The USMNT won its first game under new coach Mauricio Pochettino, defeating Panama 2-0 in a friendly in front of a crowd of 20,239 at Q2 Stadium in Austin. The win on Saturday comes as the WALL STREET JOURNAL reports that before it recruited Pochettino, U.S. Soccer “went out and recruited people to pay for him.” The “biggest donation” came from the hedge-fund billionaire and Citadel founder Ken Griffin, who “agreed to make a multimillion-dollar gift to coax the biggest name available.” Pochettino is “widely reported to be earning some” $3M a year (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 10/13).
USMNT wins first game under Pochettino
