https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg By Carli Lloyd and Wayne Coffey en-us 2019-11-12 19:38:51 UTC 2020-01-20 04:19:00 UTC hello@padlet.com ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/421430370 When Carli was around eleven years old, the first team she played on was Delran Dynamite. During one of the games they fell behind in the first half of the game. Their coach, Mrs. Thornton, tells the team that they needed to score a goal before the game ended. Carli came back to the defensive third of the field and got the ball, dribbled up the field and beat multiple defenders, and shot it. "On the sideline, Mrs. Thornton throws up her arms and shouts her delight. I am eleven years old at the time, and beyond ecstatic, not merely because I've scored a goal but because all the time and effort I've put into practice has paid off..." (15) All of the drills she has done, and all of the practices she has worked hard on had finally paid off with a game-tying goal.
1st experience]]> 2019-12-09 03:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/421430370 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/430546269 Carli's cousin, Jaime, who is a multisport, student athlete is one of Carli's inspirations. Carli doesn't have a big sister to look up to, but her cousin acts as her older sister and is a great role model for her. Jamie is a great example of how you should be not only a good athlete, but a good person as well. She teaches her many lessons that still stick with her. Unfortunately, Jamie had an injury that left her out of playing sports for 9 months. As soon as she can play again, she gets right to it, "I am in awe of Jamie's will and drive. It teaches me a wonderful lesson: there is no substitute for hard work." (17) Although Jamie was out for such a long time, the work that she put in, had her still be the great player that she is, even after she got hurt. This is something that drives Carli to keep going with soccer, and to work hard.
2nd experience]]> 2020-01-12 23:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/430546269 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/430550956 At twelve years old, Carli realizes that she needs more of a competition to play against better players, on a better team. So she goes to a Select tryout. Anytime she has a good play, her head goes up to see if any coach saw her. When she would mess up, her head would go up, and she would hope no one had seen it. The list was posted, "The evaluators have had a good look at everyone and have decided you are not Select quality." (24) Carli did not make the team, but she uses it as a reason to keep driving. Although she did not make the Select team she tried out for, there was a coach in a nearby town that had seen her tryout. She joins the team, the Medford Strikers, and plays as one of their core players. Her will to still play, after she had not made the team kept on driving her to play the best she could, to prove the coaches at the Select team wrong, and that she should have been chosen.
3rd experience]]> 2020-01-13 00:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/430550956 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/431472923 Carli goes to a U-21 camp, where the coach Chris Petrucelli has to choose players to take to Brazil, for the Nordic Cup. After the camp, each player gets an evaluation, and then the list gets posted for the 18 players that get to go. Carli, is not one of those 18. Her coach tells her, "'...the truth is that you are not performing to the level of a national team player'" (35) After this, it really discourages Carli, and she calls her parents and she decides to fly back home to New Jersey. She later decides that she will play her senior year at Rutgers, get a degree, then start to look for a job.
4th experience]]> 2020-01-14 18:18:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/431472923 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/431553305 Not too long after she was cut from the U-21 Women's National Team, Carli meets James Galanis, who is a great coach and trainer, and wants to help her in her development to be a great soccer player. She trains with him for a while, then one time, he asks her what she wants to do with her soccer career, and she wanted to play for the U.S. Women's National Team. James says, "'Mentally, you are weak. You don't push yourself hard and you are lazy, and you aren't the sort of player who is going to thrive under pressure. And your character? That is poor.'" (44) James kept on going on about, how Carli had to put soccer over everything else. She had to work to get to the spot where she wanted to be, and that she has to take some sacrifices to make it there. Even if that means leaving a party, or missing something to train. Carli wasn't bothered by it, and she started to work and train more, and more with James.
5th experience]]> 2020-01-14 20:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/431553305 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/432100109 Lloyd, Carli, and Wayne R Coffey. When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World. Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.]]> 2020-01-15 20:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/432100109 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433222352 Carli went to a camp in Portland, Oregon. The U.S. National Women's Team is setting the roster for the Ukraine match at Merlo field. She wanted to be on the team, so, so badly. She knew that she might not. She was used to it after all. The many times she has failed to make a team. In the circle, while Greg was reading the names, she was on the outskirts. She did not play bad at the camp, but maybe not her best. He read the names, "'Fotopoulos...Markgraf...Milbrett...O'Reilly…' Somewhere in the middle he says: 'Lloyd.'" (60) She made the team. Six days before her twenty-third birthday. Her lifelong dream, finally come true. After all of the hours and hours training. After the failure, and little hope left at times. She had finally done it.
