For Emma Hayes, the chance to coach the U.S. women’s soccer team is a dream come true.
It’s the biggest job in the sport, one her father, Sid, pushed her to pursue for more than a decade — and one she finally landed two months after his passing.
“I’m doing the job I love,” she said last week. “I get to enjoy these amazing players.”
Yet dreams, as Hayes also knows, can sometimes turn into nightmares. So she’s under no illusion that reviving a national team that has fallen to its lowest point in decades won’t be easy.