City are establishing themselves as a dominant force in English women’s football (Wembley Stadium/Twitter) Back in 2012, Carli Lloyd made her mark at Wembley when she scored both goals in the U.S.’s 2–1 win over Japan in the Olympic gold medal match. On Saturday, she returned to Wembley with Manchester City to face Birmingham in the …
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Carli Lloyd scores on her Champions League debut, wears strange shirt number
№55? What? (Man City) Two-time FIFA World Player of the Year Carli Lloyd scored on her Women’s Champions League debut for Manchester City, providing the only goal in the first leg of their quarterfinal against Fortuna Hjorring. https://streamable.com/qgcgx This shouldn’t be terribly surprising. What was a bit curious, however, was the shirt number Lloyd wore …
FIFA shocked to learn that Carli Lloyd isn’t the only women’s player in the world
A startling revelation from The Best FIFA Football Awards FIFA executives and voters were surprised to learn that U.S. captain Carli Lloyd was not the only women’s footballer playing the game over the last 12 months. Lloyd won FIFA’s women’s player of the year award for the second consecutive year despite only reaching the quarterfinals of …
Gabriel Batistuta was the worst at FIFA’s The Best Awards
A sexist remark from the former Argentina international belittled the players he was meant to honor (FIFA/Twitter) FIFA’s The Best awards, a reworked version of what used to be the Ballon d’Or gala, was promising for fair treatment of women’s soccer. At least, it seemed relatively promising by FIFA standards. Specifically, it was good to see …
Kealia Ohai sets new record for fastest debut goal in U.S. women’s team history
Lynn Williams held the record for four whole days (US Soccer) Houston Dash striker Kealia Ohai made her international debut in the 81st minute of the U.S.’s friendly against Switzerland and 48 seconds later, she scored to cap off a 5–1 win. In doing so, she set a new record for the fastest U.S. women’s national …
If footballers had walk-up music
By Gaby Kirschner [W]ith Major League Baseball’s 2016 season imminently upon us, the question must be asked: what if our best soccer players played baseball? Two things would be for certain: Cristiano Ronaldo would definitely refuse to wear a batter’s helmet because it would mess up his hair, and these would definitely be a few …
The very best of the 2015 Ballon d’Or gala
Lets get nuts and do some awards for an award show, shall we? Best dressed: Paul Pogba (honorable mention: Samuel Eto’o) Paul Pogba is from the future. A very ornate future. Most prepared nominee: Aya Miyama Of all the night’s award nominees, only one was smart enough to bring a ball and a pen for …
Carli Lloyd is a National Treasure
Last week’s top soccer moments By Dan Stelly | Photo via Ann-Marie Sorvin What more can you say about American midfielder Carli Lloyd? Her first-half hat trick — including this stunner from midfield — led the USA to its first World Cup triumph since 1999. [Source: Streamable] Freddy Adu sighting! The well-traveled American scored a fine free kick for KuFu …
Japanese fans reacting to Carli Lloyd going Super Saiyan in the Women’s World Cup final
Carli Lloyd completes hat trick in Women’s World Cup final with shot from the halfway line IN THE 16TH MINUTE
You know how cup finals are usually tightly contested affairs that take time to develop and can be decided by the slimmest of margins? That did not happen in the 2015 Women’s World Cup final. When the U.S. spoke about getting revenge against the team that beat them on penalties in the 2011 final, it …