The new USWNT coach, who rose to prominence with Chelsea, has a limited window to prepare her team for the Paris Olympics and restore its gold standard.
US women’s national team coach Emma Hayes points during the first half of a soccer friendly against South Lorea on Saturday, June 1, 2024, in Commerce City, Colo. As if things haven’t been frenetic enough for Emma Hayes in her short time – five weeks max – on the ground in this country to get the U.S.
To add further perspective, Hayes and Klopp – who is beginning his own sabbatical from Liverpool – are friends. In, Hayes said when they talked after she took the U.S. job, they discussed “getting to the end of our careers with our clubs, and how difficult it is, how intense it is. You have to deliver an awful lot on and off the pitch in our positions. And it takes its toll and we just gave words of encouragement to each other, to be honest. Lots of support.
Hayes, 47, was hired by the federation in November with the understanding she would finish the season with Chelsea, where she won her seventh Women’s Super League title and fifth in a row – and, among other achievements, was honored with the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire – before departing for her next adventure. She consulted with interim U.S. coach and current assistant Twila Kilgore regularly while managing her own club, and finally assumed hands-on control around the end of May.
And even if the rest of the world has caught up, history and legacy and those four stars above the crest send a message: The standard is still the standard.
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