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When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated star of the U.S. Womens National Soccer Team, an inspiring, uplifting, and candid memoir of how she got there If a player trains when nobody is watching, she might be able to do superhuman things when the entire world is watching. Like scoring a hat trick in the first sixteen minutes of a World Cup final, an eventual 52 victory over Japan. Or topping off that hat trick with an astonishing fifty-yard strike from midfield, the greatest goal in U.S. soccer history, a shot so audacious that it's surprising to learn that Lloyd had actually practiced it for years with [James] Galanis on an empty field in New Jersey, far from any crowds. Read more