At 65 minutes of Tuesday night’s U.S. national team game against South Korea, an era of American soccer came to an end.
When Carli Lloyd came into the national team, she played alongside 1999 World Cup winners like Kristine Lilly, Briana Scurry and Christine Pearce Rampone.
When she started on Tuesday in her 316th and final USWNT cap, Lloyd was joined on the field by Sophia Smith and Catarina Macario – players who weren’t even born when the USWNT memorably lifted the World Cup on home soil.
The past and the future intersected at Allianz Field in St. Paul as fans got a chance to bid farewell to a legend while also getting a taste of what's to come.
