Two World Cup golds, two Olympic golds and twice selected as the world’s best player. After two decades at the top, Carli Lloyd chooses to put his football boots on the shelf. But before that, one of the sport’s biggest will play four more international matches.
A hat trick in a World Cup final was the highlight. Two goals that fixed an Olympic medal a suitable final vignette.
And she will forever be remembered as one of history’s greatest football players.
But the 39-year-old Carli Lloyd revealed today that she will end her career at the top level later this autumn, both in the national team and in the club team.
She was 21 years old when she made her first international appearance in July 2005. After he she played unimaginably 312 times for the USA, only her friend Kristine Lilly with 354 has made more A-international appearances.
– Just every time I stepped out on the field, I played as if it was my last match. I never wanted to take anything for granted, Lloyd writes in a press release to the media today.
20 goals in the World Cup and Olympics
Before the end of her fantastic career, she will play four more international matches for the USA against as yet unnamed opposition. In addition, she will complete the current season with her club NJ / NY Gotham FC.
Carli Lloyd has played 25 matches in the World Cup finals and 22 matches in the Olympics. The United States has won a total of 88 percent of all matches in which Lloyd has participated and lost only 17 of the 312 she has been on the field in.
She has scored a total of 10 goals in the World Cup and 10 goals in the Olympics and has been involved in winning both tournaments twice.
The most magical sequence during an incredible career was probably during the 2015 World Cup final when she scored three goals in the space of 17 minutes when the USA beat Japan 5-2.
And Lloyd also quits while she’s at the top. At the Olympics in Tokyo this week, she scored two goals in the bronze match when the USA beat Australia 4-3, a result that meant that Carli Lloyd had to go home from her last major tournament with a medal around her neck.
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