Soccer legend Lloyd to retire after season

After 17 seasons, Carli Lloyd has decided to hang up her cleats by the end of the year.

Lloyd, 39, has scored 128 international goals — tied with Germany’s Birgit Prinz for fifth all-time in the world — over 312 games with the U.S. Women’s National Team. The WNT has gone 257-17-38 over that span and has won two World Cup titles, two Olympic gold medals and a bronze medal with her.

She holds the record for most games played in world championship events in a WNT uniform (25 World Cup games, 22 Olympic games) and is the team’s all-time leading scorer in Olympic games (10 goals). In fact, two of Lloyd’s most noteworthy goals were the game winners that secured Team USA’s gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games and the 2012 London Games. In Tokyo, she scored two goals in the bronze-medal game, which helped propel Team USA over Australia.

Lloyd plans to play four more games with the WNT through September and October, still to be announced, as well as finish out her season with the NWSL’s NY/NJ Gotham FC. The last game of Gotham FC’s season is scheduled for Oct. 31.