Alex Morgan is retiring from a brilliant 15-year professional soccer career because she's pregnant with her second child.
Alex Morgan walked into her retirement news conference Friday thinking she'd be the only player there from the San Diego Wave. She was surprised by an ovation from her teammates, who packed the first two rows. 'This is your day off!' Morgan said, clearly touched by the moment.
And they were the inspiration behind why I wanted to play soccer in the first place,' she said. Morgan has had Charlie around the Wave so much that defender Naomi Girma asked at the end of the news conference, 'Can we still bring Charlie on road trips?' Said Morgan: 'OK, well, the Charlie thing, I don't know. I mean, she has grown a liking to Hillary . Somehow she jumped to first place in the last three weeks.
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