The national team of the United States of America beat Paraguay in the match of the first round of the 2026 World Championship in Los Angeles.

USA - Paraguay 4:1 Video of goals and review of match 12. 06. 2026 After the end of the game, the head coach of the “Zirkovo-Smugasti” Mauricio Pochettino commented on the performance of the powerful team.

“Everything went well, because we worked on everything as we had planned.. We achieved success against such a good team as Paraguay, against which it is always important to lose.

Now we have to find out if we can repeat such a performance at a later tournament. I’m already writing to the team, because I think that after such a match we will enjoy the sweetness of the fans in America.

Before the start of the tournament, I would very much like to work with the whole team of Yakomoga for a long time, otherwise we did not have such ability. We needed to get to know each other right away, to understand what we were looking for. And there were more than a few days left in us to collect the Gravians at once.

This is how it works in teams: we can only select gravers, but we cannot train them. And during such tournaments as the world championship, you have three or four hours for major preparation, and that is actually one hour, if you can train properly.

Since recently, having defeated Paraguay and Uruguay in friendly matches, the team has begun to formulate a clear identity with the characteristics that we want from it..

Then there will be an important birch tree; the furnishings were not ideal, since many of the graves were not available. We are deeply dependent on the form of our footballers, and so, birch is always a good month. We played against Portugal and Belgium and lost.

Then there were two very important matches: Senegal, the champion of Africa, and Germany, which will always be a contender for victory at the world championship. The performance that we showed in both matches, giving us faith in those that we can play well today,” said the Argentine footballer.

The upcoming match of the US national team will be played against Australia.