Carli Lloyd on USWNT and Hall of Fame honor: ‘I played purely for the love of the game

Two-time World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist Carli Lloyd will soon be inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame, and she is not downplaying the moment.

“I never imagined something like this would happen,” Lloyd said Tuesday, a little more than two weeks before her May 3 induction at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas. Behind her hung a U.S. women’s national team jersey with the No. 316 — her number of appearances in her nearly two decades with the team.