Lloyd, Armas, Rimando, Harvey and Abbott elected to U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame
Associated PressFRISCO, Texas — Carli Lloyd, Chris Armas, Nick Rimando and Mary Harvey were elected Tuesday to the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame along with former Major League Soccer executive Mark Abbott, and will be inducted on May 3. Lloyd, who scored a hat trick that boosted the U.S. over Japan in the 2015 World Cup final, was on the ballot for the first time and received 47 of 48 votes for 97.9% from the player selection committee. The 42-year-old Lloyd scored 134 goals, third in U.S. women’s history behind Abby Wambach’s 184 and Mia Hamm’s 158, and made 316 appearances, second to Kristine Lilly’s 354. Chris Wondolowski was third in the player vote in his first ballot appearance, followed by Lori Chalupny and Amy Rodriguez, Cat Reddick Whitehill, Keith Johnson, Kyle Beckerman, Chris Ahrens, Dwayne DeRosario, Jermaine Jones, Oguchi Onyewu, Robbie Keane, Chad Marshall, Maurice Edu and Stephanie Lopez Cox, Carlos Ruiz and Shalrie Joseph and Matt Besler and Yael Averbuch.
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