As Tom Cruise cheered on the US girls’s soccer workforce on the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Chelsea legend Emma Hayes took her alternative to attempt to get a photograph with the Hollywood actor.
Hayes, who spent 12 years successful numerous trophies with Chelsea girls, was taking cost of the USWNT for the primary time on the Olympics, and had guided them to the ultimate at Paris’ Parc des Princes to tackle Brazil.
Forward of his abseiling look on the closing ceremony a day later, Cruise was among the many celebrating USA followers.
Tom Cruise ambushed by Emma Hayes’ household at Olympics
Hayes tells FFT: “He was within the field subsequent door to my household, and my mum went to introduce herself. His safety mentioned, ‘Yeah, he’ll come and have a photograph with Emma’s mum, no downside’.
“As he went in, all of my sisters had been there and all of my nieces and nephews – Tom walked in and mentioned, ‘I assumed you mentioned a photograph with mum, not the entire household!’”
Smiling on the absurdity of all of it, Hayes continues: “He met my sisters and so they all had a chat, grabbed a photograph and had a Hollywood second with him. They completely cherished it.
“I by no means acquired to fulfill him, however I acquired all the movies. I mentioned to mum, ‘How was that?’ She mentioned, ‘Effectively, it was pretty to fulfill him, however it could have been good if it was Kevin Costner…’ She likes watching Yellowstone. I mentioned, ‘All proper, I’ll save the Kevin Costner look for one more time, mum!’”
Although she’s now a global supervisor, Hayes’ seven league titles, achieved within the house of simply 9 seasons, places her 5 away from every other supervisor in WSL historical past. Her report may stand for a really very long time.
She additionally gained 5 FA Cups and FIFA’s Finest Ladies’s Coach award for 2021, the 12 months she led Chelsea to their first Ladies’s Champions League last.
The time for change had slowly been approaching, nonetheless. Requested whether or not she would nonetheless be Chelsea boss had the USA job not come alongside, she admits that she’s not sure.
“I don’t know,” she says. “I do genuinely really feel like I’d given the whole lot I may to Chelsea – I don’t suppose I may have given one other a part of myself. I believe that was executed. However I nonetheless must hold working, and I need to hold pushing myself. It simply felt prefer it was the precise time, the precise job.”
