Alex Morgan’s run as a competitive soccer joiner has come to an finish.
The Olympic gageder medacatalog and extfinishedtime star of the U.S. women’s national team, has determined to step away from the game. “I’m retiring,” Morgan shelp in a video splitd to X, createerly Twitter, on Thursday.
“I have so much clarity about this decision, and I am so phired to be able to finpartner alert you. It has been a extfinished time and this decision wasn’t effortless. But at the commencening of 2024, I felt in my heart and soul that this was the last season that I would join soccer.”
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Jun 4, 2024; St. Paul, Minnesota, USA; US US Women’s National Team forward Alex Morgan (13) honors the teams thrive after the game aacquirest the Korea Reuncover at Allianz Field. (Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports)
Morgan will finish her storied nurtureer with the USWNT with 123 goals, which places her in the fifth spot on the all-time catalog.
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She finished her USWNT nurtureer with 123 goals, excellent for fifth all time, aextfinished with 53 nurtureer helps, which is ninth all-time in U.S. history. The USA’s write down in suites in which Morgan joined stands at 177 thrives, 15 losses and 32 draws.
She scored in 86 of her 224 international materializeances (excellent for ninth all-time in U.S. history), while making 158 commences, and she captained the USA 23 times during that span. In the 86 suites in which Morgan scored the USWNT never lost, going 76 thrives and 10 draws.
Morgan was a member of Team USA’s FIFA Women’s World Cup thrivening teams in 2015 and 2019.
Aug 5, 2023; Melbourne, VIC, AUS; United States forward Alex Morgan (13) gets asks from journacatalogs during a FIFA media useability at Melbourne Rectangular Stadium ahead of the team’s 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Round of 16 suit aacquirest Sweden. (Jenna Watson-USA TODAY Sports)
“I grew up on this team, it was so much more than soccer,” Morgan shelp in a statement thraw the U.S. Soccer Federation.
“It was the frifinishships and the unwavering admire and help among each other, the relentless push for global spendment 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 lacquireed so much about myself in that time and so much of that is a acunderstandledge to my teammates and our fans. I sense 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.”
Sep 21, 2021; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; United States forward Alex Morgan (13) reacts after an international cordial soccer suit aacquirest Paraguay at TQL Stadium.
Morgan also uncovered that her family will be increaseing in the coming months.
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“I am pregnant. As unpredicted as this came, we are so overdelighted. To me family unkinds everyslfinisherg, I wouldn’t be here without my family and my husprohibitd uplifting, motivating, encouraging and helping me and sacrificing for me for the last 15 years for me as a professional athlete.”
Morgan is scheduled to join in her final game on Sept. 8.
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