What a run it’s been
Alex Morgan of the United States looks on before playing Brazil in the Concacaf W Gold Cup final at Snapdragon Stadium on Sunday, March 10, 2024 in San Diego, CA. So it’s only fitting she now ends her playing career with a well-timed finish.
She netted several memorable goals with two World Cup champions and an Olympic champion. In club soccer, she won the inaugural National Women’s Soccer League title with the 2013 Portland Thorns. By then, the 23-year-old Morgan was already “the face of U.S. Soccer” in the view of one national-squad star.
On a personal level, she connected with hundreds of girls who, seeing her and others on the increasingly popular U.S. team, aspired to earn soccer scholarships and play professionally.Barcenas was 10 when she attended a USWNT match in Mission Valley and coaxed Morgan into giving her a jersey after calling to her from the stands.
Morgan responded with perhaps her finest year of soccer. She scored a league-high 15 goals as the 2022 Wave became the NWSL’s first expansion team to reach the playoffs. In addition, she scored the game-winning goal of the club’s first playoff game, exciting a large crowd in Mission Valley, and performed well with the national team.
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