Mauricio Pochettino defended his decision to email rather than call players to tell them they hadn’t made the United States men’s national team’s final World Cup squad.
“The players (that) didn’t make the roster, they don’t want to hear me apologize,” Pochettino said, according to The Guardian’s Pablo Iglesias Maurer. “I care. Do you know why I care? For two weeks, I did not sleep. And even today, I cannot enjoy the 26 guys in front of me because I am still thinking about guys that are out. That is to care. If I call (the players I cut), it is about myself. If I call, I say, ‘I am very human about calling and giving an explanation.’
“Come on,” the head coach added. “That is bullshit.”