6th experience]]> 2020-01-18 04:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433222352 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433223359 The day before the match, Carli was a nervous wreck. She sits on the bench, and watches her new teammates play. It is not the best competition. They are up 4-0, then Tiffney scores her 100th goal. Last year she had quit, but once there was a new coach, Greg, he brought her back. Not long after Tiffney's goal, Carli gets called to warm up. In the sixty-fourth minute, she goes in for Aly. She makes some good plays, especially one to Heather O'Reilly, "As time winds down I beat a defender and make a quick run up the middle and thread the ball to Heather O'Reilly..." (62)
7th experience]]> 2020-01-18 05:05:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433223359 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433343012 She plays in the Nordic Cup, and ]]> 2020-01-19 04:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433343012 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433343479 Carli played in the Nordic Cup, and her team played well. They were told that they were one of the best U-21 teams there is (she is overage for the team, but the rules do allow a couple over-age players). They rolled straight through, winning every game. They won the Nordic Cup, and not long after, Carli was payed. As she says, "...I get my first payday as a soccer player-a $5,000 Athlete Support Grant from the U.S. Olympic Committee." (64) The money that she got paid wasn't a life changing payday, but it was still a big deal to her, because it shows that she is going in a good direction for her future career in soccer.
8th experience]]> 2020-01-19 04:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433343479 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433349240 Rich Fornaro, Carli's mom's cousin, wants to help Carli with some business and be her agent. Carli is under a contract with U.S. Soccer, and she has endorsements from Nike, Adidas, and Puma. Her family wanted her to accept Rich's offer to be her agent, "'It's great that we can keep this in family and have someone representing you who we can completely trust,' my father tells me." (68) However, after some thought, Carli decided to not take Rich's offer. She did not want to put her mom's job in danger, because she worked for Rich, and her family was mad at her for making one of her first independent decisions, and they think that she really messed it up.
9th experience]]> 2020-01-19 05:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433349240 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433352088 After a scrimmage against San Jose, California, her coach, Greg, was not happy, and he wanted to make sure that they knew that. He called all of the players that were part of the 2004 Olympic team, and split them off into different groups. There were three groups, Greg said to two of the groups that Carli was not in, that they would fight for each other, and that they would do whatever it takes to win. However, to the group that Carli was in, he said, "'You are the people who don't have heart and don't work hard and don't care about the team.'" (85) What he had just said had really unmotivated Carli, and although Greg is the coach, and Carli is a player, saying that they have no heart. Criticism is good, but saying something like that is way too far over the line.
10th experience]]> 2020-01-19 05:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433352088 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433353615 One of Carli's teammates tells her that she needs to re-gain the hearts, and the trust of her team. Her teammate, Abby, also says that her spot on the team is in jeopardy, and that she doesn't fit into the chemistry of the team, when Carli is always in the corner texting, or she doesn't want to join into things and that makes them feel like she doesn't trust her team. Carli was surprised by what Abby had said to her and she might loose her job because her own teammates might not want her to be on the team.
11th experience]]> 2020-01-19 06:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433353615 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433355048 Carli flew out to South Korea with her team, for the Peace Cup. When she is playing against Brazil, she went for a header and hits her nose. Blood starts to gush, but Carli didn't even realize that she had hurt her nose, until the trainer and doctor come onto the field telling her that she had broken her nose. She is then subbed out and they take her to the locker room, and with no warning whatsoever, the doctor snaps her nose back into place. She is then given a mask that protects her nose from getting hurt again, and in her next game she wears it as well.
12th experience]]> 2020-01-19 06:19:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433355048 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433356011 In the finals of the Olympics against Brazil, they go into overtime. Carli has an amazing ball back from Amy, and Carli hits it to the right corner. It goes in. In the sixth minute of overtime, Carli scored a goal, but it is not over yet. There was still twenty four minutes left in overtime, which gives Brazil some time to score. Carli has another opportunity to score, and shoots a left-footer to the goal at the far post, but it hits off of it. One last play until the game is over. One of the forwards curve the ball to a player in the box, and gets a head onto it. A low header, but Hope saves it. The whistle is blown. They had won the Olympics. With all of the hard working 120 minutes that everyone had played. There were so many little plays that helped them to score, and win.
