Kristine lilly biography

This week's installment of U.S. Soccer's ongoing 90-Year Anniversary Articles Series is a look at the "Ironwoman" of U.S. Soccer, Kristine Lilly. Lillyhas amassed a record 249 caps, by far the most ever - male or female - in the history of international soccer, since debuting in just the 16th game in Women's National Team history.

And if it seems like Lilly has almost always been on the field for the U.S., that's because she almost has been - missing a mere 31 games in the 280 games played since her debut in 1987.

Kristine Lilly celebrated her 100th cap for the United States in the second-floor lounge of a second-rate hotel in Campinas, Brazil, surrounded by 1970s décor and several greasy sacks full of McDonald’s hamburgers and french fries, which in Campinas, a non-descript city about 60 miles north of Sao Paulo, might have been the high-end option for American cuisine.

But her teammates were there (they got her a cake) and that’s all that Lilly has