The Brit Tapped to Restore Glory to U.S. Women’s Soccer

Emma Hayes is buzzing. Hayes, the new British coach of the United States Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT), who will make her debut coaching the U.S. squad in international competition at the Paris Olympics, has just watched her home country knock off the Netherlands in a thrilling Euro 2024 semifinal on July 10. “I’m absolutely over the moon,” Hayes tells TIME from a hotel in New Jersey, where her U.S. team is camped out while training for the Olympics.