Two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan has announced she is pregnant with her second child and is retiring from professional football.
The 35-year-old American will play her final professional match on Sunday, when her San Diego Wave side face the North Carolina Courage in the National Women's Soccer League. Morgan, considered among the best US women's national team players of all time, finished her international career with 123 goals. Morgan had a brief spell in the Women's Super League at Tottenham in 2020.
'It has been a long time coming and this decision wasn't easy, but at the beginning of 2024 I felt in my heart and soul that this was the last season that I would play soccer.' The striker was part of the US women's teams that won the World Cup in 2015 and 2019 and Olympic gold at London 2012, as well as a key figure in the Americans' off-pitch advocacy efforts and legal fight for equal pay.
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