Carli Lloyd did not hold back on the team she once played for.
Nor did she forget from where she came from.
“I’m going to bring my Jersey bluntness,” Lloyd said on the FOX halftime set in Sydney, Australia at the 2023 World Cup.
Analyzing the U.S. women’s national team’s first-half performance against the Netherlands, which left the Americans in a 1-0 deficit, Lloyd did that and then some:
“They look flat,” said Lloyd, a member of the last two World Cup winning teams. “I’m questioning their heart.”
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Fellow analyst Alexei Lalas agreed.
In a longer video posted on Twitter, Lloyd said “I want to see more fight, more urgency.”
A native of Delran, New Jersey, she stayed in state for college at Rutgers and played for three National Women’s Soccer League teams. Lloyd spent part of 2018 with Manchester City on loan.
Internationally, Lloyd, 40, made four World Cup teams and is also a two-time Olympic gold medalist, scoring the game winners in both gold-medal contests. She retired with 316 caps for the international team and is best-remembered for her hat trick in the 2015 final against Japan.
After halftime, Lindsey Horan headed home an equalizer in the 62nd minute.
