Hello Emma, you appear to be you’ve taken to the US like a duck to water. However what meals or drink from again house are you lacking? Antony, Staffordshire
I all the time miss a roast dinner, roast rooster. And the milk. The milk is totally different over there so when you’ve gotten a cup of tea, it’s simply not the identical as a result of the milk shouldn’t be the identical. It alters the standard of the tea so, hear, that’s robust for me.
How’s life in America been treating you? Is the infrastructure for girls’s soccer noticeably extra developed there? And the million-dollar query: what occurs when your new workforce face England within the World Cup remaining in 2027? Tom Stubbs, Brussels
Initially, I really like being there. The cultural method to the women’ and girls’s sport is extra ingrained within the US, as a result of they’ve been doing it for longer when it comes to offering alternatives. That’s noticeable, and the US method to ladies’s sport stands out, not simply soccer, however with basketball too. As for that hypothetical for 2027, nicely, you’re saying we’re within the World Cup remaining so I’m excited! For those who give me that choice right this moment, I’ll chew your hand off. I wish to be within the World Cup remaining competing to win a World Cup so, whoever you’re dealing with, it’s going to be a high, high aspect, and I don’t get emotional about it – it’s England however I’m repping the USA so my focus is on the USA.
What units good coaches other than nice coaches? Amalia, Australia
Primary: to be an incredible chief, I feel you need to present nice empathy and an incredible understanding, that helps you join with folks. Sure, pure emotional intelligence ranges will assist, however you need to develop the talents to have the ability to carry the most effective out of individuals. Quantity two: have readability in your imaginative and prescient, so that everyone can align to that they usually know what they’re signing as much as. And quantity three: don’t be afraid to be weak with them. You may’t all the time be proper, so keep in mind that they’re companions with you, you go alongside the journey of teaching groups the place, even because the chief, the workforce’s insights and their steerage ought to kind part of the narrative, as a result of they play the sport, they realize it, and their experiences of it are equally as legitimate as your route because the chief.
What are you most trying ahead to concerning the Ladies’s Euros? Kevin, Birmingham
The closeness in video games. I wish to see extra video games being harder to win, that’s what I’m most trying ahead to, as a result of then teaching comes into it. You get to see extra teaching when the matches are tighter.
Who’s the USWNT participant who has most stunned you because you grew to become supervisor of the nationwide workforce? Kiaan, Manchester
I couldn’t identify only one, oh my goodness, all of them did. I went there undecided what to anticipate from their stage and I used to be so pleasantly stunned on the entire. Sure, I feel there’s a spot in expertise between the highest group and this technology that I’m bringing by means of, however I’m simply so pleasantly stunned, their angle, their method, their coachability, all of it.
As somebody who understands the worldwide sport and its energy to unify, what do you suppose US Soccer must be doing to assist rural communities, like ours in western Montana, develop the sport the place there aren’t any lights, few coaches and restricted infrastructure however a deep starvation to play? Nick Lawyer, Montana
Within the US, a lot focus is about “pay to play” and I hope that, with the Soccer Ahead legacy programmes of 26 and 31 [the 2026 men’s World Cup and the 2031 women’s World Cup] that we’re actually began to develop extra connections with communities that don’t have the identical entry to the game, so I hope the work that Soccer Ahead are doing helps to deal with a few of that.
Do you are feeling the USWNT gamers who play within the NWSL are at a aggressive drawback to these taking part in in Europe? Rob Coughlin, Chicago
I feel each the NWSL and the European leagues are aggressive, however they’re totally different experiences. The Champions League affords one thing that the NWSL can’t, at this second in time, however that’s altering. The parity within the NWSL, week-in, week-out, and the competitiveness of the league, ensures there may be all the time a high fixture each week, so it’s the variety piece that’s totally different. In Europe you get the Champions League however the growth of the Concacaf W Champions Cup – which Gotham FC not too long ago received – will assist to bridge that hole.
In your imaginative and prescient to remake ladies’s soccer within the US, what are the top-three actions you most need and hope to see from NWSL golf equipment? Luke, Portland
The primary will probably be to only maintain including to their very own employees, so that they’re offering the gamers with all of the skilled companies in and round them in a deeper manner. The second is, maintain attracting the very best quality to the NWSL, as a result of it helps our personal gamers develop once they’re taking part in in the most effective coaching environments with the most effective gamers. And enlargement, as a result of I feel enlargement is one other step in the correct route, displaying that the sport is creating.
