American football is learning more than the Chelifes Cup more than you will get from winning

Alex Ferguson, who led Manchester United to 13 unprecedented titles in the Premier League in 21 seasons, insisted that the coaches learned less than victory than they did in the defeat.

This seems to indicate that Ferguson learned a little during his period in England. However, if it is right, then Emma Hayes“Education as a coach of the National Women’s Team has just started because until last month, like Ferguson, she only knew success.

He held the position of director last spring, about two months before the Paris Olympics, then won all the six matches in that tournament to return the United States to the top of the medal platform for the first time since 2012. This was part of a unseen series of 17 games that ended three weeks ago in a 2-1 loss against Japan in the Chibelvis Cup final. But for Hayes, the result did not know it as much as the opponent did.

“When you play against the best teams – Japan may be the best in the world at the present time – I will learn more about the players in the challenges of that game than sometimes I am winning,” she said. “You have to test it first to know and understand what is necessary to play at the highest level.”

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In this case, Hayes and her players learned a lot against Japan because seven 17 women who appeared in that game were not in the Olympic team. For them, the game was an invitation to wake up.

“I have faced many players who left the stadium” Wow, this is a really high level, “Hayes said.

The next step in this progress comes on April 5, when the United States faces Brazil at Sophie Stadium in the Olympic Final last summer. This will lead to the first appearance of the team in the most expensive stadium in the world, which will host eight matches in the Men’s World Cup next summer.

Brazil and the United States will meet again after three days in San Jose.

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“In terms of the importance of the game[s]”We are playing a high -level opponent, the next host of the World Cup,” Hayes said.

Both teams will differ from those that met in Paris. Brazil, which lasts on December 1, will be without Marta, which retired from the international play after the Olympic Games. The United States will lose the Sofia Smith striker, who announced last week its pregnancy, and it can be without Naomi Jerma defender, striker Malry Swanson and midfielder Rose Laville, among others.

Hayes has not obtained the first option list since the Olympic Games, but it looks at this as a blessing more than a curse.

She said, “Our group will be different due to the availability of players.” “But I think it gives our least experienced players another opportunity to see where we measure.”

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Because Hayes’s obligations for Chelsea, her former employer, delayed her arrival in the United States until last May, she had little time to evaluate the deep American talent group before the Olympic Games. Therefore, with the next major international championship more than two years away, it is doing it now.

In January, 24 players invited to 23 players to the “Secondary Contract Camp”, which was held in conjunction with the first summons of the national team for this year. Among the list that I put together for the Shelifes Cup is three teenagers and three players who made the first major international appearance in the tournament.

“In training, you never got the scenarios of the ideal world in anything,” Hayes said.

Sometimes, this decline means before you can move forward. Just ask Alex Ferguson.

Hayes said, “You can not always measure development with victory and loss,” Hayes said. “I always try to compete to win, but I also understand development. The importance of development is that [I] You should take these difficult lessons early, then work with players to continue growth. “

This story was originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.