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The effort to hold back tears before starting her acceptance speech with FIFA Coins  a quiet "Sorry" to the applauding audience took her somewhere new."I'm not a super emotional person," she said. "I'm pretty tough and raw in my nature but something like that, it's uncontrollable.

"I never really believed I could reach this point, though I was striving for it. I'm extremely humbled."A 13-minute hat trick in the World Cup final earned three VIP tickets: The red-carpet FIFA event followed the team's ticker-tape parade in downtown Manhattan last July and a trip to the White House in October. Lloyd and Wambach flanked President Barack Obama in the team photograph."I've gotten used to the glitz and glamor world that comes with it," Lloyd said, before adding: "It's never an enjoyable night to wear heels. 

I'd rather be in my soccer cleats, but it's fun."Lloyd is quickly back in uniform this week at a training camp in Los Angeles to prepare for Olympic qualifying matches. No women's team has taken Olympic gold one year after winning the World Cup."My 2015 is good but 2016 needs to be even better," said Lloyd, who will marry long-term partner.

Brian Hollins after the Olympics.The same is true of women's soccer, which could emerge from the chaos of FIFA's corruption crisis as a big winner.One year ago, Wambach came to Zurich as a nominee and met with FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke.