This is Alex Morgan's first World Cup as a mother, but she's in good company. Two other members of Vlatko Andonovski's 23-player roster, Crystal Dunn and Julie Ertz, are in the same boat.
, are in the same boat. All three veterans of the USA's 2019 World Cup triumph started the U.S. team's first game at the 2022 Women's World Cup — the first time three moms have appeared in a match for the U.S. at soccer's biggest event at the same time.There's a lot to navigate for all of them. For world-class athletes competing at the absolute highest level of their sport, finding that work-life balance is sometimes difficult, if not impossible.
"I think time to her is a little still confusing," Morgan said."But I got her calendar to have a countdown on when she's coming, and I think she gets a lot of it. But she's never once asked why I'm not there. She asks when I'm going to see her. It's the life of a professional athlete with a family.
As they have been in other areas, members of the women's national team have been at the forefront of this evolution.
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