The decision was not easy, but at the beginning of 2024, I felt in my heart that this is my last season as I will play football. Football has been a part of my life for 30 years. It was my first big love, says Alex Morgan in a video she published on social media.
A bit into the video, Morgan also reveals that she is expecting her second child. In the spring of 2020, she and her husband Servando Carrasco, a former football pro, became parents to their daughter Charlie.
"Extremely proud"
We are super happy. For me, family means everything. I would never have reached this far without my husband and my family, she says.
Morgan says she is proud of how she has contributed to the development of women's football and that girls can now dream of becoming football pros.
The other day, Charlie told me that she wants to become a football player when she grows up. It made me extremely proud. Not because I wish for her to become a football player, but because there is a path to become a football player now that even a four-year-old can see. And we paved the way, says a moved Alex Morgan.
Morgan has scored 123 goals in 224 national team matches for the USA and won two World Championship titles (2015, 2019) and one Olympic Games gold (2012). With that goal tally, she is the fifth-highest goal scorer of all time in the national team – a list topped by Abby Wambach with 184 goals. Apart from two short stints in Lyon and Tottenham, she has played her entire career in the American NWSL league.
No Olympic Games this summer
After returning from a foot injury in the spring, Morgan was selected for the USA's training national team matches against South Korea in early June, but she was rejected from the Olympic Games squad by the new national team coach Emma Hayes.
Her last appearance in the national team was thus the 62 minutes Morgan got to play against South Korea on June 4. On Sunday, night to Monday Swedish time, she will play her last match in her career with her club team San Diego at home against North Carolina.
Corrected: In an earlier version, the wrong year was stated for the Olympic Games gold.
