After more than 20 years of her football career, Carli Lloyd announced her retirement on Monday, setting aside one of the most prominent women’s football careers in history. Two of his goals were included in the back of the net to give the United States two gold medals in Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 and London 2012. In Tokyo 2020 he was part of the team that won the bronze medal.
Lloyd became a two-time world champion with the United States women’s national team, where she also managed to be aHe ranked second in the number of matches he played (299) and the fourth best scorer with 124 goals.
Carli Lloyd took his first steps when, at the age of five, he began developing soccer skills and began training for hours on a training pitch not removed from his New Jersey home.
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Lloyd built his character and improved his game during high school. In high school he excelled Delran and was twice the Player of the Year. Her career began gaining attention when she became Rutgers University’s all-time top scorer. She was also selected three times for the NSCAA All-America Team.
The passage of time put Lloyd in the US youth team. Although the footballer began to admit it, she considered retiring from the sport due to the exclusion she suffered from the rest of the group.
However, Carly made his US national team debut in July 2005, in a match against Ukraine. Two years later, she carried out her first participation in the World Cup where she was crowned the world champion. She established herself as a key piece in this team, which saw her take part in a leading role in the 2008 Olympic Games.
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During his first Olympic adventure, he scored the only goal that the United States beat Japan in the group stage, then returned to the scoreboard, in overtime, to defeat Brazil in the final. Her performance allowed her to be recognized as the best female footballer of the year in the United States.
From that moment on, his career centered on the United States national football, having passed Women’s Red Stars in Chicago, Sky Blue and Atlanta Pete. In 2011 she became the World Cup champion for the second time. A year later, during London 2012, Lloyd started the Olympic tournament from the bench, but the injury of his partner Shannon Boxes allowed him to return to the main line-up and the candy would become the champion of that tournament, scoring two goals in the victory. Japan has to become a two-time Olympic champion.
during the world cup 2015, Lloyd became the captain of the US national team. In addition, he returned to shine with his participation in various captions for the national team. In addition to having the nickname together, she was given a nickname Ballon d’Or for being the best football player of the tournament.
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Following that feat, in 2016 Lloyd approached several of her fellow enlisted men to protest and file a federal complaint about wage discrimination. Today she is one of the highest paid football players in the world. Well, in addition to his salary in the teams he played for, Lloyd won millionaire agreements for his image, along with the most prestigious American sports brands.
During the last years of her career, Carly became one of the main faces of women’s football and an ambassador for the sports brand Nike, with whom she entered into a multi-year contract for her image.
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