Carli Lloyd’s World Cup dominance: By the numbers

SPORTSAREENA.comJuly 7, 2023

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By the FOX Women’s World Cup Research Team

It has been eight years since Carli Lloyd scored her historic hat trick in opposition to Japan in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup remaining, a feat that earned her the Golden Ball as the event’s greatest participant and secured the United States women’s national team its third World Cup.

Lloyd is returning to the World Cup stage in 2023, this time as a broadcaster with FOX Sports at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

But first, let’s have a look again at her legendary profession with the USWNT by the numbers.

316 — Lloyd earned 316 caps in 17 years with the United States, which is the second-most all-time behind Kristine Lily, who holds the all-time girls’s file.
134 — Lloyd discovered the again of the web 128 occasions, making her the highest-scoring attacking midfielder in USWNT historical past. She’s additionally third on the USWNT’s all-time scoring checklist behind Mia Hamm (158) and Abby Wambach (184).
38 — Lloyd surpassed Kristine Lily as the oldest participant to attain for the United States in 2021 at 38 years and 332 days.
16 — It took simply 16 minutes for Lloyd to attain her hat trick in the 2015 Women’s World Cup remaining, which is the quickest in the historical past of the event, males’s or girls’s. She was additionally the first participant to ever rating a hat trick in a World Cup remaining; France’s Kylian Mbappe turned the second in 2022.
6 — With 4 targets in the 2015 Womens’ World Cup and two targets in the 2019 Women’s World Cup, Lloyd set a brand new file for the most consecutive video games with at the least one purpose at the event.
2 — Lloyd has received two World Cups (2015, 2019) and two Olympic gold medals (2008, 2012). She was additionally a part of the United States groups that completed as runners-up at the 2011 Women’s World Cup and as bronze medalists at the 2021 Olympics.
1 — Lloyd is the solely participant in the World Cup historical past — males’s or girls’s — to attain a hat trick in regulation; Mbappe’s third purpose was scored in further time.