Carli Lloyd
Autor/a de When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World
Sobre l'autor
Carli Lloyd is an American soccer player, born in Delran Township, New Jersey in 1982. She is a midfielder and the co-captain of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team. She scored significant goals in 2008 and 2012 (the team winning the gold medal in both years) and 2016 Olympics. She has played in mostra'n més three FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments, 2007, 2011 and in 2015, winning the gold. Some of her awards include the FIFA Golden Ball (2007) and Silver Boot (2015). She was named FIFA World Player of the Year, 2015. Currently she plays for the Houston Dash in the National Women's Soccer League. She has written a memoir, When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World, with Wayne Coffey. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Carli Lloyd
When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World (2016) — Narrador, algunes edicions — 85 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Lloyd, Carli Anne
- Data de naixement
- 1982-07-16
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Delran Township, New Jersey, USA
- Educació
- Rutgers University
- Professions
- Soccer Player
- Relacions
- Brian Hollins (husband)
Membres
Ressenyes
The stuff about the dynamics and politics of the National Women's Soccer Team was the most interesting part. There were a lot of accounts of big NWST games, which I was less interested in.
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 2
- Membres
- 117
- Popularitat
- #168,597
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 16
If you aren’t a fan of women’s soccer (and if you enjoy sports, you should check it out), you probably hadn’t heard of Carli Lloyd before last summer. She’s been playing for the US Women’s National Team since the early 2000s, but she stepped hard into the spotlight during the World Cup in Canada last year, when she scored three times in the final win over Japan, including a shot basically from mid-field.
Of the memoirs I’ve read recently that involve a co-writer, this one reads the smoothest. I don’t know Ms. Lloyd, and I haven’t seen her interviewed much, but the voice, while a bit stiff, feels genuine. The book follows her journey from player in her New Jersey hometown, through college, and into her professional career. It has much more soccer in it than Abbi Wambach’s memoir from earlier this year, and I loved that. Ms. Lloyd also discusses some of the same incidents that Ms. Wambach did, with a different perspective, which is fascinating for someone like me.
Ms. Lloyd is dedicated as hell, a hard worker, and talented. She says repeatedly she doesn’t like drama, but also says she tells it like it is, and in my experience drama and a lack of desire to choose one’s words carefully almost always go hand in hand. At the same time, I do think Ms. Lloyd is self-aware; she is open about her flaws and how they have impacted her life, especially her relationship with her immediate family (spoiler alert: it’s not a good one).
If you like sports and a bit of an underdog story, I think you’ll like this. But if you don’t enjoy sports, I think there might just be too much technical discussion for this to be a good read.
… (més)