Carli Lloyd

Some Lesser Known Facts About Allyson Felix

• Does Carli Lloyd smoke?: Not Known

• Does Carli Lloyd drink alcohol?: Not Known

• Carli has won the Olympic gold medal twice and has been the FIFA Women’s World Cup champion and FIFA Player of the Year. 

• She scored a hat trick in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup, leading the team to win another gold.

• Lloyd is the only person who has scored three goals in the FIFA Women’s World Cup and the the second player in soccer to score a hat trick in the history of senior FIFA World Cups, after Sir Geoff Hurst.

• She is a Golden Ball Trophy and the Silver Boot recipient for her six goals and one assist performance in the tournament.

• Carli started playing Soccer when she was only five years old and spent a lot of time playing with the boys. She was exceptional with the ball control and passing the ball from the midfield in the school.

• Numerous awards at the state and national level were awarded to her during her junior years.

• She has appeared on the shows Good Morning America, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Live with Kelly and Michael and in the popular Glamour, Shape and Sports Illustrated magazines.

• There is an ice cream named after her at a local ice cream shop, which is called “Carli’s Cake Batter Cookie Dough Kick”.

• Carli was not on the 2012 Olympics original team, she was brought on-board to replace the injured player Shannon Boxx.

• She does not sleep without earplugs.

• She used to smack her lips so much that she developed a ring around them and was called “four lips” by her kith and kin.

• Lloyd loves to make to-do lists.

• She was the first one to get a driving license in the group and cruised around blasting music.

• Carli was not a cat person but she loved it once she got one, named Buster.

• She used to swim with her local town team till she was 18 and backstroke was her favorite.

• Lloyd trains on the holidays too because her coach always cited examples of the kinds of Muhammad Ali. Christmas is her favorite time of the year though.

• She doesn’t like Valentine’s Day and Peas.

• She has a sort of infatuation towards planes and has a wish to sit in the cockpit with the pilots, while they are flying the plane.