May 1 (UPI) — Carli Lloyd, the soccer legend who won two World Cup titles and two Olympic gold medals with the U.S. women's national team, announced on social media Wednesday that she is pregnant with her first child.
“The journey to get here has been a roller coaster,” Lloyd wrote on Instagram and X. “We're so excited to be parents. I couldn't have gotten through this without my amazing husband, Brian. He's been really protective.”I go. ”
Lloyd and Ryan Hollins married in 2016. The soccer legend attended Delran High School (Delran, New Jersey) along with the golf pro. They announced that they are expecting a baby in October.
Fellow soccer stars Sam Kerr, Kerry O'Hara, Aitana Bommati and Clint Dempsey congratulated Lloyd on Instagram.
Lloyd, 41, also posted a photo from her stay at the hospital where she was receiving fertility treatment. She detailed her own pregnancy process in her Women's Health article published Wednesday.
Lloyd, who retired from football in 2021, said she underwent multiple IVF treatments starting in April 2023.
“I've felt all the emotions during my career: stress, worry, fear, anxiety, but never felt all the emotions that IVF brought me,” Lloyd told Women's Health. I wrote it in a magazine. “I felt completely out of control.”
Lloyd retired with 316 caps, the second-most caps in U.S. women's national team history behind Kristin Lilly (354). Her 134 goals are second only to Abby Wambach (184) and Mia Hamm (158).
She ranks fifth in assists (64), behind Hamm (147), Lilly (106), Wambach (73) and Megan Rapinoe (73).
She served as captain from 2016 to 2020. Lloyd won gold medals as a member of Team USA at the 2008 Summer Games and she at the 2012 Summer Games. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Games. Lloyd won World Cups with the United States in 2015 and 2019.
She became the first player to score a hat-trick in the final of a women's tournament and was awarded the 2015 Golden Ball, which is awarded to the World Cup's best player.
Lloyd was also part of the second and third place American teams in the 2011 and 2007 tournaments, respectively.
