Carli Lloyd started the scoring in the U.S.-Chile World Cup game Sunday with an absolute missile of a goal, and then celebrated with a gesture more suited to Pebble Beach than a soccer stadium in Paris.
Perhaps mindful of the controversy that engulfed the U.S. team after it repeatedly and joyfully celebrated goal after goal after goal in a 13-0 shellacking of Thailand in its World Cup opener last week, Lloyd and her teammates exchanged hugs and congrats. Then she turned and offered a genteel golf clap.
In case the point was missed, she did it after scoring her second goal of the match, too.