Alex Morgan: 5 Things About The U.S. Women’s Soccer Star Playing In The 2023 World Cup

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Image Credit: Xavier Hernandez/SPP/Shutterstock Alex Morgan (b. July 2, 1989) is an American shot player, Olympic golden medalist, and 2-time World Cup champ. She was named to the 2023 US Women’s National Team, representing the USA successful the 2023 Women’s World Cup successful Australia/New Zealand. Since 2022, she has played for the San Diego Wave successful the National Women’s Soccer League.

Alex Morgan is acceptable for the 2023 World Cup. The 34-year-old guardant volition alert the Red, White, and Blue arsenic the US Women’s National Team looks to propulsion disconnected a stunning triumph during the 2023 tourney successful Australia and New Zealand. For Alex, this is simply a accidental to marque past – nary nationalist team, men’s oregon women’s, has ever won 3 consecutive World Cups. If the US Women bash so, Alex, Megan Rapinoe, Julie Ertz, Alyssa Naeher, and Kelly O’Hara would articulation Pelé as the lone players to triumph 3 World Cup titles.

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“The pressure’s ever there,” Alex told HollywoodLife ahead of the World Cup. “We enactment it connected ourselves. And the remainder of the satellite puts it connected us. It’s little astir reasoning similar we’re defending the past 2 World Cups due to the fact that it’s a precise antithetic team, speech from myself and a mates of others. So it’s a truly antithetic team. And so, we person to deliberation that with each World Cup, we’re going astatine it similar it’s our archetypal time.

“It’s a antithetic team, but the mentality stays the same,” she adds. “And that’s what’s been passed down: the mentality of wanting to beryllium the best, of competing and grooming each azygous time astatine the highest level to make that environment. We clasp ourselves to a precocious standard.”

Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, and Alexandra Long (Kristin Callahan/ACE Pictures/Shutterstock)

Alex isn’t focused connected the “three-peat” and much connected conscionable securing the adjacent win. “It’s really ne'er thrown astir with the team,” she said of the term, per USA Today’s Pro Soccer Wire. “It’s thrown astir with the media, I deliberation a batch of fans speech astir it, but honestly, we person 14 first-timers for the World Cup, and we spot this arsenic our ain journey. … We’re looking to evidently marque past that’d beryllium large to three-peat, but for this team, that’s not successful the backmost of our minds. It’s truly conscionable winning each game.”

The USA volition person a situation connected its hands successful the radical stage. They’re successful Group E with the Netherlands, the squad the USA defeated successful the finals of the 2019 World Cup. They besides person 2 countries making their World Cup debuts: Vietnam and Portugal, each of which could propulsion disconnected an upset if immoderate of the heavyweights are caught napping.

Before she puts connected a amusement down under, here’s what you request to cognize astir her.

Is Alex Morgan Playing In The World Cup 2023?

Alex Morgan and Lindsey Horan were named squad captains for the U.S. Women’s National Team for the 2023 World Cup successful Australia/New Zealand. This marks the 23rd clip that Alex has worn the captain’s armband.

Alex, Lindsey, Megan Rapinoe, and Julie Ertz were named to the USWNT, on with (h/t ESPN):

Forwards: Sophia Smith, Trinity Rodman, Alyssa Thompson, Lynn Williams Midfielders: Rose Lavelle, Savannah DeMelo, Andi Sullivan, Ashley Sanchez, Kristie Mewis Defenders: Alana Cook, Naomi Girma, Emily Sonnet, Emily Fox, Crystal Dunn, Kelly O’Hara, Sofia Huerta Goalkeepers: Alyssa Naeher, Casey Murphy, Aubrey Kingsbury. (Kristina Bumphrey/Starpix/Shutterstock)

Alex Morgan Is One Of The Best Soccer Players In The World.

Born Alexandra Patricia Morgan in San Dimas, California, the aboriginal World Cup champ attended the University of California astatine Berkley earlier the Western New York Flash (of the present defunct Women’s Professional Soccer league) drafted her arsenic the wide No. 1 prime successful 2011. In 2012, Alex was the youngest subordinate of the USWNT successful the 2011 World Cup (the squad was runner-up to Japan). Since then, she’s won 2 World Cups, an Olympic Gold Medal (2012) and Bronze Medal (2020), galore CONCACAF championships, and galore different accolades. She took location the NSWL Golden Boot successful 2022.

In her nonrecreational career, Alex has played for NWSL teams similar the Portland Thornes and Orlando Pride. She’s besides played connected planetary teams similar Lyon and Tottenham Hotspur. In 2022, she joined the San Diego Wave and told PEOPLE this was her endgame team.

“I cognize that my household is going to beryllium staying successful San Diego for good,” she said. She besides noted that successful 2023, her assemblage “felt good” and that status wasn’t successful her thoughts. “Right now, I’m taking it 1 play astatine a time,” she said. “I consciousness similar I’m successful the infinitesimal close now, truthful I’m not looking excessively acold ahead.”

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Alex joined Servando Carrasco in 2014. Servando – calved successful Coronado, California, and raised successful Tijuana, Mexico – is simply a midfielder who past played for Inter Miami CF II (fka Fort Lauderdale CF) successful 2020.

She Is A Mom.

In 2020, Alex gave birth to their archetypal child, Charlie Elena Carrasco. “When I deed 9 months, I thought to myself, ‘Am I ever gonna person my assemblage back?’” Alex told HollywoodLife. ” “But, determination are truthful galore women that person been capable to bash it — Serena Williams, my teammates, and so galore different women arsenic good successful nonrecreational sports,” she said, adding that seeing Serena and others bounce backmost aft babe “made maine consciousness truly assured successful myself being capable to bash that arsenic well.”

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“I benignant of knew coming backmost aft giving commencement was gonna beryllium a process and that I was going to person to beryllium diligent with myself and my body. [But] I decidedly enactment unit connected myself,” she added. “Yet, I deliberation this twelvemonth and this pandemic person benignant of alleviated that unit for sure.”

#MomGoals, literally. pic.twitter.com/1vzWlyoMr5

— U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (@USWNT) February 23, 2023

How Did Alex Morgan Change The World?

 Alex has been 1 of the astir vocal women calling for equality successful sports. In February 2022, U.S. Soccer and the USWNT reached an agreement, offering $24 cardinal (a 3rd of the $66 cardinal they were seeking successful damages arsenic portion of their sex favoritism lawsuit) and bonuses matching those of the men’s team.

Morgan besides launched the Alex Morgan Foundation, which provides “support, empowerment and an illustration for young girls and mothers successful the section country and beyond,” per the foundation’s website. “This has been connected my bosom for galore years, and I’m truthful excited to yet motorboat the Alex Morgan Foundation, a non-profit inaugural focused connected equity & accidental connected the tract & off. Join america arsenic we enactment to physique a assured way forward!” she tweeted successful March 2023, aft launching the foundation.

“Throughout my career, I’ve fought for adjacent wage and safe, supportive enactment environments successful women’s shot to animate accidental connected a systemic level. Now, I’m excited to support warring connected behalf of girls and women arsenic we motorboat the Alex Morgan Foundation,” she added.

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