Emma Hayes, nuevo técnico de la selección femenil de EE.UU.
![Write informative laconic excerpt under 30 words in mexican spanish for news below. Do not wrap it into quotation marks or html tags. NEW YORK -- Emma Hayes smiled and laughed as she fielded questions at the head of a long conference table in a corner room three stories above bustling Madison Avenue. She wore a small U.S. Soccer pin on the left side of her light brown blazer as the only visual clue of her new role as U.S. women's national team head coach.This is the job she had dreamed of earning for more than two decades -- the biggest job in women's soccer. This is the job her late father and best friend, Sid, told her to go after as he lay on his deathbed in September -- the job Hayes discussed with Sid as if she had already obtained it, because she wanted him to leave with that memory.The USWNT job is also an international coaching position, markedly different from the club setting Hayes has operated in throughout her career. Hayes' 12-year tenure as the head coach at Chelsea is what made her famous as one of the best managers on the planet."I'm not concerned," Hayes told a small group of reporters, including ESPN, on Thursday. "I think it's the same when anybody goes from one organization to the other. It's football -- at the end of the day, it's 11 vs. 11."• Stream on ESPN+: NWSL, LaLiga, Bundesliga & more (U.S.)Her point is valid, but how she handles the transition is among the biggest questions around her hire, in which she replaces another club coach, Vlatko Andonovski, who struggled to make the jump to the international game. Under Andonovski -- a championship-winning NWSL coach -- the U.S. women's team suffered a historically poor 2023 World Cup, winning just one game out of four en route to the club's earliest exit in a major tournament.Hayes' hire has been widely lauded as a step in the right direction for the U.S. team -- she won five straight league titles and 16 total trophies in 12 years at Chelsea. She is irrefutably among the best coaches in soccer, but she has not managed a team at the international level, where the cadence of the schedule means less time spent coaching and working with players.The professional club setting allows coaches to meticulously refine their teams daily in training and to see the results of those changes in matches every week. International soccer is a different beast. The cadence of U.S. team training camps limits on-field coaching to a few days every month or two, with a couple of games squeezed into each window.There is not always an immediate second chance to correct a poor performance, and in the knockout setting of international tournaments -- which Hayes will experience for the first time at the Olympics in two months -- one bad showing could seal a team's fate.There are recent, prominent and proximate examples of the difficulty in making the switch. Indeed, the transition between the club and international game has foiled many capable managers -- Andonovski was honest about how the lack of time with players was one of his biggest challenges in transitioning from the club setting."I just love coaching, daily coaching, and working with the players on a daily basis," Andonovski said upon his recent return to the NWSL. "In the national team environment, that's impossible."Andonovski won two NWSL championships and established himself as one of the best coaches in the league prior to his appointment as U.S. women's head coach in late 2019. He faced numerous challenges on the road to the 2021 Olympics and the 2023 World Cup -- the pandemic the most unique among them -- but ultimately struggled to find the right balance for the team in the way he might have with more regular interaction, like in the club game.He is thriving again in his return to the club setting: The Kansas City Current are off to an unbeaten start through 11 games under Andonovski.Mark Parsons was also a successful NWSL coach before taking the job as the Netherlands head coach in 2021. He briefly guided the Dutch to a difficult quarterfinal exit at the Euros in 2022 before his contract was terminated by mutual consent. Like U.S. Soccer's six-month wait for Hayes while she finished this season at Chelsea, Parsons juggled the Netherlands job and his final season at the Portland Thorns throughout 2021.Hayes is her own person, a point she would be quick to make with her human-first approach. She said she plans to speak with Andonovski and his predecessor, Jill Ellis, among others as part of preparing for the job.Hayes has a master's degree in intelligence and international affairs. She craves an understanding of how things and people work. She is serious, not naïve or flippant, when she says she's been watching USWNT video profiles about players' backstories and the recent Netflix documentary about the team to learn more about her team's