Emma Hayescoach of Chelsea who will become a member of the US national team in May, said that relationships between players within the same team are “inappropriate” because they present additional management challenges, although he acknowledged that “getting along -we relate to people.”
Hayes was speaking at a press conference yesterday Thursday ahead of the WSL match against Arsenal. There he was asked about the protection of players after it was reported in the British media that Leicester women’s coach, Willie Kirk, was being investigated for accusations of having an affair with one of his students. “We need to have safeguards in place and make sure they are accessible at each and every club to protect the players,” he said.
“Player-coach relationships are inappropriate and player-to-player relationships are inappropriate,” Hayes said. “But we have to look at it in the context of where the game is coming from and say ‘look, we’re in a professional era’ where the expectations for players and coaches are such that all our focus and attention must be on having the highest demands. Relationships between players can be difficult for a coach to manage,” he said.
“It can happen, for example, that one is a starter and one is not or that one is in the last year of his contract and the other is not. We all know, those of us who have been in women’s football for a long period of time, that those things have been happening in the locker rooms. Ideally, you don’t have to deal with that. But you have to keep in mind that we are talking about people.” Hayes said it’s important to put this in context: “Women’s football as we know it is a very new sport for a long time, so, and I say this also in relation to the relationships between the player, there are situations we have to deal with. including.”
In their Chelsea team, Dane Pernille Harder and Swede Magdalena Eriksson have been in a relationship for the last decade and played together for Chelsea for three seasons. Both moved to Bayern Munich last summer.
Source: La Verdad
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