Welcome to the Scuff Podcast, where hired as the U.S. Women's National Team Coach, Tara, what do you think of that?

I couldn't be more excited, I couldn't be more intrigued, I feel like Christmas morning,

I'm so excited. I should have I should introduce everybody's here.

Greg, Tara, and Vince. Greg, how do you feel about it? I am pretty stoked. It was a real shrewd move once again by our US soccer front office,

J.T. Sydney Parlo Kone, to leak a list of somewhat underwhelming finalists and then to drop the

bombshell, the Joe Lowry bombshell that we that we snagged Emma Hayes. I mean that is about the most efficient roller coaster you can you can have for a higher like this.

Yeah, it's interesting.

She wasn't one of the three finalists reported by the athletic last week I guess it was and we talked

about this on Wose Wednesday and we weren't really that excited about the three candidates, right?

But here we are.

She's widely regarded as the best coach in women's soccer.

Is that fair to say?

She wasn't even on my shortlist, my dream shortlist, because I didn't believe it could happen.

I'm with Tara though, like, you know, when you're imagining the shortlist, I think a lot of us

tended to default to players who were sort of more

or coaches I'm sorry who were sort of within the US universe already so when you

hear Gustafson or you hear Laura Harvey like those make sense.

Any coach from NWA sell that would kind of make sense.

Like Hayes, Serena like they kind of exist outside of the shortlist universe, I feel like.

So it's such a coup to just pull that off.

And obviously it's such a coup that we're sort of already making exceptions to how she's going to take over the role.

Yeah, so it was kind of surreal the way it, the way it played out, right?

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