Key players for the future of USWNT, featuring Carli Lloyd

What's up everyone? Carly Lloyd here, former professional soccer player, two-time World Cup champion, and this is Players Breakdown. In this episode, I am going to break down three up-and- coming U.S. Women's National Team players. Let's check them out. Sophia Smith, a forward, she has really been coming into her own. She's been taking on this new role of being a leader. She's been scoring she can score from so many different angles so many different positions on the field and she just honestly makes so much happen so I'm really excited to see what she's gonna continue to bring to this team as she's gonna be a very important piece I think for her being named the youngest MVP it's it's a precedent that she's setting she knows her value she's confident she takes care of herself both on and off the field she's uber competitive and I think that you know her potential is ultimately up to her. The sky's the limit for her and she's really set herself apart as a very big goal scoring threat. Naomi Girma, she plays defender, central defender. You often don't see a player this young, this inexperienced coming in and playing with so much confidence, calmness and poise. Her positioning's great and she's just honestly really good overall as a central defender. I'm really excited to see Naomi really just continue to evolve as a player. I think that she already is calm, cool, collected, poised. She doesn't often get rattled or get nervous on the ball. She's just really good on the ball, can play a wide variety of passes. And coming in inexperienced as a center back to play with that much confidence already and calmness is pretty amazing. So I'm excited to kind of see how she continues that on in bigger pressure moments, but she's been fun to watch. Trinity Rodman, forward. Trinity has been doing so well just as far as her unpredictability. She's done tremendously well in the NWSL for Washington Spirit, and she's a competitor through and through. I love the pace that she has, and she's really showing the qualities that she can bring to help the US Women's National Team. I think what makes Trinity stand out from other younger players is her ability to be unpredictable, her ability to play with that chip on her shoulder, but be confident, but also be a student of the game and learn and try to get better. And so she's fun to watch, you know, anything is possible with her. And she's really set herself apart in the NWSL and now has translated that to the US Women's National Team. Alyssa Thompson, forward. Alyssa Thompson has come into the league from high school. And I have never seen a player of her caliber that young playing so well. She mixes up her game. She knows when to take players on. She knows when to dish it off. She's not afraid to take shots from all different angles. And she's got incredible pace. I mean, it's unbelievable that she's just come from high school, into the pros, and it's like she hasn't skipped a beat. I mean, she's scoring goals, she's helping Angel City FC. She's doing so well to bring so much to her game. The advice I would give Alyssa is to try to block out the pressures, to try to block out the noise of all of the externals that's coming with that. People are gonna start to expect she scores all the time and expect her to do this and expect her to do that, and I think it's so important for a younger player to not get too ahead of yourself and to try to stay in the moment and to just keep enjoying it one step at a time. I just finished breaking down players who I believe are going to have bright futures on the U.S. Women's National Team. Make sure to check out more episodes of Players Breakdown. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe.