United States women's national team head coach Emma Hayes has criticized the Ballon d'Or ceremony being held during a women's FIFA window.
Hayes picked up the inaugural Ballon d'Or for best women's coach on Monday but, along with most players and coaches from the women's game, she was not in Paris to receive the award alongside the rest of the soccer world.
"I mean, it'd be like running an Oscars or a Golden Globes, without having any females present," Hayes said on Tuesday from Louisville, Kentucky, where she is with the USWNT for the last of three games in a week.