Hayes’ cooking lessons pay off in USWNT-Japan series finale – Equalizer Soccer

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U.S. women’s national team head coach (and cooking metaphor aficionado) Emma Hayes wasn’t interested in just appetizers and a satisfying main course on Friday night. She wanted dessert, too, and she got it in spades in Commerce City, Colo. Playing in the final of a three-game series against a talented Japanese team, the Americans took a 3-0 victory after failing to find the back of the net just nights before. 

Hayes told reporters after the game that Friday’s success was the result of “More cooking lessons and the application of the cooking lessons.”

“It is as simple as that,” Hayes continued. “You can’t become elite without rehearsal and failure and learnings and all of them things. It doesn’t go in a straight line. Of course I want to win every game of football, but not at the expense of what we’re trying to achieve.”