Just nine months from the start of the 2026 World Cup, U.S. men's national team coach Mauricio Pochettino is still figuring things out.

Before slumping to a 2-0 loss on Saturday to South Korea in a friendly that featured his 14th different starting XI in 17 games, the USMNT coach was blunt about his willingness to extend his tinkering for -- at least according to him -- one more international window.

"[This] is a camp that I think is going to be the last camp to have the possibility for us to see players, new faces," Pochettino said in late August when the roster was announced. "No one has their place [assured], and that is my message for everyone that you need to fight, need to fight because that is an open system.

"If we want to be a team [that's] really competitive, we cannot nom

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