Carli Lloyd Article
Hello, I saw you were looking for the article about Carli Lloyd in Talk:Philadelphia. I believe I have found the correct one on Newspapers.com. I'm not entirely sure how to best share it with you, so I just had it transcribed to plain text and have it below. Note, this was actually from the Philadelphia Inquirer, NOT the Daily News as you had suspected:
Carli Lloyd: A Bear Necessity
By Marc Narducci
INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
DELRAN — Carli Lloyd is almost a contradiction on the soccer field. After all, how can someone with such a soft, deft touch on the ball unleash such a powerful shot? And how can someone who is a proven scorer say she prefers to pass the ball?
There is, however, one thing about Lloyd that is hard to contradict: She is among the most complete players in South Jersey, and perhaps the most complete. Lloyd, a 5-foot-5 junior midfielder for Delran, is a master distributor. She also can score, and this year, that should happen more frequently on a young but talented Bears team. Her ball control is impeccable, and when needed, she can rifle a shot that would blister the hands of the best goalie.
At Delran, which has produced such prolific players as Peter Vermes, a former member of the U.S. World Cup team, and three-time high school all-American Boo Schubert, the mantle has been passed to Lloyd. Don’t think she will be overwhelmed by being Schubert’s successor. After all, Lloyd scored a goal against a World Cup team this summer. So replacing a three-time all-American who is now a freshman at the University of Florida isn’t a burden.
"I loved playing with Boo, and she taught me a lot," Lloyd said. "But she was more of a scoring type, and I’m there to distribute the ball. I know people will compare us because we went to the same school, but our games are different."
Lloyd, though, is receiving the same type of national attention from coaches that Schubert did when she was at Delran. This summer, Lloyd played for the New Jersey Splash, who featured mostly women who were college age and older. Lloyd was the only high school junior on the team. The Splash played Mexico’s World Cup team in an exhibition. It was considered a World Cup tune-up for the Mexicans and turned out
to be a showcase for Lloyd. She scored her team’s lone goal in a 3-1 defeat at Memorial Stadium in New Brunswick.
"It was such a thrill to sit in the stands and see her score a goal against the World Cup team," said Pam Lloyd, her mother. "Just to see her be able to stand up against that type of talent and not be intimidated was something, but to get a goal was unbelievable."
Pam Lloyd is accustomed to marveling at her daughter’s soccer accomplishments. Carli began playing at age 5, and Pam was one of the coaches in a Delran instructional program. She watched her daughter make an immediate impact. "At that age, it was coed, and Carli was hanging with the boys," Pam Lloyd recalled, laughing. "She always loved it and showed a lot of ability from an early age, but she also has always worked hard."
In addition to the goal against the World Cup team, Lloyd had other memorable moments this summer. She and Lenape’s Katie Ludwig were the only players from the seven-county South Jersey area selected to the Region 1 under-17 team, which consisted of the top players from Maine to Virginia. Lloyd went to Portland, Ore., to train for a week with the Region 1 team and then was selected to try out for the under-18 national team in November in Arizona.
"When I first made the regional team, it didn’t hit me until after I came home from Oregon," Lloyd said. "Over the previous two years, I was nervous trying to make it. This year, I finally set my heart to making the team. Now I’ll just give it my best to try to make the national team, because I realize everybody is in the same position."
Closer to home, Lloyd is intent on helping Delran contend in the difficult Burlington County League Liberty Division. The Bears are off to a 2-0 start. They opened with a 1-0 victory over Cinnaminson as Lloyd assisted on the goal. She scored two goals in a 4-0 win against Northern Burlington. Lloyd is one of the team captains, along with the Bears’ only two seniors, sweeper Ann Ryan and goalie Betsy Kennedy. "She can do anything on the field," coach Rudi Klobach said. "If you need her to score, she will. She sees the field so well and is a great passer, and she comes back and plays defense."
The only thing Lloyd can’t do is escape the comparisons with Schubert. "I have faced both of their shots, and she shoots as hard as Boo did," Kennedy said. "She doesn’t shoot as much, but I’ll tell you, I don’t enjoy facing her shots in practice. And her passing ability is unbelievable. She is one of the most unselfish players you’ll ever see."
Klobach has asked Lloyd to be a little more selfish and go for the goal more. "Her ball skills are phenomenal," he said. "There’s no doubt that she has the moves as a junior that Boo showed as a senior."
Everything seems to be happening so quickly for Lloyd, but just as she does on the soccer field, she is taking her time in surveying the situation. She would like to play Division I soccer, which appears to be a realistic goal. The letters are arriving regularly from Division I schools, and if Lloyd continues to make plays on the field — in all her levels of competition — more are sure to follow. Red0ctober22 (talk) 01:27, 7 May 2026 (UTC)
- That's so kind of you, thanks! Do you know if it's archived at the Internet Archive? The Carli Lloyd article had a link that supposedly went to such an archived page, but it was broken. OrdinaryOtter (talk) 01:31, 7 May 2026 (UTC)
- You're welcome! I went back on the article revision history and found this , which worked for me. Red0ctober22 (talk) 04:50, 7 May 2026 (UTC)
- Oops, I guess I missed that. Thanks again. 😊 OrdinaryOtter (talk) 05:04, 7 May 2026 (UTC)
