Meet Emma Hayes, the Next USWNT Manager

Back in 2022, Chelsea FC Women's coach Emma Hayes sat down with Rog to discuss her professional arc and connection to America and the USWNT.
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[@meninblazers]

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[@soccerisabritishword6585]

Us Chelsea fans will absolutely miss you! But, as a US Chelsea fan, I'm over the moon that you'll be coaching our women!! IN EMMA WE TRUST!

[@dawnjukes8432]

We missing Emma already, but I'm sure you will look after her... She's strict and fair, she will not be bullied into naming her US squad no matter how old the players are. She's been looking at players in America and Americans beyond. She knows who's who, what part the players can bring to the team she picks... In Emma We Trust.. Chelsea champions.. Good luck Emma... Xx

[@jcichon39]

This woman should be the new USWNT coach!!!

[@johnsummers9660]

She is!

[@meninblazers]

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[@meninblazers]

Not quiiiiite confirmed

[@marksoliva2332]

This comment aged...perfectly 😄 🤣 😂 Because it's looking more and more like she is gonna be!

[@soccerisabritishword6585]

@@meninblazers Chelsea already mentioned her leaving on the site, and I doubt she'd leave for a step down role! We'll surely miss her at Kingsmeadow, but the USWNT is gonna love her! Wishing and praying for nothing but the best for her as our new coach!

[@Zhenn9413]

Oh Emma Hayes. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Welcome to the vipers den that is US soccer. Please shine your light and bring us back to our glory!

[@hahafalseflag5090]

Its's crazy how you never know what a manager has been through or how much work they've done to get where they are.. Emma has put in the work..

[@its__VP]

Emma Hayes is such a inspiration! She is truly a woman of class and I could not be more excited that she will be managing our USWNT. I don't expect us to win right away but I know she's going to rebuild one hell of a team. Seriously, can not wait for the quality football that will come from the USWNT in the coming years.

[@lexkanyima2195]

Emma will be one of the GOATS

[@nicolethomson7048]

She will expect to win, we are going to miss her , you have gold a no nonsense powerhouse. 2:37

[@Edwardianschool]

Roger scoops again!!! Excellent interview. Think I’m gonna watch it again 😊

[@faceymagee1283]

Emma is a AMAZING female coach and human!!!! She is the best coach 🎉.

[@willcav]

this is a light the USWNT needs, a brilliant brain of the game that can see layers far beyond most. I am beyond excited. be patient and ‘trust the process’

[@Art-Wise]

Gotta love Emma Hayes. Can't wait to see her team gel together for her and each other!

[@meninblazers]

If this happens… what a hire from US Soccer

[@faceymagee1283]

Rog your still my favorite interviewer ❤️

[@beefheadmeatdonkey]

Beautiful interview! Cant wait for the next USWNT doc to come out with this icon on the sideline.

[@rasclotify]

Arsenal is prob BEYOND happy about this, they can finally win the league after a huge almost but not quite era that Emma definitely played a role in. Sad for Chelsea players & fans. SUPER excited for USWNT, NEW CHAPTER, LFG! (if it's true!) Excited for Women's Football in general because these kind of dramatic shifts that rock the narrative is what keeps the game exciting!

[@taraenid7434]

ok USWNT no more excuses. Don't muck it up. Welcome back Emma !!

[@jorgevelasquez9955]

Rog...you are the absolute best with these interviews. Your love of he game and knowledge of your guest history is amazing. Thank you for letting us watch you shine ! Maybe you can get Emma back for another interview now that she is head coach of Team USA.

[@EphSBGGSO]

“Keep with the process!” Shades of Nick Saban.

[@violin245]

Utd fan so have not been big on Hayes but if she comes to USA I’ll be the biggest Hayes fan of all time

[@meninblazers]

What an incredible hire this could be…

[@misterc5783]

Wonderful humility throughout.

[@villanella]

emma hayes is such a humble, intelligent and brilliant person. you just can not not live her. and that sentence, only a woman can feel guilt when she is awarded.. well that is sooo true. i am really sad that she will leave chelsea, but i am looking forward what she will achieve with the uswnt

[@MedFaisal]

The goat Emma 🙌

[@theeditmaster824]

I like the way how she coach her players , she correct and direct the players in the fly , she step up , I don’t like coaches that they seat en the beach and just keep watching the game without correct the players when then take wrong decisions I like Emma as coach for USA

[@webmandman]

woah, its not that simple. sometimes players need to have their own time to evaluate their own mistakes. and I would say its better to teach how to make corrections on their own then to be told what to do every single time. so its like a little of both - on their own and from the coach.

[@kizzyfarrell6156]

Emma hayes is the GOAT

[@lupoa]

I love listening to Emma she's so interligent.

[@nicholassmith4584]

I wanted her for 🇯🇲 men's national coach for over a year now.

[@RJ420NL]

Very promising.

[@nxt1990]

Very likeable woman

[@Art-Wise]

I'd like to add... it's sad that so many comments are self-aggrandizing. Why can't you just enjoy the process and trust those who do the hiring, let alone trust Emma Hayes as the new coach? Shame on you.

[@centenoj85]

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[@neovarleydownes9109]

I love Emma Hayes and she has given everything to that CFCW Squad and is no doubt THE best Woman Football Manager about, but.... This is the huge difference between the Men's Game and the Woman's Game. Men live for Football and will always put Football first...well, that and money... and sort out Family, to make them happy, second. Where as with the Women and quite rightly so, they will put Family first, then the Football. I wish her success and happiness with the USA set-up and I have no doubt she WILL do very well and that CFC Women's team is certainly going to miss her. It will be interesting to see who will follow in her footsteps and will they be able to follow? At this time, I doubt it. It also remains to see who will follow her out of the door. 8 contacts, including Sam Kerr's, are nearly up, with more or less the whole Squad contracts up in the 2024/2025 Season. Who will Stay? Interesting times for CFC....for the Women and the Men.