13th experience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF-LKl1gbyk ]]> 2020-01-19 06:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433356011 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433357480 When Carli gets home from the Olympics, there is a parade in Delran held in her honor. It has the high school marching band, lots of fire trucks, an police cars, and many little kids with their soccer uniforms on. All of her old soccer coaches were there as well. It started at the field that she used to play at, and went all the way to the football field. She rode on the top of a fire truck in her black dress, with her gold medal around her neck. At the football field, there were many politicians that gave speeches, and everybody stated to talk about her. She was very happy that she could share, and celebrate her achievement in the Olympics with everyone.
14th experience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFCJtcthvNc ]]> 2020-01-19 06:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433357480 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433363769 In a game against Brazil for the World Cup, at first they score an own goal. Then Rachel Buehler blocks a player in the box and gets sent off of the field with a red card. They were then playing one player down, and again, the game goes into overtime. In the 121st minute, Pinoe launches the ball to the far post, and it goes to Abby, who heads the ball right into the goal. The game was tied, the whistle was blow. It was time for penalty kicks, "Boxxy buries the first PK. I step up and do the same, and when Hope makes a stunning stop with an all-out dive to her left, we have the sliver of an opening we need. Ali Krieger finishes it off with a low shot just an inch or two inside the left post, and the party is on." (132) 
15th experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDS_QLYcWbg (Carli is the second player who takes the shot in black)]]> 2020-01-19 08:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433363769 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433364621 In the game against Japan in the World Cup, they get into their side of the half, and they start to attack over, and over again, with little passes. Later in the sixty-ninth minute, Pinoe sends in a ball to Alex Morgan, who dribbles the ball, and shoots it into the far corner. Again, the pair team up again, and Alex crosses the ball to Abby and she heads the ball right into the back of the net. Later Japan gets another goal, which ties the game back up 2-2. They go into penalty kicks. Carli takes a kick, just like the one when she went against Brazil. She shot for the upper left corner, and she missed. It went right over the crossbar. They lose, against Japan.
16th experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GrKdl_3O6g ]]> 2020-01-19 08:13:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433364621 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433499523 After a fight with her parents from a while ago, Carli's brother, Stephen, asks if he can go over to Carli's to talk, and they talk a little small talk at first, but then they get into bigger issues, like with their parents. Stephen explains that it hurts their mom and dad to be in the position that they are in, and that they think that Carli is giving James (her trainer) too much credit for all of the things that she has accomplished. She then invites her parents over for a later time.
17th experiment]]> 2020-01-20 02:40:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433499523 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433501991 When her parents come over, she gives them a tour of the house, and they start to compliment her on how nice it is, and they are proud of her for doing so much to get a beautiful home like she has. Then they started to resolve things and she learned that her dad had to have heart surgery, and that he was rushed to the hospital. Carli owned up to everything that she did, and they were all good like a family again.
18th experiment]]> 2020-01-20 02:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433501991 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433505167 When Jill becomes the coach of the team, she loves the way that Carli plays. She is also not as mean in her criticism as the old coach, Greg, was. During the World Cup with Jill, she shows Carli some of the various fouls that Carli has gotten, and Jill tells her, "'We just need you to be careful,'" (187). She also tells her that she doesn't need to change her game, but they wanted her to make good tackles, and win the ball, but not with too much aggression that gives up the ball for a foul.
19th experience]]> 2020-01-20 03:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433505167 ahunakai000 https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433509538 For their game against Japan (again), Carli wears the captains arm band once again. All of the set pieces were designed by assistant Tony Gustavsson, and Carli gets the first corner kick. Jill was the kind of coach that didn't tell her players what to do, because she knows that they are all grown women playing on her team. During the first few minutes of the game, Carli proves just why she is wearing the captains band on the team. Pinoe takes an amazing corner, and Carli darts right after it. An amazing ball, and an amazing run.  She went up to kick it, and it went right to the left of the goal, with the keeper having no chance of saving it. They end up scoring a total of four goals against the Japanese in the first sixteen minutes. They had won the World Cup, and everyone ran onto the field cheering for the U.S.
20th experience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBosyOJ3PIY ]]> 2020-01-20 03:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ahunakai000/cqfzkfwdmfsg/wish/433509538