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ST. PAUL, Minn. — The U.S. women sent Carli Lloyd into status with a 6-0 rout of South Korea connected Tuesday night.
Lloyd didn’t people successful her last match, but it hardly mattered due to the fact that the nighttime was each astir her. Fans chanted Lloyd’s sanction earlier the match, with 1 holding a motion that read: “One More World Cup, Please?”
Lloyd is retiring aft a vocation that includes 2 World Cup titles and a brace of Olympic golden medals. She scored 3 goals successful the opening 16 minutes of the U.S. triumph implicit Japan successful the 2015 Women’s World Cup final.
Lloyd’s last lucifer was her 316th with the nationalist team, the second-most planetary appearances of immoderate player. She scored 134 goals for the United States, third-most successful squad history, on with 61 assists.
Lloyd was subbed retired successful the 65th infinitesimal and sobbed arsenic she near to a lasting ovation by the assemblage of 18,115 astatine Allianz Field. She removed her cleats and pulled disconnected her jersey, revealing different jersey with her joined name, Hollins, emblazoned connected the back.
Lloyd, 39, had hinted she was nearing the extremity of her vocation earlier the Tokyo Olympics. The United States won the bronze medal this summer, with Lloyd scoring a brace of goals successful a 4-3 triumph implicit Australia. She announced plans to discontinue soon thereafter.
She became the archetypal American to people successful 4 antithetic Olympics, and her 10 goals successful the lawsuit are the astir for a U.S. player.
Following the team’s 0-0 gully past week against South Korea successful Kansas City, Kansas, Lloyd passed her No. 10 jersey to Lindsey Horan, who volition deterioration the fig starting successful 2022.
Lloyd made her archetypal quality with the nationalist squad successful 2005 and her vocation reached its precocious constituent with her chapeau instrumentality successful the World Cup final. Her 3rd extremity against Japan was a blistering onslaught from midfield.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Lloyd scored successful a 1-0 overtime triumph implicit Brazil for the golden medal. Four years later, she scored some goals successful the gold-medal lucifer against Japan astatine Wembley Stadium, becoming the lone subordinate to people winning goals successful consecutive Olympic finals.
A New Jersey native, Lloyd has besides played professionally for immoderate 12 years, spanning stints successful the now-defunct Women’s Professional Soccer league and the National Women’s Soccer League. She volition decorativeness disconnected her pro play with the NWSL’s Gotham FC, which has 2 games near successful the regular season.
Against South Korea connected Tuesday, Horan enactment the United States successful beforehand successful the ninth infinitesimal with a extremity that deflected disconnected an opposing player. It was her 24th vocation goal.
An ain extremity enactment the Americans up 2-0 conscionable earlier halftime.
Alex Morgan, who replaced Lloyd, scored successful the 69th infinitesimal to marque it 3-0. Megan Rapinoe added a extremity successful the 85th and Rose Lavelle scored successful the 89th. Lynn Williams capped the scoring successful stoppage time. The U.S. extended its unbeaten streak connected location ungraded to 62 matches.
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👏👏 @CarliLloyd walks disconnected the tract for the past clip successful a @USWNT jersey 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/GTGo4FzVCb
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) October 27, 2021
This is @CarliLloyd, signing off. ⬇️🎤 pic.twitter.com/CZ0841Abdo
— U.S. Soccer WNT (@USWNT) October 27, 2021
316 caps. 2nd astir all-time successful planetary history.@CarliLloyd is connected a antithetic level 📈🇺🇸 #ThankYouCarli pic.twitter.com/4Vtj5HGg94
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) October 27, 2021
😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/qpli4ROrNt
— U.S. Soccer WNT (@USWNT) October 27, 2021
CARLI CARLI LLOYD 🎶 pic.twitter.com/32Aw99yxP7
— U.S. Soccer WNT (@USWNT) October 27, 2021
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