During the United States’s lackluster Women’s World Cup performance, legendary former USWNT midfielder Carli Lloyd emerged as one of the team’s fiercest critics.
First, Lloyd laid into the Americans after they appeared to celebrate a 0–0 draw with Portugal on Aug. 1, saying “the player of the match was [the] post” that deflected a potential Portuguese goal. After the U.S. was eliminated by Sweden in the round of 16, Lloyd told Fox viewers the nation was “failing at the U-17 level [and] failing at the U-20 level.”
Does Lloyd regret her comments, which drew significant commentary by themselves in the United States and beyond? The answer, which she made clear to Richard Deitsch of The Athletic Tuesday morning, is no.
