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When Nobody Was Watching
My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World
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Narrated by:
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Lynde Houck
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Carli Lloyd
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Written by:
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Carli Lloyd
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Wayne Coffey
About this listen
From the celebrated star of the US Women's National Soccer Team, an inspiring, uplifting, and candid memoir of how she got there.
In 2015, the US Women's National Soccer Team won its first FIFA championship in 16 years, culminating in an epic final game that electrified soccer fans around the world. It featured a gutsy, brilliant performance by team captain and midfielder Carli Lloyd, who made history that day, scoring a hat trick - three goals in one game - during the first 16 minutes.
But there was a time when Carli almost quit the sport. In 2003 she was struggling, her soccer career at a crossroads. Then she found a trusted trainer, James Galanis, who saw in Carli a player with raw talent, skill, and a great dedication to the game. What Carli lacked were fitness, mental toughness, and character. Together they set to work, training day and night, fighting, grinding it out. No one worked harder than Carli. And no one believed in her more than James. Despite all the naysayers, the times she was benched, moments when her self-confidence took a nosedive, she succeeded in becoming one of the best players in the world.
This candid reflection on a remarkable turnaround will take listeners inside the women's national team and inside the head of an athlete who willed herself to perform at the highest levels of competition.
©2016 Carli Lloyd (P)2016 Random House AudioWhat listeners say about When Nobody Was Watching
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- Husam Farah
- 2019-07-08
Required Reading for my Family
This is an Incredible story about overcoming adversity through hard work to become the World's best. There are some excellent lessons for youngsters. My only criticism is that I don't enjoy books written in the present. Regardless, this was thoroughly enjoyable.
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- Spectrum Photography
- 2021-07-10
Carli Lloyd deserves a better book than this.
I’m a big Carli Lloyd fan and I’m feeling like I shouldn’t have read this book.
It is awful.
The book is a running diatribe about drama (be it player drama, coach drama, or parent drama), a narrative on coaches tiptoeing around Carli’s seemingly plate glass fragile metal state, or the narrator commentating every friendly, game and practice in a style befitting a high school yearbook rundown of last weeks city quarter finals.
There is no insight into the world of international soccer. I can’t decide if it’s the writing or the narration but the whole book sounds like a teenage valley girl recounting interactions in a language reminiscent of discussion around the lunch table in 10th grade. It’s that bad.
I’m a big women’s soccer fan. It deserves far more publicity and hype than it has and one of its biggest and best stars needs a better book than this.
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