Mauricio Pochettino is discovering his new world. Dreaming of the World Cup as a host nation. Joking about President Trump and the long wait for his green card.
Calling it soccer, and supposing how the USA could come to dominate the sport inside the next decade with its new national training centre in Atlanta about to open and Lionel Messi supercharging interest in the MLS.
Preparing for a CONCACAF Nations League semi final against Panama, in Los Angeles, on Thursday, and refusing to dwell on whether he might have been plotting England's qualifiers instead, if events had unfolded differently.