Noahkai Banks is now off of the U.S. Men’s National Team’s radar and head coach Mauricio Pochettino didn’t sugarcoat his expectations for dual-nationals in the future.Banks’ one-time international switch to Germany was approved by FIFA on Friday night, ending a lengthy saga between the two national teams and the 19-year-old player. Previously called into a USMNT camp in September 2025, Banks has not made his senior debut for either country to date despite continuing his club football at Bundesliga side Augsburg. Germany Under-21 head coach Antonio Di Salvo called Banks up to his roster for upcoming UEFA Qualifiers and the Hawaii-born defender responded by completing his one-time switch to the program in order to play in Di Salvo’s squad. One week until his USMNT squad reconvenes for the first time post-World Cup, Pochettino gave his thoughts on Banks’ decision. “He called us,” Pochettino told reporters at Yankee Stadium on Friday ahead of the Hudson River Derby between the New York Red Bulls and NYCFC. “He said, ‘I decided to go for Germany’. Yes, that is a situation that we need to deal with. We want players that show commitment, but commitment is not 50 percent; it’s 200 percent.“He was honest because every time that we contacted him with the possibility to join us, he said, ‘No, still in doubt, I don’t know if I want to pick the USA or Germany’,” Pochettino added. “He was honest and we want players with no doubt. We want players who commit and are desperate to play for the badge and play for us.”Banks may have been one of the top dual-nationals that U.S. Soccer was chasing, but he certainly won’t be the last. Folarin Balogun, Malik Tillman, Sergino Dest, and Yunus Musah were just a handful of dual-nationals that have chosen the United States over other countries, while many more remain on the radar ahead of the 2030 FIFA World Cup. U.S. Soccer CEO and Secretary General J.T. Batson double-downed on Pochettino’s statements, stating that the federation is doing everything they can to provide a top-tier environment for American players to thrive.“We want players who want to represent their country and represent U.S. Soccer, and our job is to give them the best platform to do that,” Batson told reporters. “We know that there are millions of kids who are waking up every day in this country who are desperate to play for their national team, and it’s our job to create an environment where they can flourish.“I know that, wherever you live around the world, if you want to represent the U.S., you want to give it your all, and you’re good enough to play, we want you,” he added. “It’s our job to create an environment to be able to scout those players, be able to engage them with youth national teams, be able to provide them opportunities to play at the highest levels of the youth, and ultimately, hopefully, to represent their country.”The USMNT will officially begin their 2030 cycle on September 26 against Peru, the first of four friendlies over the two-week international break.