[@eatthebigonefirst8031]

Well she will be a millionaire now making that USWNT money.

[@cliterally1791]

bruh I'm in shock

[@meninblazers]

Bruh I’m shooketh

[@derrickhughes1863]

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[@meninblazers]

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[@mlsarchitect]

Emma, it's not because you're a woman that you feel guilty about winning the best coach award. I feel for Luis Cortes.

[@sushipizza4439]

She needs to swap with GGG now

[@hahafalseflag5090]

its crazy to think that the women in the United States got more respect than the female players around europe..The women in Europe are so good that I just can't imagine it. I don't get it because majority of America can careless about soccer.

[@AKUNJIG]

Well the City where her Father went to called Atlanta would change your mind.

[@TheRumblewagon]

I hope Emma gets rid of any prima donnas on the USWNT team and puts together a group that wants to play. There were too many of those prima donnas during Vlatko's tenure.

[@Ralph_Smith0724]

*Say, Emma, when you mention America, what country you are referring to? There are 35 countries on the American Continent. I think you are referring to the U.S.*

[@sarahr3076]

These kinds of comments are getting really annoying. Canadians don't say they live in America and don't consider themselves Americans unless they have US citizenship. Don't think you're helping Canadians with this type of comment. To a lot of them, being called American or told they live in America is practically an insult, not something considerate. (I lived in Canada, btw.) Schools in both Canada and the US teach a 7-continent model in which there is no single continent just called America, so Canadians think that they live on the continent of North America, not America.

[@kenm6065]

Yes but the only one that has the word America in it's NAME is the United States of America. Which you conveniently dropped the A when you said US. 😂 Trolls.

[@Delboy0]

What is ironic is Emma Hayes was bemoaning how English FA mistakes in the grassroots of football in the women’s game, have turned women’s football from a diverse and working class game to a sport for middle class white girls. So to go to America where football is a upper middle class sport due to the pay to play system seems like betrayal of her working class principles

[@dolphmanity]

Once Morgan and Sauerbrun are pushed out, at least 75% of the USWNT is going to be black and hispanic. What are you talking about?

[@Delboy0]

@@dolphmanity but the team is not class diverse.

[@beachliving3127]

@@dolphmanity Don’t forget to add Kelly O’Hara to the mix as well.

[@dolphmanity]

@@Delboy0 Fishel, Smith, Swanson, Macario, Rodman, Shaw, Thompson, Baceras, Sanchez, Huerta, Dunn, Girma, Cook, Demelo, Krueger, Williams, and Vignola. VS. Horan, Lavelle, Moultrie, Fox, Coffey, and Murphy. The future seems pretty diverse to me.

[@Delboy0]

@@dolphmanitynone of the players you mentioned are from working class backgrounds

[@Jo.Math.Richar]

Don’t go to the US, it’s a lazy way for the USWNT to improve their game as they catch up to the European standard. Stay at home and improve the WSL!

[@anthonynavarrete2691]

It’s kinda too late for that. It’s all but official

[@fieldysgrl98]

hasn't won champions league and wont.

[@Delboy0]

She is a good coach but does she has the technical players to be successful with the USWNT. The problem with woman’s soccer comes from how girls are coached as kids, where there is too much emphasis on athleticism and speed and not enough on technical and tactical play. You can’t coach that into adults. She could be making the biggest mistake of her career, because USWNT fan expect the results they were getting, when they were the only fully funded female program. There has been a massive paradigm shift in women’s football with Europe professionalising and having input from the men’s game. He has joined the USWNT when they are permanent decline

[@dolphmanity]

The only paradigm shift is Spain. The USWNT beat down Sweden and the Netherlands like they've always beat down Sweden and The Netherlands. Nothing has changed. They're technical ability has not improved. You are ignorant if you think otherwise.

[@mosijahi3096]

You sound like a lot of people who feel the same way- it’s the Mandala Effect she’s going into this to win and further her career as a coach. Secondly contrary to popular belief the females in US are taught technical skills at an early age, there are thousands of talented girls and women in the US to choose from. We’ll have to see how this works out, hopefully the US women with play with a chip on their shoulder and prove all the nay sayers wrong, it’s them against the world.

[@lexkanyima2195]

This is not about men

[@user-xv2kk5fe5b]

She would not have taken the job if she didn't believe 100% she could make the USA the best team in the world. And please America, stop calling it soccer. The sport is called football.

[@johntell4333]

Meet Emma Hayes, a once highly respected and successful world renowned football coach, but soon to ruin her reputation by coaching the most spoiled, entitled, and toxic bunch of individuals in the world 😂

[@StewartCarlson]

THIS INTERVIEW IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! ❤🤍💙 As a passionate, verging on obsessive (the healthy kind,) futbol/football/soccer fan, I couldn't be more happy to hear this interview! To hear more of the personality coming in to a team you treasure, and value, and dream of watching only build upwards, so that your future daughters and nieces can learn and feel proud is indescribably reassuring! It's reassuring to see someone who has such a beautiful, ethical, comprehensive, competitive mindset. Not to mention shes simply a BAD ASS WOMAN!!!!!!!

[@JuicyJonesHQ]

I'm still in shock that she's coming here. It's unbelievably good news.

[@meninblazers]

I’m shooketh with you

[@ghettofab99]

USWNT needs the GRIT and NASTINESS brought back! To soft when playing! Let’s gooooooooo💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸⚽️⚽️⚽️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