PARIS —
The U.S. women’s soccer team has its swagger back. And that’s brought its success back too.
After settling for just one bronze medal in the last two Olympics, then bowing out of the 2023 World Cup in the round of 16, the U.S. will strut into the quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics on Saturday unbeaten and leading the tournament in both goals and goal differential.
And the difference, captain Lindsey Horan said, is new coach Emma Hayes, who was hired to replace Vlatko Andonovski after the World Cup debacle but was delayed in officially assuming the job until May, when her club season at Chelsea finished.