Two-time World Cup winner Carli Lloyd said that the current United States women’s national team has lost the winning mentality that once defined it after the team fell to its third-straight loss on Thursday.
The USWNT went down 2-1 to Germany at DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after an 89th-minute winner from Paula Krumbiegel that swiftly followed an 85th-minute equalizer from veteran Megan Rapinoe.
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After defeats to European champions England and Spain last month, it means the USWNT has now lost three straight games for the first time since 1993. Thursday’s loss was also the team’s first at home in more than five years.
“The winning culture and mentality that has carried on from generation to generation within the USWNT has been fizzling away,” Lloyd wrote on Twitter Friday.
“I said it when I retired. I saw it slipping away. Players have to embody that. That’s been our DNA since the 80s, but not so much anymore.”
