Carli Lloyd is officially a soccer Hall of Famer, elected in first year of eligibility
Add one more title to Carli Lloyd’s long list.
Lloyd, a two-time World Cup champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist, is now a Hall of Famer. She’s one of the five people chosen for this year’s National Soccer Hall of Fame class, which will be inducted May 3 in Frisco, Texas.
Lloyd was elected her first year of eligibility. She retired in 2021 after making 316 appearances for the U.S. women’s national team, second only to Kristine Lilly. She is fifth on the international scoring list, her 134 career goals behind only Christine Sinclair, Abby Wambach, Mia Hamm and Cristiano Ronaldo.
It’s not her stats that define Lloyd’s career, however. It’s the impact she made when she was on the field. Of the nine titles the U.S. women have won at the Olympics and World Cup, Lloyd is directly responsible for three of them.