Carli Lloyd Book Report

Carli Lloyd, professional soccer player of the United States Women’s Soccer Team (USWNT), talks about her ups and downs of her journey to the top of women’s soccer. She starts with when she was little and how she started out playing on the local teams, then growing up to playing on club teams and her high school team. After graduating high school she went on to college a Rutgers and playing soccer their. She also played on the U-21 US team but was kicked off because her coach thought she was ready. Heartbroken by that she was ready to quit till her dad told her to call a James Galanis, head soccer trainer at Universal Soccer Academy. After calling him and deciding that she would train with him she got back on the U-23 US team and made her way
Not making this team hurt her and made her overanalyze everything she did on the field. But she learned to push those thoughts aside and just to go out and put in the extra work. This part inspired me because I have tried out for the Olympic Development Program here in Iowa and did not make the team. From experience I can say this fail makes you over think everything you do and also makes you ask yourself if you really are committed to soccer and that you can overcome this failure. Like her I used that fail as fuel to prove myself and just to work on getting better so when I try out again I can get different
No the language in this book would make the group lose interest because it thoroughly explains the subject of soccer and her life dealing with soccer. No there was not terms used in this book that were unfamiliar because I understand most or maybe all of the terms dealing with soccer. There was visuals of her life and soccer career in the book multiple times. Also, I have seen most of the games she talks about in the book so I can visualise what is happening. These visuals were very helpful because they helped me understand the book even