Emma Hayes reveals 'mojo' is back as United States boss after stress of Chelsea job

Emma Hayes revealed she felt "unwell" astatine the extremity of her clip arsenic Chelsea brag owed to the accent of the job.

Hayes, who ended her 12-year reign successful complaint of the Blues to go caput manager of the United States women's team, is backmost successful London arsenic her caller broadside hole for Saturday's affable with England astatine Wembley.

The 48-year-old, who guided Chelsea to a 5th successive Women's Super League rubric successful May, opened up astir the toll the occupation took connected her wellness earlier she made the power to planetary management.

Speaking successful Camden astir the perks of planetary football, Hayes told reporters connected Monday: "I don't person to sacrifice the things that made maine healthy. I didn't consciousness steadfast astatine the end, I really felt unwell astatine the extremity of my clip astatine Chelsea.

"It wasn't pressure, it was the accent and toll it took connected maine and doing that during menopause was adjacent harder.

"To get connected apical of each of those things, I've got my mojo backmost and my grin and enjoyment backmost which I didn't realise I had lost."

Hayes guided the USA to Olympic golden successful Paris successful the summertime and Saturday's lucifer volition beryllium the archetypal clip she has travel up against Sarina Wiegman's Lionesses.

Hayes admitted it would beryllium unusual going up against players she has "gone to warfare with" but said the juncture was strictly business.

"I'm looking guardant to seeing Sarina," she said. "Of people I request to spell done a weird infinitesimal erstwhile the nationalist anthems are being played. I'll hum on to it (God Save the King) being the English idiosyncratic I am, but besides the aforesaid for the US 1 due to the fact that I emotion it, I emotion some anthems.

"Beyond that weird infinitesimal and coming up against players I've gone to warfare with, it's concern travel kick-off. I anticipation it's an entertaining crippled and a sell-out."

Chelsea skipper Millie Bright is 1 of a fig of Blues players who volition beryllium up against their erstwhile coach.

"Millie Bright is simply a peculiar idiosyncratic successful my beingness and she feels similar a small sister," Hayes added.

"We went done galore years of gathering Chelsea and winning titles and watching her astatine England, she's idiosyncratic that volition beryllium successful my beingness beyond this shot match.

"I'm looking guardant to seeing her."