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Last Updated: March 17, 2024, 00:01 IST
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Chelsea girls’s supervisor Emma Hayes says she was incorrect to explain intrasquad participant relationships as “inappropriate.”
LONDON: Chelsea girls’s supervisor Emma Hayes says she was incorrect to explain intrasquad participant relationships as “inappropriate.”
Hayes is ending out the season at Chelsea within the Women’s Super League earlier than she takes over as coach of the U.S. girls’s nationwide staff.
In Hayes’ preliminary feedback Thursday, she mentioned participant-to-participant relationships in a staff are “ inappropriate ” as a result of they’ve the potential to create additional challenges to handle.
She had been requested about participant-coach relationships, which she additionally mentioned had been inappropriate.
“I didn’t think it was right for me to use the term ‘inappropriate’ for the players,” Hayes mentioned Friday evening after Chelsea beat Arsenal 3-1 in a WSL match.
Chelsea gamers Jess Carter and Ann-Katrin Berger are at the moment in a relationship, and after Hayes’ preliminary remark, Carter appreciated a tweet that mentioned it was “beyond bonkers” to deliver participant relationships into the dialog about participant-coach relationships.
Hayes mentioned postmatch that she spoke to Carter and different gamers about her alternative of phrases.
The supervisor regretted creating “clickbait headlines” and in that respect, she mentioned, “I let myself down yesterday.”
On Thursday, Hayes mentioned participant-to-participant relationships may be exhausting to navigate for a coach, and that long run in an “ideal” state of affairs they wouldn’t be a part of a staff setting.
“I think when we have honest conversations about these things, I don’t take those things back,” Hayes mentioned Friday. “But I have zero criticism of any player in my dressing room for anything, their professionalism, for what they have given to their club, regardless of their status or who they are in a relationship with. I’ve been unbelievably supportive of all of the players. I have been a champion for equality and equity.”
Pernille Harder and Magdalena Eriksson have been in a relationship for the previous decade and performed collectively at Chelsea for 3 seasons with Hayes as their supervisor. They joined Bayern Munich final summer season.
Hayes is anticipated to make her debut main the U.S. nationwide staff in a pair of pleasant matches towards South Korea in June.
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