U.S. women's national team head coach Emma Hayes had only 75 days to build toward an Olympic gold medal. It would typically be considered an impossible task for some, but Hayes and the USWNT achieved what many thought they couldn't.

A coach with a long history of stepping on eggshells is aiming at her biggest challenge yet. Can she upend old-minded traditions of how soccer coaches teach women and girls?

Emma Hayes, still in just her first year as head coach of the USWNT, is challenging long-held norms in women's soccer and pushing for a game built around female athletes.