USA women's soccer starts gold medal bid Wednesday, Carli Lloyd has accepted annihilation beneath than gold will be adequate for the United States women’s soccer aggregation as it prepares to alpha its Olympic appellation defense.
Lloyd, the captain and brilliant midfielder for the USA, knows that the burden is on as the aggregation strives to win a fourth beeline gold medal, with the attack accepting underway adjoin New Zealand in Belo Horizonte on Wednesday evening. But she wouldn’t accept it any added way.
“I don’t play the action and attempt to accomplish for annihilation beneath than gold,” Lloyd said. “I apperceive that sounds appealing adventurous but that just absolutely is what our aggregation is about. I accept been to two Olympics so far and I am traveling for a third gold medal. That’s the plan.”
France and Colombia are aswell in the USA’s accumulation and if the Americans are able to appearance the aforementioned affectionate of anatomy they produced in the closing stages of endure summer’s Women’s Apple Cup, they may prove absurd to stop.
A aperitive semifinal adjoin Brazil is an arresting possibility, which would aswell be the aboriginal time the aggregation makes it to Rio, with its accumulation amateur demography abode in Belo Horizonte and Manaus and all of the quarterfinals getting staged abroad from the host city.
“I get asked a lot, which is bigger amid the Apple Cup and the Olympics?,” Lloyd said. “With the Olympics it is added of a broader aspect as far as apery the country. You are allotment of such an aristocratic group. It is cool appropriate and it becomes added than just our team, we are allotment of this huge USA team.”
Lloyd, the 2015 FIFA Amateur of the Year of the year and the standout brilliant of the Apple Cup with a beauteous hat-trick in the final, has produced some of her finest moments during Olympic competition.
Now 34, Lloyd denticulate the acceptable ambition in the 2008 gold badge bold adjoin Brazil. Four years after in London, she denticulate both USA goals in a 2-1 celebration over Japan, as the Americans bounced aback from accident the Apple Cup final to the aforementioned action a year earlier.
Lloyd is now durably accustomed as the best women’s amateur in the apple and one of the best in history, and is bent to advance the USA’s ascendancy already more.
“I don't anticipate annihilation compares to the expectations we accept for one another,” co-captain Becky Sauerbrunn said. “We apperceive how difficult it will be to be back-to-back winners. That burden drives us. We consistently attending for that next claiming because we consistently wish to accomplish that next akin of greatness. People apprehend us to win, we apperceive what it in fact takes to win and that comes with a altered akin of accountability and sacrifice.”
Brazil struggled during the Apple Cup but will be buoyed by home advantage, while No.2-ranked Germany hopes for the adventitious to absolve for its semifinal defeat to the USA endure year.
Lloyd, the captain and brilliant midfielder for the USA, knows that the burden is on as the aggregation strives to win a fourth beeline gold medal, with the attack accepting underway adjoin New Zealand in Belo Horizonte on Wednesday evening. But she wouldn’t accept it any added way.
“I don’t play the action and attempt to accomplish for annihilation beneath than gold,” Lloyd said. “I apperceive that sounds appealing adventurous but that just absolutely is what our aggregation is about. I accept been to two Olympics so far and I am traveling for a third gold medal. That’s the plan.”
France and Colombia are aswell in the USA’s accumulation and if the Americans are able to appearance the aforementioned affectionate of anatomy they produced in the closing stages of endure summer’s Women’s Apple Cup, they may prove absurd to stop.
A aperitive semifinal adjoin Brazil is an arresting possibility, which would aswell be the aboriginal time the aggregation makes it to Rio, with its accumulation amateur demography abode in Belo Horizonte and Manaus and all of the quarterfinals getting staged abroad from the host city.
“I get asked a lot, which is bigger amid the Apple Cup and the Olympics?,” Lloyd said. “With the Olympics it is added of a broader aspect as far as apery the country. You are allotment of such an aristocratic group. It is cool appropriate and it becomes added than just our team, we are allotment of this huge USA team.”
Lloyd, the 2015 FIFA Amateur of the Year of the year and the standout brilliant of the Apple Cup with a beauteous hat-trick in the final, has produced some of her finest moments during Olympic competition.
Now 34, Lloyd denticulate the acceptable ambition in the 2008 gold badge bold adjoin Brazil. Four years after in London, she denticulate both USA goals in a 2-1 celebration over Japan, as the Americans bounced aback from accident the Apple Cup final to the aforementioned action a year earlier.
Lloyd is now durably accustomed as the best women’s amateur in the apple and one of the best in history, and is bent to advance the USA’s ascendancy already more.
“I don't anticipate annihilation compares to the expectations we accept for one another,” co-captain Becky Sauerbrunn said. “We apperceive how difficult it will be to be back-to-back winners. That burden drives us. We consistently attending for that next claiming because we consistently wish to accomplish that next akin of greatness. People apprehend us to win, we apperceive what it in fact takes to win and that comes with a altered akin of accountability and sacrifice.”
Brazil struggled during the Apple Cup but will be buoyed by home advantage, while No.2-ranked Germany hopes for the adventitious to absolve for its semifinal defeat to the USA endure year.
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