personalities."When you manage human beings, it's pretty easy to get the best out of people you understand and you know -- it's a lot harder when you have to do that with people completely different," Hayes said.There are few personalities like Hayes, another point she jokingly made Thursday, and a strong presence is certainly needed at the helm of the USWNT.The USWNT squad has historically featured some of the biggest personalities in women's soccer, which has not suited every coach. The laid-back and affable Tom Sermanni was infamously and abruptly ousted as USWNT coach in 2014. Sunil Gulati, U.S. Soccer's president at the time, denied that Sermanni was sacked because of a player revolt, but it was clear Sermanni's style didn't fit what the federation -- and the players -- wanted.Andonovski, meanwhile, was favored by USWNT players when he was hired for the role, having worked with some as their NWSL coach, and he called the USWNT players his "friends" during the World Cup. But player-turned-commentator Carli Lloyd, who was critical of her former team during the World Cup, said that when players complained training sessions were too hard, he made them shorter.Hayes, for her part, describes herself as a good listener who is firm when she needs to be, but always empathetic. She is a superior communicator, too, a skill she will need as she navigates a transition from veterans to the next generation of USWNT players."I'm going to work hard on that culture piece, something I've done throughout my career," Hayes said. "Because what I've learned is if you don't deal with that part, that's what can cause as in any workplace, some of the in absence of communication, what happens? There's conversation, isn't there? And usually the wrong type of conversation."One of the USWNT's biggest issues at the 2023 World Cup was tactical, though. Players were unable to solve problems when opponents like Portugal shut down the USWNT's initial game plan, and there was a rigidity in their approach.Hayes is known for her tactical flexibility, which was already clear in her six months of overseeing the team from afar as interim head coach Twila Kilgore officially led the team. In that time, the USWNT experimented with different midfield balances, as well as three-backs and overloads on the wing."The framework, the methodology, the principles of play are completely clear, and they never change, but roles might change," Hayes said. "In terms of the limited time I have, I've got to keep it simple."Can she successfully implement her tactics in this setting, and with only two rest days between games at the Olympics? Will those messages be clear and concise enough to translate at the Olympics?However it plays out, expectations likely need to be tempered for this summer. U.S. Soccer's hiring of Hayes, and the decision to wait an extra six months for her to arrive so she could finish her club season with Chelsea, was a clear concession that she was a long-term hire, even at the expense of the short-term. U.S. Soccer knew she would only have two months to prepare for the Olympics, which begin in July, but hardware at the 2024 Olympics may be the necessary sacrifice to win the 2027 World Cup.One thing about Hayes' transition from the club setting is clear: A weight -- "a boulder," she called it -- has been lifted off her shoulders. Unlike Andonovski, who craved that daily grind, Hayes grew exhausted by it over time, particularly with a now 6-year-old son in tow. A game every three days, press conferences before each, player meetings each day? Hayes said again Thursday that she "categorically couldn't do that again -- not this moment in time."She's in Denver now, meeting the first USWNT squad she can fully call her own. After a pair of friendlies against South Korea, she'll bounce between England and the U.S. before settling around Atlanta, where U.S. Soccer is in the process of building a dedicated training center.Hayes will get some time to breathe in late August, if she'll allow herself to. First comes a sprint to the Olympics, Hayes' first big test in a different type of arena."There's a different ebb and flow to international football," Hayes said "I think the change has re-energized [me]. I felt it today in particular. And yes, of course, in an ideal world, everybody would love to be sitting on a beach somewhere now, for a couple of weeks. But my perspective is really clear: You don't get many opportunities to go to an Olympics in your life." ,Emma Hayes, entrenadora de élite de fútbol femenino, asume el desafío de dirigir a la Selección de EE. UU. en su primera experiencia internacional.](https://losdeportes.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Tue-28-May-2024-090953-EST.jpg)
Emma Hayes, entrenadora de élite de fútbol femenino, asume el desafío de dirigir a la Selección de EE. UU. en su primera experiencia internacional.
