{"id":186727,"date":"2024-06-04T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T16:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/04\/mauricio-pochettino-breaks-silence-after-chelsea-exit\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T16:29:03","slug":"mauricio-pochettino-breaks-silence-after-chelsea-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/04\/mauricio-pochettino-breaks-silence-after-chelsea-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauricio Pochettino breaks silence after Chelsea exit \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Mauricio Pochettino has spoken for the first time after leaving Chelsea ahead of his return to Stamford Bridge on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Argentine departed the club by mutual consent at the end of the 2023\/24 season, making way for new head coach Enzo Maresca \u2013 who was officially announced as his successor on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino\u2019s time on the touchline at Stamford Bridge is not yet over though, as he will return on Sunday to manage the World XI Soccer Aid team. Despite his Chelsea exit,\u00a0Pochettino\u00a0has remained firm on his commitment to the charity game, leading a squad that includes stars such as Eden Hazard and Usain Bolt.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to\u00a0social media\u00a0for the first time since leaving the club, Pochettino spoke of his surprise exit, saying: \u201cI am so pleased with the level the team reached and the way the players and staff have all worked so hard to increase their standards, they deserve great credit and I hope you felt that too in how they performed on the pitch.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/01hzhf4s9hk5afngr13x.jpg\" alt=\"Enzo Maresca\" title=\"Enzo Maresca\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Enzo Maresca will lead Chelsea during the 2024\/25 season \/ Copa\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>\u201cWe know there have been ups and downs but we always believed in this team and that we would arrive at a consistent level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the experiences of this season and the big improvement we saw, I hope will only make the players stronger for the future. It has been a pleasure to work with them all and we appreciate the strong bonds we created in this last year together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to wish all of you the best for next season and beyond. It is great that we have the chance to return to Stamford Bridge so soon with Soccer Aid this weekend and I hope that we get to see some of you there too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauricio Pochettino has spoken for the first time after leaving Chelsea ahead of his return to Stamford Bridge on Sunday. The Argentine departed the club by mutual consent at the end of the 2023\/24 season, making way for new head coach Enzo Maresca \u2013 who was officially announced as his successor on Monday. Pochettino\u2019s time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mauricio Pochettino breaks silence after Chelsea exit \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/04\/mauricio-pochettino-breaks-silence-after-chelsea-exit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mauricio Pochettino breaks silence after Chelsea exit \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mauricio Pochettino has spoken for the first time after leaving Chelsea ahead of his return to Stamford Bridge on Sunday. 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