.
Below: Mauricio
'It was like a movie'
“Then you have the possibility to be close to him - the charisma, the personality, everything.
“It was a dream to play with him. He was my room-mate! It was unbelievable. On the first day, I went to go to sleep in the room, I could not sleep! It was like a dream or you are in a movie.”
Now 21, Mauricio was already a regular at Newell’s Old Boys in the city of Rosario and an Argentina Premier League ‘Apertura’ (1990-91) and ‘Clausura’ (1991-92) title winner. Indeed, he would soon depart for Espanyol. Meanwhile, Maradona had returned ‘home’ to Argentina after a spell in La Liga with Sevilla.
“It was fantastic,” continued Mauricio. “I learned things you cannot buy, things you cannot teach.
Below: Maradona in 1986
“For me, the most important thing I learned from him was that to be a great footballer, you need to love the game, to love training, to love sharing with your team-mates, to love touching the football. That was important.
“Maradona is Maradona because he had an unbelievable talent but one thing is important, he respects the game, he loves the game, he always loved his team-mates and respected his team-mates. That’s why Maradona is Maradona.”
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Good stuff all this Pochettino insight thanks @skiathospurs always nice to know a bit more about the manager and his influences and opinions.
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Mauricio's Argentina: 'To wear the shirt is the best thing that can happen in your life'
Posted on 11 November 2016 - 14:30
In the final part of 'Mauricio's Argentina', Mauricio Pochettino tells us what it was like to go from the wide-eyed young boy who watched Argentina win the World Cup on a black and white TV aged six in 1978 to representing his country in the World Cup 24 years later.
Mauricio Pochettino's dream came true in March, 1999.
That's when he went from the boy from the small town of Murphy to full Argentine international, his first full cap.
It was quite a game as well against Holland at ArenA Amsterdam.
Argentina lined-up with the likes of Veron, Zanetti and Batistuta alongside Mauricio while the home side fielded van der Sar, Cocu, Davids, Seedoorf, Bergkamp and Kluivert. Former Spurs midfielder Davids fired Holland into the lead with a cracker from 25 yards but was then sent off and Batistuta, 'Batigol' levelled late for Argentina.
Below: Mauricio training with Argentina in 1999
It was Mauricio's first cap of 20 between 1999-2002 - all under Marcelo Bielsa - taking in three appearances in the 2002 World Cup Finals.
'The best thing'
Mauricio: "For all Argentina players to wear the Argentina shirt is the best thing that can happen in your life because we are really passionate about football, we are really proud of our country and we all want to play for our country. It’s a special thing. My debut was against the Netherlands in Amsterdam. It was a great moment, unbelievable for me."
Below: Mauricio lines-up against England in the 2002 World Cup
The World Cup
Mauricio: "The World Cup was difficult (Argentina lost to England, Mauricio fouled Michael Owen for a penalty and Argentina went out in the group stage). You don’t have time to stop, to enjoy it.You arrive then play and play. Now, maybe when I remember everything that has happened in my career, maybe I can enjoy it more than in that moment when you are involved. You don’t have time to stop and enjoy it. Now you realise. Now you can appreciate it’s a massive thing."
Below: Mauricio in training with Harry Kane and assistant Jesus Perez
Qualifying in South America - 'more than football'
As we've seen this time around, qualifying for the World Cup Finals via South America is tough. Argentina lost 3-0 against Brazil in the early hours of Friday and that has left them sixth of 10 teams aiming for Russia in 2018.
The 10 teams play home and away and the top four progress to the finals. The fifth-placed team then enters the intercontinental play-off.
Argentina are only point adrift of Ecuador with seven matches remaining, but the fact they are down in sixth illustrates how difficult it is.
Mauricio: "It’s difficult, yes. It’s very competitive. Now you can look at the table and Argentina big games ahead. We’ll see. When you play, you are not looking to just play football, you play more than football. The atmosphere outside the stadium, at the hotel, when you are training, it’s like you are fighting for something beyond football."
Mauricio's Argentina: 'To wear the shirt is the best thing that can happen in your life'
Posted on 11 November 2016 - 14:30
In the final part of 'Mauricio's Argentina', Mauricio Pochettino tells us what it was like to go from the wide-eyed young boy who watched Argentina win the World Cup on a black and white TV aged six in 1978 to representing his country in the World Cup 24 years later.
