Carli Lloyd Essay

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“You have to fight harder, dig deeper, and prove all of the doubters wrong.” ~Carli Lloyd Carli Lloyd was named the top player of the 2015 Fifa Women's World Cup. She works hard at everything she does. Not only does she train almost every day and play professional soccer, but she also stands up for women's rights. Carli has been an advocate for “equal pay, equal play” in the Women's soccer league. For these reasons she is someone I am proud to say I look up to. Like many other athletes, she has had struggles to get to the top. Yet, she still manages to be one of the best, and fight for what she believes is right. Carli Lloyd background Carli Lloyd was born July 16, 1982 in Delran Township, NJ. Carli Lloyd has played soccer since she was five years old. She became a soccer star and later went on to playing at Delran High School. After high school she played at Rutgers University, (“Early Years and Schools.”) Carli Lloyd has had many accomplishments in her soccer years. At age 34 she is still making amazing accomplishments. She made history in the world cup by having the fastest hat trick in a U.S.A womans soccer game, …show more content…

Since soccer has been her life her family and her were not that close. Because of some the decisions Carli has made that her parents disagreed with they have had different opinions. Carli says, ““When my father had open-heart surgery, nobody told me until well afterwards,” she writes. “When my sister got married, I was not invited.” This was hard for Carli because she had no other than her trainer James, and her boyfriend Brian to tell all of her great accomplishments to. Another challenge Carli faced was not getting the same amount of pay as the Men's U.S.A soccer team did. The women's team is one of the best in the world and they were not getting paid as much as the men's team. Carli had to stand up the federation when no one else

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