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Intensa competencia por entrenadores en fútbol europeo
![Write informative laconic excerpt under 30 words in mexican spanish for news below. Do not wrap it into quotation marks or html tags. There has never been a managerial recruitment race like it. Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Liverpool, Juventus and Chelsea -- five of football's biggest clubs -- all searching for a new manager or head coach during the same brief period of time.Manchester United, who won the FA Cup by winning 2-1 against Manchester City in the final at Wembley on Saturday (stream a reply on ESPN+), could soon join the congested field of European giants looking to hire a new manager with minority owners INEOS conducting an end-of-season review that may lead to the departure of Erik ten Hag after just two seasons in charge.Liverpool completed their search for a successor to Jürgen Klopp by confirming the appointment of Feyenoord coach Arne Slot last week. But having initially explored the possibility of hiring Xabi Alonso, before being told that their former midfielder would remain at Bayer Leverkusen this summer, Liverpool sources told ESPN that the recruitment of Slot came at the end of a process undertaken in a "challenging market."- Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.)Senior figures at Bayern would echo that sentiment. Germany's biggest club, and six-time Champions League winners, has previously been a blue-chip destination for football's elite coaches including Louis van Gaal, Pep Guardiola, Carlo Ancelotti and Thomas Tuchel. When Bayern come calling, no one says no. Until now.Sources have told ESPN that Bayern are close to naming Vincent Kompany as Tuchel's successor, having agreed a compensation package with the Belgian coach's present employers, Burnley. But the former Manchester City captain is, at best, Bayern's fourth choice for the job, but may even be considered their sixth or seventh pick.Alonso, Julian Nagelsmann and Ralf Rangnick all rejected a move to Bayern, while former Brighton & Hove Albion coach Roberto De Zerbi, ex-Bayern coach Hansi Flick and Benfica's Roger Schmidt were all reportedly considered by the club. Talks with Tuchel about reconsidering the plan to part ways also took place before both parties stuck to Plan A of terminating their working relationship.Meanwhile in Spain, sources have told ESPN that Barcelona are on course to hire Flick in the days ahead to replace Xavi Hernández, who announced in midseason he would leave this summer before changing his mind in April. Barça then decided to fire Xavi last week, despite spending months assessing potential successors -- Flick, Alonso, De Zerbi, Sporting CP's Rúben Amorim -- and struggling to find the right appointment.Juventus appear to have a plan to replace Massimiliano Allegri with Thiago Motta, who is leaving Bologna, barring a possible late move by AC Milan. But Chelsea have yet to nail down a successor to Mauricio Pochettino, with Leicester City's Enzo Maresca the latest name added to the list of coaches linked with the club. United, if they dismiss Ten Hag, have also spent months looking at possible candidates, but sources have said they are yet to decide if any of them fit and whether they will be a better option than Ten Hag.So why is the managerial market becoming such a difficult one to navigate, especially for those clubs that usually get what they want, and quickly? A big factor is the increasing influence of sporting directors, the executives charged by club owners to run the football side of the operation. The days of clubs being dominated by the relationship between chairman and manager are long gone."Football clubs are moving away from generalists to specialists," Steven Houston, head of strategic and sporting operations advisory at the Sportsology Group, told ESPN. "Sporting operations are now so big that clubs are building brains trusts with many areas of expertise and responsibility such as sporting director, technical director, director of analytics, director of performances, head coach."So identifying the right head coach who is comfortable with the responsibility of driving the team, improving the players, delivering results, at the same time as accepting the roles of others, is crucial. Some of the coaches out there might not be compatible with the vision set by the owner or sporting director."Clubs should have their non-negotiables of what a coach must be prepared to fit into, such as style of play, development of young players, communication skills and that enables them to move quickly and narrow down the field of candidates."But we always say that they need to have a Plan A, B, C, D and E because availability plays a big part in recruitment in a specific window of time."Recent success is becoming a determining factor for many clubs in their search for a new coach. Ten Hag was hired by United two years ago after winning the Eredivisie with Ajax, Slot moves to Liverpool just 12 months after doing the same with Feyenoord. Motta tops the list at Juventus after guiding Bologna into the Champions League, while Kompany's success in winning promotion to the Premier League with Burnley in 2023 appears to carry more weight at Bayern than his relegation at Turf Moor this season.Those coaches with success further back in time -- Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte, for instance -- have proven to be less attractive to those clubs looking for a coach with a recent winning pedigree as well as the readiness to work within a structure led by a sporting director or director of football.It is the emerging coaches such as Slot, Motta, Amorim and Ipswich Town's Kieran McKenna, who are the new top targets, rather than the older coaches whose remit has generally been broader than those who are now making their way within club structures led by a sporting director. And that goes some way to explaining why clubs are taking longer to make an appointment and why they are working from shortlists rather than simply identifying one target."With tenure length [for coaches] decreasing, clubs should always have a succession plan running in the background," Houston said. "They have big scouting departments constantly looking for players to cover every position, so it would make sense for them to do the same with coaches. The more background knowledge you have, the quicker you can move forward and make a hire."Liverpool have got their man, and Bayern and Barcelona seem to have finally got theirs, but none of those clubs have found it easy to switch from one coach to another. Yes, it is a tough market with so many competitors wanting the same thing, but clubs are also being more selective.It is no longer simply about finding the coach with most titles and trophies. They now have to tick many more boxes to persuade a club to hire them. ,Intensa competencia por entrenadores en Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Liverpool, Juventus y Chelsea. Grandes clubes europeos buscando nuevos estrategas en mercado desafiante. Barcelona cerca de fichar a Flick como reemplazo de Xavi Hernández.](https://losdeportes.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Mon-27-May-2024-081534-EST.jpg)
Intensa competencia por entrenadores en Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Liverpool, Juventus y Chelsea. Grandes clubes europeos buscando nuevos estrategas en mercado desafiante. Barcelona cerca de fichar a Flick como reemplazo de Xavi Hernández.
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