It was a rivalry that took maintain of the Girls’s Tremendous League and dominated clashes between Arsenal and Chelsea – and now Jonas with Emma Hayes.
Eidevall, following a poor begin to the season, has been introduced as the brand new supervisor of Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League membership San Diego Wave.
It means the Swedish coach will likely be pressured to work and collaborate with Hayes, the supervisor of the USA nationwide workforce.
However in keeping with Eidevall the pair haven’t had a working relationship since Hayes’ feedback after final season’s League Cup closing, which Arsenal received in extra-time.
The after the ultimate whistle and claimed on the touchline.
Emma Hayes and Jonas Eidevall had some push and shove after full time within the Girls’s League Cup closing 🥊
That is the Arsenal boss’ rationalization of what occurred.
Talking for the primary time since leaving Arsenal and taking over his new function, Eidevall advised Swedish newspaper Sportbladet that he and Hayes haven’t spoken since that altercation.
“I used to be very upset by that, very upset,” Eidevall stated. “I’m additionally very upset that she hasn’t been in a position to ship a message or make a name to say that it went improper.
“I received’t be the one to increase a hand both, as a result of I don’t assume I’ve performed something improper or loopy within the state of affairs.
“The way in which I skilled it, it was only a strategy to attempt to hurt me and my individual by means of the media. I took that fairly badly and didn’t assume it turned out nicely in any respect.”
With San Diego having Naomi Girma and different gamers eligible for the US of their ranks, it could be assumed Hayes and Eidevall must talk over their choice for the nationwide workforce.
However Eidevall claimed Hayes didn’t attain out when he had US defender Emily Fox at Arsenal and that the one communication he had was along with her assistant coaches. This, he stated, was in distinction to the best way England supervisor Sarina Wiegman and different nationwide workforce coaches labored.
Eidevall’s departure from Arsenal, which he says was his resolution, got here amid mounting stress from the membership’s supporters. His closing recreation in cost was a 2-1 defeat by Chelsea, after which “Jonas Out” graffiti appeared close to the Emirates Stadium.
In addition to poor outcomes firstly of the season, there was a unfavorable response from followers to the membership’s resolution to let Vivianne Miedema be part of WSL rivals Manchester Metropolis on a free switch. Eidevall pinpoints that because the second supporters began to activate him, although there was additionally a sense he had misplaced the dressing room.
Eidevall additionally took goal at Arsenal for not having a sporting director, which he stated made the job a “lonely place.”
Clare Wheatley is Arsenal’s director of girls’s soccer, a job which incorporates overseeing transfers, contracts and the present seek for a brand new supervisor.
Renée Slegers has been interim supervisor since Eidevall’s departure and appears set to proceed for the foreseeable future.