Carli is a 21st-century American feminine of Carl — Old Germanic karl (free man). **Carli Lloyd (born 1982)** — **American soccer midfielder; two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion (2015, 2019); two Olympic gold medals (2008, 2012); FIFA Women's Player of the Year (2015, 2016)**. **Her hat-trick in the first 16 minutes of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final against Japan — including a goal from the halfway line — is among the most iconic single performances in soccer history; she became the first player ever (any gender) to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final**. **Career US Women's National Team total: 134 goals, 316 caps**. **Retired in 2021 as the all-time leading goalscorer in the knockout rounds of FIFA Women's World Cup history**. **National Soccer Hall of Fame (2024)**.
Featured throughout 2010s American soccer.
Carli reduces to eight — the number of World Cup hat-trick.