When nobody was watching : my hard-fought journey to the top of the soccer world / Carli Lloyd with Wayne Coffey.
In 2015, the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team Won its first FIFA championship in sixteen years, culminating in an epic final game that electrified soccer fans around the world. It featured a gutsy performance by midfielder Carli Lloyd, who made history that day, scoring a hat trick -- three goals in one game -- during the first sixteen minutes. But there was a time when Carli almost quit the sport. In 2003 she was struggling, her soccer career at a crossroads. Then she found a trusted trainer, James Galanis, who saw in Carli a player with raw talent, skill, and great dedication to the game. What Carli lacked were fitness, mental toughness, and character. Together they set to work, training day and night, fighting, grinding it out. No one worked harder than Carli. And no one believed in her more than James. Despite all the naysayers, the times she was benched, the moments when her self-confidence took a nosedive, she succeeded in becoming one of the best players in the world. This candid reflection on a remarkable turnaround will take readers inside the women's national team and inside the mind of an athlete who willed herself to perform at the highest levels of competition.
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- ISBN: 9780544814622 (hardcover) :
- ISBN: 0544814622 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780544976801 (hardcover signed edition)
- ISBN: 0544976800 (hardcover signed edition)
- Physical Description: 242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Beginnings -- Strikers forever -- Smackdown -- National attention -- One cap at a time -- Coach's crosshairs -- World of trouble -- Olympian and outcast -- Fine china -- Letting go of gold -- Empty Cup -- Wonder in Wembley -- Coaching carousel -- Coaching carousel part II -- Character builders -- Disappearing act -- Addition by subtraction -- World-beater -- Pure gold. |
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Subject: | Lloyd, Carli, 1982- Women soccer players > United States > Biography. Soccer > United States > History. |
Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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“If a player trains when nobody is watching, she might be able to do superhuman things when the entire world is watching. Like scoring a hat trick in the first sixteen minutes of a World Cup final, an eventual 5–2 victory over Japan. Or topping off that hat trick with an astonishing fifty-yard strike from midfield, the greatest goal in U.S. soccer history, a shot so audacious that it's surprising to learn that Lloyd had actually practiced it for years with [James] Galanis on an empty field in New Jersey, far from any crowds.” —Grant Wahl, Sports Illustrated
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