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And that's why we wanted to mention that at the top of our show.

All right, it is January. So let's get two at 2025 is in full swing.

So is Mauricio Pochitino's year with the U.S. in his first ever January camp for the U.S.

men's national team's friendlies this month against Venezuela on the 18th and against Costa Rica on the 22nd of the same month.

Now, the 24-man roster features 23 MLS players.

Botetino sat down with our Lizzie Becherano

to discuss what he thinks will be the most important element

moving forward.

You spoke earlier about one of the biggest challenges is the mentality and the belief to win.

Why would you consider that the biggest challenge?

Because in the sport, it's the biggest challenge.

If you listen to all the coaches when go to the different country, different national team or different clubs,

always the coaches talk about mentality, about the challenge about to create, you know, that winning mentality, the belief.

And that is the true, the true. If we are capable to identify the player, the 26 or 30 players that share the same mentality,

I think we can build a very good group of players with the possibility to compete in our

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