LONDON (AP) — Mauricio Pochettino has outlined his determination to one day win the Premier League and Champions League.
The Argentine coach is preparing to lead the United States at its home World Cup next year. But his long-term ambitions are to return to elite European club soccer.
In an interview with the BBC, the former Tottenham, Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea manager said he wants to work in England's top flight again.
“The Premier League is the best in the world. Of course I miss it. I am so happy in the USA but I am always thinking about returning one day,” Pochettino said. “It is the most competitive league and of course I would love to come back again.”
The U.S. was handed a favorable draw for the World Cup, which will be co-hosted by Canada and Mexico. Pochettino’s team would at least expect to advance out of its group, which includes Paraguay, Australia and the winner of a European playoff between Turkey, Slovakia, Kosovo and Romania.
Asked if he could achieve one more thing in his career, Pochettino's answer was “to win the Premier League and the Champions League.”
“We were so close in Tottenham. I want to achieve this. I am still young, I have the energy, experience and motivation to try in the future,” he said.
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U.S. team coach Mauricio Pochettino arrives to attend the draw for the 2026 soccer World Cup at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
U.S. team coach Mauricio Pochettino attends the draw for the 2026 soccer World Cup at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (Dan Mullan/Pool Photo via AP)
TRONDHEIM, Norway (AP) — Olympic cross country skiing champion Jessie Diggins of the United States earned her 30th World Cup victory by winning a 20-kilometer skiathlon on Saturday.
The 34-year-old Diggins has won three Olympic medals, including the first cross country Olympic gold medal for the United States with teammate Kikkan Randall in 2018. She is planning to retire at the end of the 2025-26 season.
The Minnesota native started her final season last week in Ruka, Finland.
She’ll compete in the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in February and end her career at the Stifel Lake Placid Finals in Lake Placid, New York, from March 19-22.
Diggins first made the national team in 2011. She won her first individual World Cup race in 2016. Her upcoming Olympic trip will be her fourth.
Diggins has won three FIS crystal globes and has seven world championship medals.
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United States' Jessie Diggins, center, winner of a women's cross-country 20km Skiathlon Classic/Free celebrates with second-placed Norway's Heidi Weng, left, and third-placed Sweden's Ebba Andersson during the Cross-Country skiing World Cup, in Trondheim, Norway, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Geir Olsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
United States' Jessie Diggins competes in a women's cross-country 20km Skiathlon Classic/Free during the Cross-Country skiing World Cup races in Trondheim, Norway, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Geir Olsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
United States' Jessie Diggins crosses the finish line to win a women's cross-country 20km Skiathlon Classic/Free during the Cross-Country skiing World Cup races in Trondheim, Norway, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Geir Olsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
United States' Jessie Diggins celebrates winning a women's cross-country 20km Skiathlon Classic/Free during the Cross-Country skiing World Cup races in Trondheim, Norway, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Geir Olsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
