Carli Lloyd's Career Is Over. Is She Finally At Peace?
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Carli Lloyd officially retired on Sunday as one of America's most decorated and celebrated soccer players. She's won everything from the World Cup to Olympic Gold Medals to FIFA World Player of the Year. Perhaps more than the achievements on the pitch, Lloyd was known for her maniacal drive and singular focus to become one of the best players to ever lace up a pair of cleats. But that approach also had its downsides – during her career the iconoclastic midfielder clashed with coaches, the media, and even her own family. Today, The Athletic's Meg Linehan tells us how Lloyd is processing the end of her sometimes tumultuous career and whether or not, at the end of it all, the USWNT legend is finally at peace.
Read Meg Linehan's story about Carli Lloyd: https://theathletic.com/2909879/2021/10/25/im-at-peace-carli-lloyd-seeks-a-special-ending-to-a-career-long-chase-for-greatness/
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| 0:45.0 | 34 years playing this beautiful game. It has been an honor. And I hope that you know that I gave it everything I had for every single one of you. |
| 1:03.0 | Late last month, soccer legend Carly Lloyd played her final game with the US Women's National Team |
| 1:09.0 | and gave a heartfelt speech after the match. |
| 1:12.0 | Thank you enough. And that is it. I am signing off. You will not see me on the field, but you best believe that I will be around helping this game grow. |
| 1:28.0 | Lloyd has won just about everything there is to win in the sport. |
| 1:32.0 | Two World Cups, two Olympics. She's a two time world player of the year. |
| 1:36.0 | But along the way, she shut out many of the people around her. So as she walks away from the game that made her a global icon, |
| 1:45.0 | is she happy? The athletics Meglynhan recently scored a rare interview with Lloyd and she joins us to discuss. |
| 1:52.0 | She's actually allowing herself to feel these emotions and to actually experience the crowd and to take more moments in with her teams and to have that final bus ride. |
| 2:03.0 | She's now kind of looking at that greater context of her career and how she approached it. |
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| 2:19.0 | Meglynhan, welcome back to the show. |
| 2:21.0 | Thank you for having me once again. |
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