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Chelsea boss Emma Hayes has been named the new manager of the United States women\u2019s national team and will take charge when the Women\u2019s Super League season ends in May.<\/p>\n
The Blues announced on Saturday that Hayes would pursue \u201ca new opportunity outside the WSL and club football\u201d.<\/p>\n
Hayes, 47, who started her managerial career in the USA, has won 13 major trophies since joining the WSL in 2012.<\/p>\n
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She said her feelings for the US team and the country \u201crun deep\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a huge honour to be given the opportunity to coach the most incredible team in world football history,\u201d Hayes added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve dreamed about coaching the USA for a long time so to get this opportunity is a dream come true.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know there is work to do to achieve our goals of winning consistently at the highest levels.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo get there, it will require dedication, devotion and collaboration from the players, staff and everyone at the US Soccer Federation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hayes will be the highest-paid women\u2019s football coach in the world.\u202f<\/p>\n
US Soccer president Cindy Parlow called Hayes a \u201cfantastic leader\u201d and a \u201cworld-class coach who sets high standards for herself and for everyone around her\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has tremendous energy and an insatiable will to win,\u201d said Parlow.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer experience in the USA, her understanding of our soccer landscape and her appreciation of what it means to coach this team makes her a natural fit for this role and we could not be more pleased to have her leading our Women\u2019s National Team forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hayes will take over when she finishes with Chelsea, with the WSL season ending on 18 May 2024, while the Women\u2019s Champions League final takes place on 25 May.<\/p>\n
She will then join up with the national side two months before the start of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, which begin on 26 July 2024.<\/p>\n
Interim head coach Twila Kilgore will continue in her role and then join Hayes\u2019 staff full-time as an assistant coach.<\/p>\n
Hayes has won six WSL titles with Chelsea, including the past four in a row, while she has also won five FA Cups and the League Cup twice.<\/p>\n
She was inducted into the\u00a0WSL Hall of Fame in 2021.<\/p>\n
The USA are looking to rebuild after suffering their earliest exit at a World Cup \u2013\u00a0going out of the 2023 edition in the last 16.<\/p>\n
They won back-to-back tournaments in\u00a02015\u00a0and\u00a02019\u00a0under head coach Jill Ellis, but Vlatko Andonovski was unable to continue the USA\u2019s dominance and subsequently resigned after the tournament in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Hayes\u2019 first managerial post came between 2001 and 2003 with Long Island Lady Riders in the United States, before a spell with Iona College.<\/p>\n
Arsenal came calling in 2006 when Hayes took up the post of assistant manager to Vik Akers before she returned to America in 2008 to manage Chicago Red Stars.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand how important this team is to the people and culture of the United States, not just the soccer community,\u201d said Hayes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI fully understand the place this team has in US society. I\u2019ve lived it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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