Carli Lloyd has been called up to the U.S. women’s national team camp for the last time.
The NJ/NY Gotham FC player will join 20 other players for a pair of friendlies against South Korea to mark the end of her illustrious USWNT career after she announced her retirement in September.
Lloyd will finish with 316 caps for the American side, the second-most in U.S. history after Kristine Lilly, who recorded 354. The NWSL star also walks away having recorded the third-most goals with 134, behind Mia Hamm and Abby Wambach.
"I think throughout the course of my career - I've just been this, you know, tough as nails, iced out Carli. And I haven't shown much emotion throughout my career, I've just been flipping the chapters, one chapter after the next getting ready preparing, and I've now reached the last chapter.
"I'm just literally saving savoring every moment I'm out on the pitch, whether it's a training field whether it's grinding away doing stuff on my own, with my team. Just, just trying to soak it all in because I know once, once that final whistle comes, and I walk off the field for the last time. It's going to be extremely hard,” she said in September.