What expertise ought to younger American gamers with national-team ambitions be practising of their again yards? Marissa, Denver
Hit the ball in opposition to the wall, follow one-v-ones, do rebound balls – you develop your personal technical stuff by practising lots of your tight-area expertise and ball management.
What can younger gamers do to extend their tactical consciousness and data of the sport, significantly in the event that they harbour ambitions of being a coach themselves when they’re older? Chris Wragg, Bournemouth
There are a few issues: watch soccer and attempt to watch it by means of the lens of a coach, not as a fan. Educate your self, however outdoors of England – don’t simply go to your run-of-the-mill location, go to someplace like Barcelona’s innovation hub and see if you are able to do some positional play coach training programs, and go different nations the place you may expertise totally different coach training as a result of that’s only one instance.
Thanks for all of the great work you probably did at Chelsea. First, would you prefer to handle England at some point? Second, have you ever dropped the F-bomb on US dwell TV but and, in that case, what was the response? Peter Collins, London
Initially, I’m all the time sceptical that individuals can’t use the F-bomb in the correct context, however I’d say I feel I’ve shunned it for now – I’ve been engaged on that! As for managing England at some point, I’ll by no means say by no means.
If the world’s costliest footballer price round £200m – Neymar’s charge when transferring to Paris Saint-Germain – how a lot is the world’s finest soccer supervisor value? Rick, London
A supervisor, like a participant in lots of regards, is somebody “on the workforce” however it’s somebody who’s heading that up, and you’ll see with the charges for managers as they stand, when shopping for them out of contracts, the switch charge isn’t at that very same quantity as gamers however they definitely are costly quantities. I don’t suppose managers’ charges will ever be that of a participant, due to advertising causes, which can be why gamers’ switch charges are that prime. You may promote gamers’ shirts however we don’t promote managers’ shirts so I don’t suppose their charges will ever meet that very same stage.
Do you suppose Chelsea paying record-transfer charges season after season is sweet for the Ladies’s Tremendous League? You have been in opposition to WSL introducing fair-spending ranges, was this as a result of it could have stopped Chelsea efforts in profitable the Champions League? Ted Harvey, Ipswich
I do know Naomi Girma is value a minimum of $1m, a minimum of! She’s the most effective.
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How bittersweet was it seeing Arsenal win the Champions League? Bitter since you most likely would have most popular it to be Chelsea who received but in addition candy since you have been assistant coach to Vic Akers final time Arsenal received the trophy in 2007. Additionally, while you and Renée Slegers talked earlier than the ultimate, what recommendation did you give her? Ingrid, New Zealand
It was removed from bittersweet. Arsenal have been a large a part of my life since I used to be 10, I coached there for a very long time, so I used to be delighted for them. I introduced Renée to England as an academy participant in 2006 so I’ve had a robust relationship along with her and I’m so impressed along with her. I feel she’s unbelievable, she did an incredible job, and sure we did communicate within the week main as much as the sport, however she doesn’t want my assist. She’s acquired that beneath management and I’m very comfortable to see an English workforce win it.
Your teaching profession goes again to when there have been much more unbiased golf equipment run with out the backing of a pre-existing males’s workforce. Now solely two within the WSL and WSL2 run independently. Do you suppose this can ever change, or are nearly all of profitable ladies’s workforce going to be operated by males’s golf equipment? Liam, Newcastle-under-Lyme
I feel we’re probably going to see extra unbiased groups, sure, and that’s an excellent factor. Each can exist, however having robust unbiased ladies’s groups with robust possession can solely help the event of the sport.
Thomas Tuchel resigns tomorrow – would you like the job? Do you even get the job? David, Surrey
No, I don’t. I really like my job.
Do you envision it being attainable for a feminine coach to handle in a top-five males’s league or a global males’s workforce in your lifetime? Bryan, Portland
Sure, I do see that occuring, however I all the time suppose these questions must be requested of homeowners, not of managers.
What’s the one widespread query/trope that you just want the media would cease asking in press conferences?” Ruth, Ontorio
Any comparability to the lads’s sport or “when are you going to educate within the males’s sport”, prefer it’s the be-all and end-all. I really like working in ladies’s sports activities. Once I get these two questions, I want I may put a pin within the balloon within the room.
I see that Finland not too long ago called-up a 51-year-old. Do you want an 80-year-old? Ann Steiner, Arizona
Everytime you desire a sport, Ann, give us a shout! I’ll put you on the bench.