Carli Lloyd, from the Great Township of Delran, is Retiring
South Jersey native Carli Lloyd is hanging ’em up:
A legendary career comes to a close 🇺🇸🐐 @CarliLloyd has announced her retirement. The soon-to-be announced four #USWNT fall friendlies will be her final matches in a U.S. uniform, closing out a remarkable career. She will finish the @NWSL season with @GothamFC.
— U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (@USWNT) August 16, 2021
Lloyd is 39 years old, from the great township of Delran out there in Burlington County.
She will go down as one of the best U.S. soccer players of all time, men’s team or women’s team. Lloyd has played more than 300 games for the U.S. women and scored more than 100 goals. It’s insane. She won two World Cups, two Olympic gold medals, six Algarve Cups, and four She Believes Cups (those are both invitational tournaments).
The list of individual achievements is ridiculously long, but here it is, from Wikipedia:
- Algarve Cup Most Valuable Player: 2007
- U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year: 2008
- FIFA World Player of the Year Shortlist: 2012, 2015, 2016
- FIFA Puskás Award Nominee: 2015
- NWSL Player of the Week: July 2013, July 2014
- NWSL Player of the Month: July 2015
- NWSL Second XI: 2014, 2015, 2018
- CONCACAF Women’s Player of the Year: 2015
- CONCACAF Goal of the Year: 2015
- FIFA Women’s World Cup Golden Ball: 2015
- FIFA Women’s World Cup Silver Boot: 2015
- FIFA Women’s World Cup All-Star Team: 2015
- FIFA Women’s World Cup Dream Team: 2015
- FIFA Women’s World Cup Goal of the Tournament: 2015
- Women’s Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year Team Sport Award: 2015
- Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year Nominee: 2015
- IFFHS World’s Best Woman Playmaker: 2015
- FIFA World Player of the Year: 2015
- FIFPro: FIFA FIFPro World XI 2015, 2016
- Nominee for 2016 ESPY Award for Best Championship Performance
- The Best FIFA Women’s Player: 2016
- Inductee into New Jersey Hall of Fame: 2017
- IFFHS CONCACAF Best Woman Player of the Decade 2011–2020
- IFFHS World’s Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020
- IFFHS CONCACAF Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020
Ridiculous.
Gotta make sure that final Fall friendly is at Lincoln Financial Field. Carli needs a proper send off in her home region. And then she can go down to Novacare and compete with Jake Elliott for the Eagles’ kicker job.
Congrats to Carli on an immense career. One of the GOATs.
🇺🇸 FIFA & @USWNT legend @CarliLloyd has announced her retirement
👏 Thank you for inspiring so many young footballers across the globe, Carli
🏆 This #FIFAWWC Final strike will never be forgotten ♾ pic.twitter.com/4XQ9yJwPWy
— FIFA Women's World Cup (@FIFAWWC) August 16, 2021
