Video taking off 11x its usual first day

Pochettino's tearful USA goodbye puts people before the job

Guardian Football's press-conference Short captures the difficulty of leaving, with two USA matches still to come before his Manchester United move.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 44,499 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (3,978).

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Mauricio Pochettino wipes his eye at the U.S. Soccer press table and takes a moment before finding the words. Manchester United is his destination, but the people he is leaving are the subject of Guardian Football's farewell clip.

"The human being is in front of everything," he says. He describes leaving as one of the most difficult decisions of his career, pauses again, then thanks the federation and the country for their transparency and collaboration. According to the video's description, he will depart after the USA's next two games.

The Short drew roughly 31,000 views in its first 12 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for the format. Its comment section was also considerably busier than a typical first day.

Pochettino knows the Premier League from spells managing Southampton, Tottenham and Chelsea. Yet this excerpt is about the difficulty of saying goodbye, rather than his plans for another English club.

Elsewhere on Guardian Football, the appointment gets a more practical examination. In "Why Pochettino won't be an overnight success | Football Weekly", Robyn Cowen joins Lars Sivertsen, Paul Watson and Jacob Steinberg to consider the task awaiting him at United.

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