The U.S. Soccer Federation’s board of administrators has authorized the hiring of Chelsea supervisor Emma Hayes as the brand new head coach of the U.S. ladies’s nationwide staff, a supply with information of the vote confirmed to ESPN on Saturday.
A proper announcement of her hiring as Vlatko Andonovski’s alternative is about to observe.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported the board’s approval.
Sources additionally confirmed a report from The Athletic that Hayes’ contract will probably be a file for ladies’s soccer. A supply confirmed to ESPN that making Hayes’ wage equal to that of U.S. males’s nationwide staff supervisor Gregg Berhalter was going to be mentioned on the board assembly.
Hayes is broadly considered as one of many high managers within the ladies’s recreation.
The USWNT has been coached on an interim foundation by Twila Kilgore since Andonovski departed the position after the staff recorded its earliest exit on the Girls’s World Cup, with a spherical of 16 defeat to Sweden.
Hayes is to go away Chelsea on the finish of the Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL) season “to pursue a brand new alternative outdoors the WSL and membership soccer,” the membership introduced in a press release following a 6-0 thrashing of Aston Villa on Saturday.
The expectation is that Hayes will juggle the USWNT and Chelsea jobs till the conclusion of the WSL season. Whereas the plan is for Hayes to hitch the USWNT throughout worldwide home windows, there are potential conflicts.
The Concacaf W Gold Cup is about to run from Feb. 20 till March 10, 2024, a interval wherein Chelsea has league matches towards Manchester Metropolis on Feb. 18 and Leicester Metropolis on March 3. There are additionally questions on how juggling two jobs would influence the USWNT’s preparations for the 2024 Summer time Olympics.
The London native started her managerial profession in 2001 with Lengthy Island Girl Riders of the U.S.-based USL W-League. She later coached with Iona School from 2003-06, after which moved to the skilled ranks with Arsenal as an assistant from 2006-08. Her first head-coaching position was with the Chicago Purple Stars of Girls’s Skilled Soccer — the precursor to the NWSL — from 2008-10, which was adopted by a transfer to Chelsea in 2012, the place she has been since.
In her time with the West London membership, Hayes led Chelsea to 6 WSL titles, 5 ladies’s FA Cups and two FA Girls’s League Cups.
“Given every thing she has contributed to Chelsea in over a decade with the membership, and the legacy she leaves behind, we’d by no means stand in her approach when she felt it was the correct time to pursue a brand new problem,” Chelsea co-sporting administrators Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley stated in a press release.
“There will probably be loads of time to have fun Emma’s many achievements on the membership and to provide her the farewell she deserves, however for now, as she all the time has been, Emma will probably be solely targeted on making this season as profitable as potential for Chelsea.”
Chelsea had six completely different gamers on the scoresheet as they hammered Aston Villa to go high of the desk on 13 factors after 5 video games, three forward of second-placed Man Metropolis, who face Arsenal on Sunday.
Hayes been named FA WSL Supervisor of the Season six instances and the League Managers Affiliation Supervisor of the Yr 5 instances. She was named Greatest Soccer Coach by FIFA in 2021.
Data from Reuters contributed to this report
