article_snippet.sent: Mauricio Pochettino said: ‘When players get players first call-up, players try to show players are good enough and try to impress the national manager, and because players are over-motivated players expend a lot of energy.
article_snippet.sent: ‘When you come back to the team, the consequence is that for two or three weeks you are a little bit down.
article_snippet.sent: It is normal and this happened at Southampton too.
article_snippet.sent: The performance wasn’t good.
article_snippet.sent: Because we’d spent a lot of energy and it was difficult to keep we focus on the normal life.
article_snippet.sent: I remember my first call-up for Argentina against Holland.
article_snippet.sent: I was up on a cloud for a month after a cloud because it was unbelievable to play for the national team.
article_snippet.sent: I’d been away for 15 days with the national team
article_snippet.sent: You feel like a superstar
article_snippet.sent: This season was one of transition.