Emma Hayes knocks men's game for lack of female coaches: 'It just shows you how much work there is to be done'

While the United States men's national team awaits news on the managerial front, their women's boss remains unafraid to make waves. United States Women's national team manager Emma Hayes spoke about the state of management in global soccer. Hayes states that men's teams aren't ready for a female coach during an interview on The Today programme on BBC Radio.

"Of course [the men's Game isn't ready to appoint female coaches], otherwise it would have happened by now," Hayes said. "I've said this a million times over - you can find a female doctor, a female lawyer, a female banker, but you can't find a female coach working in the men's Game, leading men. It just shows you how much work there is to be done."

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Given her perspective managing Chelsea's women's team, there is an interesting lens to view Hayes' comments through. In her 12 years managing on the Women's side, the Men's side has employed 13 different managers including interim managers one of which was Frank Lampard twice. While credentials don't mean everything in management, there are few managers in the world more accomplished than Hayes who has won the Women's Super Leauge seven times, the Women's FA Cup five times, and also finished as the runner up in the Women's Champions Leauge in the 2020-21 season.

If Hayes couldn't get a look in at the club that she was at during that period, what needs to be done in order for a female coach to receive that chance?