Emma Hayes, the coach who can win a Champions League after rejecting men's football

Emma Hayes is an institution both at Chelsea, which she has managed for almost nine years, and in the Women's Premier, where his success is undoubted with four league titles. Undisputed leader of the successful female project in the blue entity, the English coach has a great personality both in and out of the dressing room.

Proof of this was his reaction to the interest of a men's club, Third Division Wimbledon, in taking over her services as a coach. “An insult”, that's how Emma crossed out the option of leaving Chelsea for the humble London team. Beyond the qualification, the Englishwoman left weighty arguments to support her position: “It is an insult that we speak of women's football as if it were a step backwards”

Such rejection was produced by the fact of presenting as a step forward in his career changing a First female wardrobe for one of Third male. “I am a Chelsea coach. I manage world-class players. Women's football is not below anything.” The Englishwoman said then, who even sounded like a candidate to replace Maurizio Sarri in 2019 when the Italian left Chelsea.

Emma, ​​who already knows what it is to win a women's Champions League (He did it as an assistant at Arsenal) he only wants to continue making his Chelsea great, with which he seeks to be crowned today (9:00 p.m.) against Barça in the Champions League final. “I would not like to be in another dressing room than this one, it is a group of fantastic women that has led us here, The reality is that we are just one step away from being European champions“, said in the previous to the European appointment. Reason is not lacking.