ON A MISSION TO CHANGE WOMEN'S COACHING | Nothing Stops Us Documentary | Chelsea Women

The challenge is to make sure we are all going to the same place. You know that we are in control of our own destiny. So Emma, ​​would you say it's been an easy journey to get to where you are now? Um, no, I mean, no, look. wrinkles look at gray hair people like Emma Hayes and trainers like Emma Hayes have had to break many barriers to get to this place. I think she was a big driver of why we created the PowerHouse project for me at this time. it's not just about competition it's too shortsighted you know I'm involved in

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's football you have to take a lot of beatings you have a press that doesn't care what you do it's never good enough you know male privilege has been a thing She's always been in the center of football in this country.

She comes from a background that didn't have as many opportunities as these coaches have now. I want

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to receive better salaries. I want women to have opportunities that only I dreamed of. My goal has always been to grow this sport. Fela leads this brilliant final. How do they hold up this time? She has achieved it. Her team has achieved it consecutively. The league and cup doubles for Emma Hayes sum up the spirit of this club. My team has an incredible mentality. we want to win it all win just read all over the place from the beginning I remember going through training courses that always told me cup your ears Emma these are not things for women to listen to and they made sexual references to areas of the pitch, we did an exercise right at the beginning of the session it involved, I remember that and thinking this is ridiculous, but as is often the case, I was only the only female member of these training courses, so you had to put up with it.

If I felt they were wildly inappropriate, there were rarely any references to women's football and if they were it would be more of a symbolic gesture than something of value, so no, I couldn't necessarily sit here right now and tell one person I wanted to be like when I was younger there are a lot of ambitious and hungry young women who just want the opportunity plus the grades with the commitment of Molly and Rosie, they are co-founders of the PowerHouse project, if I'm honest all our careers have been around football. We understand the power of football and what it does for our lives without football and without us having that community growing up, there is no infrastructure or support.

At times in our lives we feel like we don't have that support and we don't have that. community around us and we needed to build it ourselves, we felt there was a key opportunity to create an organization that would provide a platform to centralize all these different women in sport, whether at their level two or UA for B, simply allowing them opportunity to do it. I remember watching it and being like, yeah, I'm definitely going to apply for that and I think at the time you had to do a one minute video, so I liked a day in the life applied through that video.

Yes, and I was successful in I got along well and the rest is history. I loved playing football, especially at school. He was friends with all the boys, so he had a certain social status to be able to play football with them. Bring those soccer balls over YES. Bring the bag. just the soccer balls, I'm pretty sure back then there were rules that a girl had to be on the field, so I was like buzzing because I had to be that girl, okay, basic action we're going to consider for defending the Box is happy to know that Roya is an excellent supporter of the PowerHouse project.

Go back, go back, go back, go, go, go, go, go, press. I remember showing up for the first time at Nike headquarters and they had a bunch of these bags labeled with our names. with a similar kit and I was like, oh, this is serious, good ex

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, let's go like a character, she's someone who yeah, you know you're in and you just want to do well. I want to be closer to you, the PowerHouse project prepares you to follow your UF ban, sometimes you understand imposter syndrome well, you can somehow try to eliminate it, we also need to make sure that you believe that you have the skills and tools behind you to go and participate in any training. qualification and go and get that badge because you can, the barriers are still the same, they really are, but I think one of the best things about the PowerHouse project is that it provides the opportunity for them to have role models to look up to, it's invaluable that That work is doing something that perhaps didn't exist when I was your age, as Nike is a partner of Chelsea Football Club and Chelsea is a big supporter of what we are doing.

On the PowerHouse project they were able to unlock a full-time internship for one of our graduates I got my call from Molly and Rosie, there are amazing opportunities coming up like, what do you think? Yes, Royer, first of all, what a whirlwind. I think the first thing to say is that you're making the case that she joined us this year as part of Project PowerHouse with great knowledge, great experience. I think she has been a very good addition to our program as the current under 15s head coach. It's a lot of planning to review the session planning and analyze the game footage.

The last few minutes to come to work every day and see Emma Hayes. I think it's impossible, as a coach in this sport, not to be inspired by seeing a young person like Royer go through the Powerhouse project and become a coach will only serve as inspiration. How important it is for Chelsea as a club and women's football to develop role models for women, my mom. she was my role model I didn't have a football player I could look up to they didn't exist when I was 10 11 if I were that same girl queuing outside my Wembley pitch I could be talking about being Katie Chapman or whatever and I think There are more girls who are doing that, inspiring themselves at every moment, it's incredible.

I think how she supports and talks openly about women in the game shows that there is room for all women to shine, Lis and Chloe, can you understand? The widest you can see on game day has to be the best feeling - two deep feelings will be tested and K up's long-term ambition for us is to continue creating this community of powerful women in sport and show the young people coming through the game that there are more paths to playing football than just being on the field that comes and it will only happen if we are really brave.

We have been footballers, but we still work on the game full time every day, but we don't play. teams and I think narrative is very important, what else can you be in this game? Go Go. I think it's really important, first of all, that you have the right person to support the development of young players. Well done NBS, ready to transition and of course I like having female models as part of that process, yes, nice chlo. I think we're seeing more and more female coaches coming into the game, now something of a lean champion, which is our under 18s head coach, who hasn't just played the game. the highest level possible the realities are training involves unsociable hours involves many thankless tasks that's good go girl well done set up anyway the benefits of developing players and people to reach their potential outweigh the negatives start high start as high as possible my The ambition is definitely to train at the highest level.

I think 5 years from now, if there isn't a Powerhouse coach versus a Powerhouse coach on the sidelines somewhere, then yeah, we've made a mistake, come on, go, go, a lot of people unfortunately haven't. I don't accept the fact that there is a place for everyone in sport. Negativity and hate are time consuming and certainly not necessary. I would love to see equality across the board when it comes to women as coaches. I don't want to have this. conversations in the next 5 years good test good test we should see more representation we should have more female coaches working throughout the football pyramid in this game and keep trying to play football the way we want it's really very positive Ro is another great example of someone That came more recently, which shows many that it is really possible, so we continue to work on it, we have a choice, are we not going to decide?

You know how we are going to influence the game. I think there is a place for everyone. counting down 1 2 3 3 2 1 J