Carli Lloyd became a World Cup hero when she secured a hat trick in the U.S. women's team win over Japan in July. So it should come as no surprise that she knows how to strike — and strike hard.
Lloyd's latest shot on goal? A guest editorial for the New York Times, in which the USWNT star outlines the motivation behind the women's team's wage-discrimination complaint brought against U.S. Soccer.
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"Simply put, we're sick of being treated like second-class citizens," Lloyd writes.