I truly cannot stand Poch. How can you say these two paragraphs back-to-back and not recognize the inherent contradiction?

Any coach can say tickets are expensive. We know. My responsibility preparing a team for the World Cup is how [external issues] affect the dynamic of the group. A job comes with [other] responsibilities that if you don’t accept, step out. If I stay in and speak, there’s hypocrisy, populism, contradiction: I don’t know what to call it.

“Football can create affection, love, happiness; it unites, brings people together, opens minds. That’s our responsibility, not to create more conflict, hatred. Of course when there’s injustice it hurts. Everyone sees. How do we effect change? Through football’s values, principles. It’s easy to denounce, separate; harder to unite, construct, rather than distance us [from each other].