{"id":172757,"date":"2025-10-01T12:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172757\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:21:10","slug":"emma-hayes-united-states-head-coach-inducted-into-national-football-museums-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172757\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Hayes: United States head coach inducted into National Football Museum’s Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

United States boss Emma Hayes says working in international football is like “becoming a grandparent” as managers only spend short periods of time with their players.<\/p>\n

The former Chelsea manager, speaking after being inducted into the National Football Museum’s Hall of Fame, said managing the US has been “thoroughly enjoyable”.<\/p>\n

“It has been incredible, it really has,” said the 48-year-old. “It is like becoming a grandparent, international football. You don’t get to see them [the players] all of the time and you send them back to their parents – or their clubs – at the end of that period.<\/p>\n

“I’ve really enjoyed getting to know a new set of players and working with a nation that have been really dear to me and a massive part of my development.”<\/p>\n

Hayes added that she felt she had been “ready” for a move away from club football after a career that saw her win seven league titles with Chelsea, and said her new role allows her to “zoom out” and use her “strategic thinking” to focus on long-term solutions.<\/p>\n

Just under three months after taking over as US manager, she led the side to a gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They also reached the final of the invitational SheBelieves Cup in February, although they were beaten 2-1 by Japan.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t think the transition would be what it is. It’s been thoroughly enjoyable and I’m enjoying life as an international coach,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I always felt as a club coach you’ve just got to go every three days and it’s just the next game. To have a little bit longer to think about a course to winning and how to put in place the best practices, I feel like having that time has freed me up to develop another part of myself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States boss Emma Hayes says working in international football is like “becoming a grandparent” as managers only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-172757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}