The USSF is in advanced talks with Chelsea women's manager Emma Hayes to be the next manager of the USWNT, sources have confirmed to ESPN.
Chelsea coach Emma Hayes is to leave the club at the end of the Women's Super League season"to pursue a new opportunity outside the WSL and club football", the club
The expectation is that if Hayes is hired, she will juggle both the USWNT and Chelsea jobs until the conclusion of the WSL season. While the plan is for Hayes to join up with the USWNT during international windows, there are potential conflicts. The CONCACAF W Gold Cup is set to run from Feb. 20 until March 10, a period in which Chelsea has league matches againston March 3.
"Given everything she has contributed to Chelsea in over a decade with the club, and the legacy she leaves behind, we would never stand in her way when she felt it was the right time to pursue a new challenge," Chelsea co-sporting directors Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley said in a statement.
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