Carli Lloyd says chance at Women's World Cup history won't faze USWNT: 'It's in the DNA'

Two-time World Cup champion Carli Lloyd talks Megan Rapinoe's last World Cup, Sophia Smith and Team USA being favorites at the 2023 World Cup.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: The U.S. women’s national soccer team has a chance to make history at the 2023 Women’s World Cup.

It’s been a major storyline for months as four teams have gone back-to-back defending their World Cup title, but none has ever secured the sacred three-peat.

With the Women’s World Cup beginning in Australia and New Zealand on Thursday, the pressure is high for the USWNT, as the obvious favorites, to win it all again.

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Carli Lloyd attends the FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Brand launch at the Griffith Observatory on May 17, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Katelyn Mulcahy/FIFA via Getty Images)

Despite the expectations, Carli Lloyd, a USWNT legend who helped win two World Cups and two Olympic gold medals during her illustrious career, thinks the women from the U.S. will be calm and collected entering this major tournament. 

"I would say it’s business as usual," Lloyd told Fox News Digital while promoting FanDuel's support of the USWNT by teaming up with a female-owned roastery, North Edge Craft Coffee, to launch FanFuel Extra Kick Coffee for the World Cup. "I would say that the approach is always the U.S. is favorites, No. 1 team in the world. Everybody wants to go out there and beat them. There’s a target on their back."

"They’re most likely not even talking about a three-peat or really talking about the history that they can potentially make. Everybody just knows that. They know that in the back of their minds, what’s at stake."

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