https://www.futbolmundial.com/ Alex Morgan, one of the greatest goal scorers and winners in U.S. Women’s National Team history and one of the most popular women’s soccer stars in the history of the global game, has officially announced her retirement from professional soccer.
Morgan, who announced today that she is pregnant with her second child, will suit up for a final professional match on Sunday, Sept. 8 when the San Diego Wave takes on the North Carolina Courage at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, Calif.
“I grew up on this team, it was so much more than soccer,” said Morgan, who came into her first USWNT training camp at the end of 2009 at age 20. “It was the friendships and the unwavering respect and support among each other, the relentless push for global investment in women’s sports, and the pivotal moments of success both on and off the field. I am so incredibly honored to have borrowed the crest for more than 15 years. I learned so much about myself in that time and so much of that is a credit to my teammates and our fans. I feel immense pride in where this team is headed, and I will forever be a fan of the USWNT. My desire for success may have always driven me, but what I got in return was more than I could have ever asked and hoped for.”
Alex Morgan will suit up for a final professional match on Sunday
Morgan, 35, concludes a legendary 15-year professional career in which she scored a voluminous number of important goals for the U.S. Women’s National Team and rose to become one of the most famous female players in the world due to her prolific scoring exploits, dynamic personality, off the field work for women’s sports and equality and non-stop winning. Her cultural impact on women’s soccer is matched by only a select few players in sports history and her inspirational interactions with her fans were second to none.
She finished her USWNT career with 123 goals, good for fifth all time, along with 53 career assists, which is ninth all-time in U.S. history. The USA’s record in matches in which Morgan played stands at 177W-15L-32D. She scored in 86 of her 224 international appearances (good for ninth all-time in U.S. history), while making 158 starts, and she captained the USA 23 times during that span. In the 86 matches in which Morgan scored the USWNT never lost, going 76W-0L-10D.
Morgan’s 176 combined goals and assists rank fifth all-time in USWNT history behind only Mia Hamm, Abby Wambach, Kristine Lilly and Carli Lloyd.
