Emma Hayes revealed Sir Alex Ferguson has given her recommendation after she was confirmed as the brand new United States boss.
Former Manchester United supervisor Ferguson known as the outgoing Chelsea boss final week after it was introduced she was leaving the membership.
Hayes will end the 2023-24 Girls’s Tremendous League marketing campaign with the Blues earlier than she joins the USA girls’s squad two months earlier than the Olympics in Paris.
She stated: “We had a chat final week, he rang me, however I used to be in the midst of speaking to Poch (Mauricio Pochettino) so I used to be torn. Sadly I needed to inform Poch to attend. There’s not many individuals you inform Poch to attend for however I did say to him it was Sir Alex.
“He calls me infrequently so I wasn’t stunned. Something he says to me I all the time take with such pleasure. He’s a legend of the sport and somebody whose opinion I worth and he has a love of America.
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Hayes says Sir Alex Ferguson and her mentioned legacy and leaving on the prime
“We talked a bit bit about that, a bit bit about legacy, a bit bit about leaving on the prime. So there have been smart phrases from him. I am certain it will not be the final telephone name I get from him this season.”
Hayes, who acquired the Chelsea job in the summertime of 2012, has led the membership to 6 WSL titles, 5 FA Cups and two League Cups, a haul that includes two league and FA Cup doubles and one home treble, whereas they have been Champions League runners-up in 2021.
She is a six-time WSL supervisor of the season and was named FIFA’s girls’s supervisor of the yr in 2021.
Evaluation: Hayes a pioneer in English girls’s soccer
Sky Sports activities’ Charlotte Marsh:
“It’s uncommon for a supervisor to announce their departure from a membership so early within the season – however Emma Hayes has all the time damaged the mould.
“In lots of methods, seven months is required to attempt to comprehend simply how massive of an influence Hayes has not solely had at Chelsea, however throughout girls’s soccer in England as a complete.
“Her numbers for the Blues communicate for themselves – trophies upon information upon titles. Would not it’s the top to the fairy story if she bowed out by successful the membership their first Champions League title?
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Lianne Sanderson says Emma Hayes’ exit shall be an enormous loss for Chelsea, however a Champions League victory could be the right send-off forward of her departure for the USA.
“By remodeling Chelsea into the ladies’s powerhouse they’re, Hayes has championed and pioneered the requirements that your entire recreation is now being held to.
“Participant well being throughout the board, services, coaching strategies, staffing, transfers – you’ll be able to see Hayes’ affect in every space. Girls’s soccer would merely not be the place it’s with out her lighting the best way.
“She has been on the forefront of the expansion of ladies’s soccer, a voice others flip to for opinion and path on the largest points dealing with not solely the sport, however girls general.
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After the announcement of Emma Hayes’ departure from Chelsea on the finish of the season, we glance again on a few of her greatest moments from the 2022-2023 season.
“Hayes too has proven that this could all be achieved as a mom, as somebody who battles in opposition to well being points and private loss similar to us all. None of it has impacted her capacity to do her job efficiently and displays the human factor that may generally be lacking in soccer.
“Her transfer to the USA gives her a brand new problem and one which shall be extremely thrilling to look at unfold.
“However for now, the tributes and goodbyes will come flooding in over the approaching months and rightly so. Chelsea and ladies’s soccer have rather a lot to thank Hayes for.”