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Just a few days into the job, new U.S. women’s national team head coach Emma Hayes is already impressed with what she’s seen in training sessions this week out of her first 23-player roster — or, as she called them when addressing the media on Friday ahead of the first of two friendlies against Korea, a group of “unbelievable sponges.”
“There’ll be some tired brains, for sure,” Hayes said in a press conference from Commerce City, Colo. “But it’s been a really, really good training week. Little by little, I don’t do fast friends. I want us to build the right things in the right moments.”
Two of the players named to the USWNT roster for the international friendlies — captain Lindsey Horan and defender Naomi Girma — alluded Thursday to adjustments Hayes is looking to see from the team, things the new coach slowly started implementing over the last several months through the USWNT’s interim staff while she was still with Chelsea. Hayes and the players have been…
