Emma Hayes revealed Sir Alex Ferguson has given her recommendation after she was confirmed as the brand new United States boss.
Former Manchester United supervisor Ferguson known as the outgoing Chelsea boss final week after it was introduced she was leaving the membership.
Hayes will end the 2023-24 Ladies’s Tremendous League marketing campaign with the Blues earlier than she joins the USA ladies’s squad two months earlier than the Olympics in Paris.
She stated: “We had a chat last week, he rang me, but I was in the middle of talking to Poch (Mauricio Pochettino) so I was torn. Unfortunately I had to tell Poch to wait. There’s not many people you tell Poch to wait for but I did say to him it was Sir Alex.
“He calls me infrequently so I wasn’t shocked. Something he says to me I all the time take with such delight. He’s a legend of the sport and somebody whose opinion I worth and he has a love of America.
“We talked a little bit about that, a little bit about legacy, a little bit about leaving at the top. So there were wise words from him. I’m sure it won’t be the last phone call I get from him this season.”
Hayes, who acquired the Chelsea job in the summertime of 2012, has led the membership to 6 WSL titles, 5 FA Cups and two League Cups, a haul that includes two league and FA Cup doubles and one home treble, whereas they have been Champions League runners-up in 2021.
She is a six-time WSL supervisor of the season and was named FIFA’s ladies’s supervisor of the yr in 2021.
Evaluation: Hayes a pioneer in English ladies’s soccer
Sky Sports activities’ Charlotte Marsh:
“It is unusual for a manager to announce their departure from a club so early in the season – but Emma Hayes has always broken the mould.
“In loads of methods, seven months is required to attempt to comprehend simply how huge of an impression Hayes has not solely had at Chelsea, however throughout ladies’s soccer in England as an entire.
“Her numbers for the Blues converse for themselves – trophies upon information upon titles. Would not it’s the tip to the fairy story if she bowed out by profitable the membership their first Champions League title?
“By transforming Chelsea into the women’s powerhouse they are, Hayes has championed and pioneered the standards that the entire game is now being held to.
“Participant well being throughout the board, amenities, coaching strategies, staffing, transfers – you’ll be able to see Hayes’ affect in every space. Ladies’s soccer would merely not be the place it’s with out her lighting the best way.
“She has been on the forefront of the expansion of ladies’s soccer, a voice others flip to for opinion and path on the largest points dealing with not solely the sport, however ladies total.
“Hayes too has shown that this can all be achieved as a mother, as someone who battles against health issues and personal loss just like us all. None of it has impacted her ability to do her job successfully and reflects the human element that can sometimes be missing in football.
“Her transfer to the USA affords her a brand new problem and one which will likely be extremely thrilling to observe unfold.
“But for now, the tributes and goodbyes will come flooding in over the coming months and rightly so. Chelsea and women’s football have a lot to thank Hayes for.”