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What USWNT fans can learn from Hayes' final season at Chelsea

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LONDON -- In April 2023, after her side had lost 2-1 on aggregate to Barcelona in the UEFA Women's Champions League semifinals, Chelsea manager Emma Hayes sat in her postmatch news conference at Camp Nou and cried. The journalists gathered in the room shared a single thought: Is she done?

"If there was a little bit longer in the game, I think we would have gone on and won it," Hayes said. "We grew into the game, we got more aggressive, and we created some good chances. It wasn't quite enough, and I'm stood here now just absolutely gutted to be totally honest.