The Making of a Football Superpower with Carli Lloyd - An Introduction
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
The Overlap
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to It Was What It Was, the football history podcast.
In our new mini-series, we begin the journey of how women’s football in the U.S. rose to global dominance. And who better to start with than Carli Lloyd - one of the game’s greatest competitors and a key figure in that evolution?
From the early struggles for recognition to back-to-back World Cup triumphs, Lloyd’s career mirrors the relentless fight for respect and progress in the women’s game. She takes us inside the mindset that made her a two-time World Cup winner, an Olympic gold medallist, and the architect of one of the most iconic performances in women’s football history - her stunning hat-trick in the 2015 World Cup final.
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| 0:00.0 | Well welcome to It Was What It Was What It Was with me, Rob Draper and with Jonathan Wilson |
| 0:10.6 | and today we have got an extraordinary guest to kick off our series on The Rise and the dominance |
| 0:17.0 | of US women's football. It is Carly Lloyd. Carly Lloyd is the two-time FIFA |
| 0:23.6 | world player of the year. She scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final. She's a two-time |
| 0:28.1 | world cut winner, two-time Olympic gold medalist. She scored in both those final. Welcome, |
| 0:33.4 | Carly, to it was what it was. So, Carly, if we can just start with your first experience of soccer. |
| 0:39.9 | So you're growing up in Dalai, in New Jersey, which historically certainly in terms of the |
| 0:45.2 | men's game, I think a hundred years earlier had been where soccer really grew in the US. |
| 0:49.8 | And you've talked about how you learned to play, sort of kicking the ball against the curb. |
| 0:54.4 | But I mean, how present was soccer there? |
| 0:56.6 | Was it on TV all the time? |
| 0:58.0 | Were you talking about at school? |
| 0:59.3 | What was that first experience of soccer for you? |
| 1:02.5 | Yeah, well, you know, the town that I grew up in was a very small town. |
| 1:06.2 | It was a middle class working neighborhood. |
| 1:09.3 | You know, nothing extraordinary. |
| 1:14.9 | We had a corner house. So our block had, you know, tons of neighbors, kids. We were always out playing. I was mostly playing sports |
| 1:22.8 | with anyone, you know, girls, boys. And, you know, that was, I was born in 82. So at the age of five, |
| 1:31.4 | I started playing. Nobody in my family played. My parents didn't play. It wasn't something that, |
| 1:37.0 | you know, I just kind of came into because of somebody in the family, my older cousin, who was |
| 1:42.0 | five years older than me, played. But other than that, |
| 1:44.5 | you know, nobody really. So it was just an activity in a sport my parents got me involved in, |
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