The CT of the American national team responded without turns to the Milan striker after the self-exclusion from the Gold Cup: “I decide who needs rest, I’m not a mannequin”
Botta and response in the USA between the captain of the national team and stripes Christian Pulisic and the technical commissioner Mauricio Pochettino. A few hours after the debut in Gold Cup (this night against Trinidad and Tobago), Pochettino replied to Milan’s striker, explaining why he refused the Rossoneri’s request to play the two friendly friendships to the tournament (lost against Switzerland and Turkey) but to skip the tournament itself. To the microphones of the CBS, Pulisic had declared that he needed rest after playing almost 120 games in the last two years between Milan and National and that he had not fully understood the coach’s no
“I’m not a mannequin”
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“I respect it and understand it, but I don’t need to understand our decision. I have my role, I am 53 years old and so much experience in football”. Pochettino has made things clear: “The players must not understand or not understand. The players have to listen and follow our plan. It is not up to them. It is up to us to evaluate whether a player needs rest or not, because we have a group of professionals, sports doctors and athletic preparers of the Federation, who can evaluate it”. The technician then closed the topic with a not too veiled arrow towards the player and the American press: “You say that he is our best player. Yes, he is a good player, of course, but he must prove it. If he plays well and if he is the best it is normal that he has a place in the national team. But it is not that if he says he wants to play, to want to do this or that then it must be so. I have signed my contract with the federation. mannequin “.