Mauricio Pochettino will leave the U.S. men’s national team for Manchester United after coaching two games against Haiti, U.S. Soccer announced Friday. He and his staff will stay through the end of the current camp, which includes Saturday’s Concacaf Nations League quarterfinal in Miami and Tuesday’s return leg in Cincinnati.
Pochettino had agreed in August to lead the Americans through the 2030 World Cup, The Associated Press reported. He is due to start at Manchester United on Nov. 18 under a contract of two and a half years. The club is 18th in the Premier League after 10 matches and parted ways with Michael Carrick on Thursday.
Pochettino’s final two U.S. matches
U.S. Soccer’s quarterfinal schedule lists the first leg for Saturday, Nov. 14, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern at Nu Stadium in Miami. Haiti is the designated host for that match. The Haitian federation asked Concacaf to move its home leg from Kingston, Jamaica, to the United States, citing the security situation in Haiti, according to U.S. Soccer.
The return leg is Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. Eastern at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati. Goals from the two matches count toward one aggregate score. If the teams are still level after regulation on Tuesday, they play two 15-minute periods of extra time, followed by a penalty shootout if needed.
U.S. Soccer lists truTV, Universo, HBO Max and Peacock for both games. Both matches are also on Westwood One Sports in English and Fútbol de Primera in Spanish.
Who leads the team after Tuesday
Steve Cherundolo will coach the previously scheduled December camp, which U.S. Soccer expects to draw mostly on Major League Soccer players. The federation will fold that month’s under-23 work into the senior camp. It announced Cherundolo’s assignment for the camp while laying out a separate search for the permanent head coach.
U.S. Soccer CEO JT Batson and Chief Operating Officer Dan Helfrich will lead that search with the federation’s soccer leadership, including Emma Hayes and Oguchi Onyewu. U.S. Soccer said it will consider candidates from a range of backgrounds. The announcement gave no timetable for naming the next coach.
Pochettino took the job in September 2024. The federation credits him with 21 wins, 12 losses and two draws in 35 matches heading into the Haiti series. The Americans reached the 2025 Gold Cup final and the round of 16 at this year’s World Cup. The federation says 75 players appeared for the senior team during his tenure.
