us soccer's reported agreement to hire Mauricio pochettino as its next men's head coach is set to be finalized imminently according to a new story news broke last month that pochettino most recently the manager of Chelsea would coach the USA but no official announcement has been made since however World Soccer talk has reported that US soccer executives are traveling to Barcelona today to get the deal over the line with an announcement expected within the next 48 hours the site added that poao will film a short video to be released with the official announcement as well as finalizing the necessary contracts pochettino is not yet in place for the team's friendlies versus Canada and New Zealand this International break so interim coach Mikey varis is leading the squad however it appears that the poino hire is set to be finalized pochettino 52 has Top Flight experience with Chelsea Spurs Southampton espanol and PSG whom he won three trophies with the Argentine also has some familiarity with us soccer sporting director Matt Crocker as the pair crossed paths in 2013 while pochettino was beginning as southampton's manager Crocker was running the academy pochettino's potential move to US soccer has also been cheered on by male sport columnist Tim Howard who called him perfect for the USA job the USA will face Canada on Saturday September 6th before playing New Zealand on September 10th