I’m a US soccer icon but my pro-golfer husband is more competitive than me and our battles get heated
SOCCER legend Carli Lloyd is one of the greatest players the United States has ever produced.
But even the 41-year-old United States Women's National Soccer Team great faces competition at home.
Carli played 316 times for the national team and scored 134 goals during a stunning career.
She retired in 2021 after winning two World Cups and two Olympic gold medals.
The USA legend is currently working as an analyst on Fox Sports' coverage of the Women's World Cup.
She married her high school sweetheart Brian Hollins in November 2016 in an intimate ceremony in Mexico.
READ MORE on The Women's World Cup
Brian has worked as a golf pro and almost qualified for the US Open at Chambers Bay in 2015.
The couple both have a competitive edge - and even went head to head over that subject in an interview with Sports Illustrated.
Brian labeled Carli: "By far the most competitive person I know."
But Carli replied: "He laughs because he says I always go in harder against him. And I’m like, ‘No, you always go harder against me.'
Most read in Soccer
“It gets heated, we’ll lay each other out.
“You know, it’s fun, we get to banter, we get to be outside the relationship lovey-dove type of thing and go battle.”
HEATED OPINION
Carli has caused a stir with her analysis of the USWNT's performance in Australia and New Zealand.
She was brutal in her assessment of the team after they limped through the group stage in second place.
The US was only spared an embarrassing group stage exit by Portugal hitting the post.
Carli said: "You put on that jersey and you want to give it everything you have, for the people that came before you and the people that are gonna come after you, and I'm just not seeing that passion.
"I'm just seeing a very lackluster, uninspiring, taking-it-for-granted [mentality], where winning and training and doing all that you can to be the best possible individual player is not happening."
USWNT captain Lindsey Horan hit back at Carli and said: "I always want to defend my team and say: you have no idea what's going on behind the scenes, you have no idea every single training what we're doing individually, collectively, etcetera.
Read More on The US Sun
"So, for anyone to question our mentality hurts a little bit."
But the US was knocked out in the last-16 over the weekend as it fell to a penalties defeat by Sweden.
