‘Tom Cruise walked in and all of my sisters, nieces and nephews had been there – he mentioned, “I believed you mentioned only a picture with mum, not the entire household!”‘: Chelsea legend remembers encounter with Hollywood actor at 2024 Olympics

January 5, 2025

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As Tom Cruise cheered on the US ladies’s soccer workforce on the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Chelsea legend Emma Hayes took her alternative to try to get a photograph with the Hollywood actor.

Hayes, who spent 12 years profitable numerous trophies with Chelsea ladies, was taking cost of the USWNT for the primary time on the Olympics, and had guided them to the ultimate at Paris’ Parc des Princes to tackle Brazil.

Forward of his abseiling look on the closing ceremony a day later, Cruise was among the many celebrating USA followers.

Tom Cruise ambushed by Emma Hayes’ household at Olympics

PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 10: Tom Cruise attends the women's football Gold Medal match between Brazil and USA during the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Parc des Princes on August 10, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Karwai Tang/Getty Images)

Cruise cheers on the USWNT (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)

Hayes tells FFT: “He was within the field subsequent door to my household, and my mum went to introduce herself. His safety mentioned, ‘Yeah, he’ll come and have a photograph with Emma’s mum, no downside’.

“As he went in, all of my sisters had been there and all of my nieces and nephews – Tom walked in and mentioned, ‘I believed you mentioned a photograph with mum, not the entire household!’”

Smiling on the absurdity of all of it, Hayes continues: “He met my sisters and so they all had a chat, grabbed a photograph and had a Hollywood second with him. They completely liked it.

PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 10: Emma Hayes, Head Coach of Team United States celebrates after Mallory Swanson #9 of Team United States (not pictured) scores her team's first goal during the Women's Gold Medal match between Brazil and United States of America during the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Parc des Princes on August 10, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images)

Hayes managed her aspect to gold (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)

“I by no means obtained to fulfill him, however I obtained the entire movies. I mentioned to mum, ‘How was that?’ She mentioned, ‘Effectively, it was pretty to fulfill him, however it will have been good if it was Kevin Costner…’ She likes watching Yellowstone. I mentioned, ‘All proper, I’ll save the Kevin Costner look for an additional time, mum!’”

Although she’s now a global supervisor, Hayes’ seven league titles, achieved within the area of simply 9 seasons, places her 5 away from every other supervisor in WSL historical past. Her file may stand for a really very long time.

She additionally received 5 FA Cups and FIFA’s Finest Ladies’s Coach award for 2021, the 12 months she led Chelsea to their first Ladies’s Champions League ultimate.

The time for change had slowly been approaching, nonetheless. Requested whether or not she would nonetheless be Chelsea boss had the USA job not come alongside, she admits that she’s not sure.

“I don’t know,” she says. “I do genuinely really feel like I’d given every little thing I may to Chelsea – I don’t suppose I may have given one other a part of myself. I believe that was carried out. However I nonetheless should preserve working, and I need to preserve pushing myself. It simply felt prefer it was the proper time, the proper job.”

‘Tom Cruise walked in and all of my sisters, nieces and nephews had been there – he mentioned, “I believed you mentioned only a picture with mum, not the entire household!”‘: Chelsea legend remembers encounter with Hollywood actor at 2024 Olympics

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