The 31-year-old told the BBC World Service: As a soccer player we would all rather play on grass fields. My biggest concern is the injuries.Lloyd's anger is shared by her team-mate and 2012 Fifa World Player of the Year Abby Wambach who spoke out on Twitter. She added: "It takes several weeks to recover from playing on [artificial] turf. It's bad on your joints, not to mention all those rubber pellets.However, Lloyd, who scored the Olympic gold medal-winning goals for the US in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012, has not given up hope that the decision can be reversed. I hope that we, as players, can do something - as well as other countries and federations and just let Fifa know that we're not really too happy about this decision.Those pellets are there to help you slide, sometimes in the grass there's no rubber pellets and your foot can get stuck and that's when injuries can happen.I've still got a lot more in me. Obviously I want to bring home the 2015 World Cup. That's kind of a major thing, I will do anything to become a World Cup champion, she added. I just don't want soccer getting to that point where everybody's playing on artificial turf"
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