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Sacked by Paris Saint-Germain at the end of last season, Mauricio Pochettino returned to his complicated passage in the French capital during an interview with Radio Marca.
Six months after his departure from the French capital, the Argentine coach returned to the Spanish media on this difficult adventure at PSG despite XXL recruitment in the summer of 2021 with the arrivals of Lionel Messi, Gianluigi Donnarumma or even Sergio Ramos. “Designing such a team was a very difficult challenge, with a lot of unknowns. All these personalities, with this talent, in a team, it has only ever happened in Paris. The circumstances in which this project was created required time. Players arriving from the Copa America, from the European championship, injuries, a new city, a new culture… We ended up with nine or ten players who were captains of their national team. I think it was an amazing experience that will never happen again in the world”pointed out Pochettino.
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PSG coach, a thankless role?
Relaunched on the difficulty of being at the head of such a team, the former Spurs technician validated the term “ingratitude” dropped by the journalist who questioned him. “Everyone looks down on the coach’s work. Especially when we won it was because of individual talent and if we lost it was the fault of the coach”, he confided before returning to the terrible evening of March 9, 2022 on the lawn of Real Madrid (1-3). That evening, PSG came out in the round of 16 of the C1 by the merengue club after having conceded three goals in 17 minutes (triple from Benzema).
“There were a lot of decisions to be made, which the coach makes and which can be good or bad. In this analysis we changed Paredes and Gueye came on, we thought he would bring us that more and then we had a conversation with him. He admitted he was not ready to play. Di María came on and had a leg problem and ended up playing injured. These are situations that you know and that you cannot explain at the moment”dropped Pochettino.
