Emma Hayes details Olympic-sized task for USA to regain standing as women’s football elite
The IndependentSign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The former Chelsea coach was in combative mood as she put the final touches to the USA’s preparations for the Olympic women’s football tournament. We got no given right to any result, everything has to be earned, especially against the top footballing nations we’ve got to play here.” open image in gallery Hayes and Lindsey Horan To be fair former coach Vlatko Andonovski said something very similar in the days before last summer’s Fifa Women’s World Cup in Australia. “This team is over the World Cup, we’re about some new history, not what happened in the past,” added Hayes. Hayes’s first opponents Zambia shipped ten goals against Spain and Japan in their group campaign last summer, but she’s previously called their captain Barbra Banda the most in-form striker on the planet.