Hayes’s Olympic victory with USWNT is story woven with love and loss
Head coach’s late father inspired her to take the US job and tapestry of emotions led to glittering gold in Paris
Twelve years ago Emma Hayes was sitting next to her father, Sid, at Wembley watching the United States women’s national team win their fourth Olympic gold medal.
Hayes, to all intents and purposes unemployed, after she had been sacked by the Chicago Red Stars, leaned across to Sid and, as he recalled it, said: “Dad, you see those 50 people out there? I’ve coached 40 of them.”
