Mauricio Pochettino believes the United States men\'s national team can be the best in the world within the next \"five or 10 years\" due to the growing investment in soccer in the country. The United States will be co-hosts for the 2026 World Cup and are building a new national training center in Atlanta.
\"The eight countries which have won the World Cup all have amazing training centers,\" he told British media outlets in an interview published Tuesday.
\"When you go to the U.S. now [for training camps], one time you go to Los Angeles, then it\'s New York, Chicago, Miami, Orlando or St. Louis. Where is the center for football? If you look at the training centers of the NFL and baseball, you say: \'Wow.\' With football, it is: \'Where is the team going to train?\' We need to ask the colleges and universities.
\"Before the World Cup, U.S. Soccer is building an amazing training center in Atlanta and that is going to be one of the most unbelievable training centers in the world. That is going to be the base of soccer. It is the moment where people can see, soccer is going to be a serious sport because it has a home.
\"We need to congratulate the federation, and all the donors involved, who are helping to grow the sport, because it\'s No. 1 in the world. Because in five or 10 years, for sure we can be No. 1 in the world. It could be.\"
Via ESPN