Legendary former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson showed the ultimate class to one talented manager after he wasted no time in making contact with them.
Sir Alex Ferguson has been out of management since 2013, with the Manchester United legend lifting the Red Devils’ last Premier League title.
The 82-year-old Scotsman had a long-lasting impact on football after his spells with United in England and with Aberdeen in Scotland.
Ferguson achieved incredible success during his legendary spell at Old Trafford, including leading the Red Devils to an iconic treble win in the 1998-99 season.
The Aberdeen legend has remained an ever-present figure at Old Trafford long after his retirement, with Ferguson often spotted in the stands for United matches.
United have struggled to reassert their dominance over English football in the aftermath of Ferguson’s retirement at the end of the 2012-13 season.
Ferguson has remained largely influential among up-and-coming managers and the iconic Scot has shown his class with the support that he has offered them.
Ferguson’s text message to manager
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, former Chelsea Women manager Emma Hayes spoke highly of Manchester United legend Sir Alex Ferguson.
Emma Hayes’ impressive spell with Chelsea Women came to an end at the end of the last Women’s Super League season and subsequently took charge of the US women’s team.
The 47-year-old United States women’s team manager saw immediate success with the national side at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
The four-time Women’s World Cup champions clinched a 1-0 win over Brazil’s women’s team in the final at the Parc des Princes.
Mallory Swanson’s second-half strike ensured that the US women secured their first Olympic gold medal since 2012, including the team’s fifth overall in history.
Hayes has now revealed that former United and Aberdeen manager Ferguson was the first to contact her after the USWNT’s achievement at the Olympics.
“I see so much of myself in him [Ferguson],” she said.
“His was the first text I received when we won gold.”
Hayes on USWNT’s success at Olympics
Emma Hayes, who is widely regarded as one of the best managers in women’s football, said that winning a gold medal at the Olympics was the “pinnacle” for her.
“Coaching the US in the women’s game is like coaching Brazil in the men’s,” she said.
Speaking on USWNT’s Olympics win, Hayes added: “I still get a lump in my throat thinking about it.
“I fill up every time. I have dreamt about it. I have played that out on the pitches by the flats in Camden [on the Curnock Street Estate, north London, where she grew up].”
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