Mauricio Pochettino's dream came true in March, 1999.
That's when he went from the boy from the small town of Murphy to full Argentine international, his first full cap.
It was quite a game as well against Holland at ArenA Amsterdam.
Argentina lined-up with the likes of Veron, Zanetti and Batistuta alongside Mauricio while the home side fielded van der Sar, Cocu, Davids, Seedoorf, Bergkamp and Kluivert. Former Spurs midfielder Davids fired Holland into the lead with a cracker from 25 yards but was then sent off and Batistuta, 'Batigol' levelled late for Argentina.
Below: Mauricio training with Argentina in 1999
It was Mauricio's first cap of 20 between 1999-2002 - all under Marcelo Bielsa - taking in three appearances in the 2002 World Cup Finals.
'The best thing'
Mauricio: "For all Argentina players to wear the Argentina shirt is the best thing that can happen in your life because we are really passionate about football, we are really proud of our country and we all want to play for our country. It’s a special thing. My debut was against the Netherlands in Amsterdam. It was a great moment, unbelievable for me."
Below: Mauricio lines-up against England in the 2002 World Cup
The World Cup
Mauricio: "The World Cup was difficult (Argentina lost to England, Mauricio fouled Michael Owen for a penalty and Argentina went out in the group stage). You don’t have time to stop, to enjoy it.You arrive then play and play. Now, maybe when I remember everything that has happened in my career, maybe I can enjoy it more than in that moment when you are involved. You don’t have time to stop and enjoy it. Now you realise. Now you can appreciate it’s a massive thing."
Below: Mauricio in training with Harry Kane and assistant Jesus Perez
Qualifying in South America - 'more than football'
As we've seen this time around, qualifying for the World Cup Finals via South America is tough. Argentina lost 3-0 against Brazil in the early hours of Friday and that has left them sixth of 10 teams aiming for Russia in 2018.
The 10 teams play home and away and the top four progress to the finals. The fifth-placed team then enters the intercontinental play-off.
Argentina are only point adrift of Ecuador with seven matches remaining, but the fact they are down in sixth illustrates how difficult it is.
Mauricio: "It’s difficult, yes. It’s very competitive. Now you can look at the table and Argentina big games ahead. We’ll see. When you play, you are not looking to just play football, you play more than football. The atmosphere outside the stadium, at the hotel, when you are training, it’s like you are fighting for something beyond football."
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Pochetino is not a Dutch man and has no place being here. Poch out!
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We're close to the stage where holding onto Pochettino will be our biggest battle.
Finchbee
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I am not so sure, i think there is a real close nature about our staff and players, i think they really want to achieve together
Don Diaz
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Plus Poch is earning more than any single player.....
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I don't disagree mate tbh but you just know they'll come sniffing. I think what he has built so far and what he wants to build long term is very special. Imo, he won't jump ship but you just know they'll try to unsettle him. having said that, I honestly get the impression money isn't his motivation. We're in a great place, long may it last
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The big English clubs' obsession with celebrity managers has protected us from this so far. Plus, Zidane is doing very well at Real, ditto for Ancelotti at Bayern and Allegri at Juve, and Poch is not a Barca man. Honestly the only high-profile club not really happy with their manager that would have more resources to offer than we do is PSG, and although he's got history there (and said it would be a "dream" to manage them one day) I don't see that being an issue anytime soon, not with everything we've got going for us right now.
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He has a wife you know....and it's not incontinentia buttocks...
She might like Paris as a place to live? I think Poch will be here for minimum 2 more years and if we win something major then longer. At some point he may need financial support to buy a marquee player if we need one. If he can keep the squad together he may not even. Red that.
This is starting to look a little like Ferguson and his 'kids' of years ago.....
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Very unusual in this world. Thanks.
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He can barely speak English and he makes crap subs ...you utter clueless fucking helmets
Dorset
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BUT he hasn't won anything! If only we had got a proper manager with a history of winning stuff like LVG or Jose!
Fucking loverly eh? A young manager growing into a superstar along with our young players, a legend in the making maybe?
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Unreal mate we don't deserve him with our fanbase